I dunno, they might see their fleet reliability go up massively without you!

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I dunno, they might see their fleet reliability go up massively without you!
From what I've read so far, it seems one of the units entered the section/single line without authority due to poor rail adhesion. So basically it quite literally slid through the protection point and into the other train.Redirect Left wrote: 22 Oct 2024 03:49 Exactly what happened will take a while to establish of course, but it appears both trains were Transport for Wales services running class 158s.
This is certainly what the RAIB are suggesting from their preliminary statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coll ... mmediatelyGeo Ghost wrote: 26 Oct 2024 10:37 From what I've read so far, it seems one of the units entered the section/single line without authority due to poor rail adhesion. So basically it quite literally slid through the protection point and into the other train.
Although, unlike the Salisbury crash, where the RHTT did not run, the RHTT in this instance ran as booked, and I'm led to believe jetted everything without issue.Geo Ghost wrote: 26 Oct 2024 10:37 On the face of it, it seems almost identical to incident at Salisbury in 2021.
Certainly seems that way from reading what a lot of GWR drivers, in particular, are saying.Geo Ghost wrote: 26 Oct 2024 10:37 Even more interesting is that both incidents involved a class 158 and I've heard mutters about them being notoriously bad in low adhesion conditions. Although how true that is of course remains to be seen.
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