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Royal Duchy 2015

Discussie in 'What's Going On' gestart door Hemerdon, 12 jun 2015.

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  1. Big Al

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    So Hemerdon is now added to the list of banks on the network that have taken down Tangmere. :(
     
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    Unit was the stewards description by the way - will be interesting to see how they fit everyone in depending on what it actually is.
     
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  3. Pete Thornhill

    Pete Thornhill Resident of Nat Pres Staff Member Administrator Moderator Friend

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    Forgot to say Diesel attached and underway back to Plymouth.
     
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  4. EveningStar92220

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    Either way many very unhappy passengers I suspect!
     
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  5. father_jack

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    1L36 2000 PLY-PAD FGW HST being held, expected to leave 2100, stop order for Yatton.
     
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  6. Big Al

    Big Al Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator

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    It's at a time such as this that you do begin to realise how accommodating TOCs can be over problems not of their making. So the FGW 1725 Penzance to London service was stuck behind the charter and it'll be back in Paddington an hour down at best. FGW then allows one of their other services to be held an hour so as to get the charter people home resulting in that getting to Paddington around 1 am. assuming of course it goes all the way.

    Never mind the reason for all this, isn't that an example of the railway at its best? So that makes the TOC rescue tally of Tangmere two - first it was SWT (the Winchfield incident) and now FGW.
     
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    Well said Al


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    1725 PZ-PAD 1A98 85 late leaving PLY. Misses everyone's last tube at Paddington. Big bill for WCRC ??? RTT saying railtour got back in 2100.
     
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    Yes, Big Al, it is. But you can't "never mind the reason". BR (W) load book says 252 tons for a Light Pacific on Hemerdon. Nice to see that the spirit of adventure is not dead, and someone thought 300 would be OK, ignoring the silly old fogeys of 1960s Paddington. Pity, to quote the great DCI Gene Hunt from Life On Mars, that it staggered along "like a spastic in a magnet factory", but every cloud has a silver lining...when was the last main line charter hauled by an 08? Almost as exciting as being banked out of section by a coal train.

    The essence of comedy is timing. I wonder what the new "Independent" Non-Exec Director of WCR, as called for by NR as a condition of restoring their licence, will make of it.
     
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    Who's idea was it to leave the diesel in Bristol....how many banks has Tangmere stalled on now ? much be approaching double figures.
     
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  11. KentYeti

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    And here is the other Tangmere on Hemerdon last year!

     
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    Last year Tangmere took 9 up Hemerdon with no problem, although I'm not saying Tangmere should. I would have thought railhead conditions were good and she seemed to be going well, looking at a video on Youtube, approaching Tavistock Junction. My wife said Tangmere was not going very fast past our house near the bottom of the climb. I was at Newton Abbot waiting!
     
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  13. Big Al

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    Let's not get into a silly debate over this incident. Tangmere has managed 9 before (and easily on the occasion I am thinking of), so, on paper, there was nothing to suggest that there would have been a problem today provided that it hit the bottom at speed, which I believe it did.

    Something clearly went wrong. In time we will know what. I suspect the crew and support crew will not be particularly pleased so let's spare a thought for them. Fortunately, as I said earlier, FGW has done the good thing and helped out the passengers who may actually not be back home much later than they would have been had the charter made it over Hemerdon.
     
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    Not a silly debate when they were ment to take the 47,
     
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  15. Big Al

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    If you say so then I bow to your knowledge of WCRC operations. Clearly, on the day, someone on the operating side thought differently.
     
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    Why the '"Independent "'?
     
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    I was on that (front window r/h side - those were the days!) and it was awesome. Clearly something else went wrong today as if it had simply stalled, surely the easiest thing to do would be to push it over the top and send it on its way, not tow it back to Plymouth and terminate it.
     
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    Looks like it has this evening, at, er,... Hemerdon of all places.
     
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    I saw it at Hemerdon, and it looked a pretty sorry sight. Excessive black smoke was reported by folk who saw it leave Plymouth. On approaching Hemerdon and giving loads of black smoke it ground to a halt and didn't make a second attempt. Make of that what you will. It got dragged back towards Plymouth. I feel the future of railtours west of Newton Abbot may be in doubt after this - but that's just an opinion. I hope not.
     
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  20. EveningStar92220

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    And then there's Dainton and if it had done the same on there its even further away from rescue.
     
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