British Voyager in the ballast

andel · Post by **andel** » 30 Aug 2007 16:10

A voyager has taken up bouncing and fell off the track

Pictures here: http://southwestrailways.fotopic.net/c1338277.html

Many thanks to 50044 on WNXX

Go on then - discuss!

Parkey · Post by **Parkey** » 30 Aug 2007 16:21

Obviously a lack of vertical integration... between wheel and rail. Horizontal too.

andel · Post by **andel** » 30 Aug 2007 16:24

Parkey wrote:Obviously a lack of vertical integration... between wheel and rail. Horizontal too.

horizontal or vertical - which one?

Quick! Quick! Quick! I'm timing you!

Argh! Tooo late!

m3henry · Post by **m3henry** » 30 Aug 2007 16:45

would it have anything to do with the catch point?

andel · Post by **andel** » 30 Aug 2007 16:57

Yes, it was doing an ECS move as 5E49 and it SPAD'd - got caught by the catch points.

Parkey · Post by **Parkey** » 30 Aug 2007 17:41

andel wrote:Argh! Tooo late!

Sorry, was cycling home.

I'd say first one, then the other.

Post by **Dave** » 30 Aug 2007 18:56

Any reason to the cause of the SPAD?

I assume the driver is now sharing his bed with a horse's head, mafia style?

andel · Post by **andel** » 30 Aug 2007 19:15

I suspect he just mis-read or didn't see the shunt signal properly...

m3henry · Post by **m3henry** » 30 Aug 2007 19:56

should I have put a :wink: or a :roll: next to my question?

Parkey · Post by **Parkey** » 30 Aug 2007 20:25

That's a famous railway book isn't it? Catch point 22

Oh the wit...

Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 30 Aug 2007 21:14

Similar thing happened a while ago here - an Endeavour DMU had just finished an overhaul of the brakes, and the driver/shunter/guard left the brake off, and she rolled away, straight towards the main and went right through the catch points and ended up in the dirt. Was a little embarrassing to go past the maintenance centre and see the thing sitting in the dirt, especially considering it had just had work done too...

Post by **Dave** » 30 Aug 2007 22:29

When the Pendolinos were first introduced there were some real problems at a couple of terminii in terms of the brakes.

I believe one Pendolino was scuffed and completely destroyed a set of buffers at Liverpool Lime Street, even though the driver had correctly reacted and had braked as per his training.

The driver is still probably out on his ear though. Its rare to see the catchpoints employed for a passenger train.

MjD · Post by **MjD** » 04 Sep 2007 13:39

Seems we are jumping (no pun intended) on the bandwagon up here aswell.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 976017.stm

Another de-railment

MD

Train-a-Mania · Post by **Train-a-Mania** » 04 Sep 2007 20:36

Andel, what happened to the pictures?

andel · Post by **andel** » 04 Sep 2007 21:42

removed pending rail investigations

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