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| ECML signal failure 26/27 March 27/03/2011 at 13:59 #2677 | |
bill_gensheet
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As those at the meet found out, York - Northallerton was not a good place to be travelling on Saturday http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-12871897 Any ideas on why the GC was stranded and needed a ladder evacuation ? Not even a 10mph crawl to the nearest platform. Does this mean that anything on the slow lines was stuck even once the main lines began to move ? Glad Postal got home, even if it was to a closed-up pub ! Bill Log in to reply |
| ECML signal failure 26/27 March 27/03/2011 at 13:59 #14405 | |
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bill_gensheet
1408 posts |
As those at the meet found out, York - Northallerton was not a good place to be travelling on Saturday http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-12871897 Any ideas on why the GC was stranded and needed a ladder evacuation ? Not even a 10mph crawl to the nearest platform. Does this mean that anything on the slow lines was stuck even once the main lines began to move ? Glad Postal got home, even if it was to a closed-up pub ! Bill Log in to reply |
| ECML signal failure 26/27 March 27/03/2011 at 14:29 #14408 | |
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Insulfrog3
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When I went to Peterborough last Wednesday (23rd march), there was a signal failure at York, which caused upto an hour delay when trains reached Grantham and Peterborough.
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| ECML signal failure 26/27 March 27/03/2011 at 15:30 #14420 | |
postal
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Report from another (usually reliable) discussion forum pasted below: Just after 1pm yesterday York North w/stn reported a complete loss of signalling between York and Northallerton. S&T were summoned, whilst Temporary Block Working (TBW) was being setup. At 1.40 S&T reported the cause to be a defective power supply on the B system signalling processors within York IECC. The component was changed restoring the signalling at 2.25, which promptly failed again. Further investigations found that system ‘A’ system PSU had then failed and the system switched to the B system as its supposed to switched to the ‘B’ system for reasons unknown again crapped out. As a result of the above two panel processor modules on interlocking areas 1 & 5 blew. At 3.45 the ‘B’ system was restored with a number of components borrowed from Tyneside although just after 4pm it died again. A full rebuild (thats computertech speak for reinstalling the software, not physically rebuilding the 'puter) of the ‘B’ system computer was carried out and an attempt made to restore the signalling undertaken at by 6pm. It didnt work. . Computer Specialists were requested (no doubt screamed at) to attend to assist in the fault finding. The ‘A’ system was rebuilt restoring the signalling at 6.30. Trapped trains were released and routes unclamped from 7pm. “In life, there is always someone out there, who won’t like you, for whatever reason, don’t let the insecurities in their lives affect yours.” – Rashida Rowe Log in to reply |
| ECML signal failure 26/27 March 31/03/2011 at 11:49 #14617 | |
outofsection
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... all of which more than bears out a saying I learnt over 30 years ago when I first became a computer engineer..."to err is human: but to REALLY foul things up, it takes a computer!" Glad I wasn't attending that fault!! Many a night I've laboured away most of the night on site doing Unix operating system rebuilds. It was not something I ever became fond of! After the rebuild came the hours of adding & configuring the numerous hardware devices (mainly TTY devices e.g. Wyse 50 terminals) followed by seemingly endless rounds of re-linking the kernel. This was followed by a considerable amount of time spent watching wood warp whilst the client's programs & data were restored from backup tapes - if the tapes were readable that is! Sometimes they weren't - and that's when the REAL fun began! Do I miss those days? What do you think? Log in to reply |