On Nov 11, 4:12*pm, "Mizter T" wrote:
"Neil Williams" wrote:
Actually, scratch that:-

"East Midlands Trains services can now run between London St Pancras
International and Luton / Bedford"

So they're going to be quite busy, then. *Time to hire in some
locomotives and stock to ensure everything is 10-car?

That's almost suggestive of it being an OHLE power issue (EMT having diesel
traction of course) rather than a signalling issue - though I'd be wary of
jumping to that conclusion just yet - perhaps they've hashed the signalling
together enough to be able to run a service on the fast lines, who knows?

At 13:00 or so today there was an EMT 222 stopped and idling at Mill
Hill Broadway on the Up Fast line with its doors open ... Not quite
believing my luck at EMT finally running a commuter service to Mill
Hill after all these years I went over to the station to have a look
and the reason became apparent - there wasn't a single lit signal
visible in either direction (and one should be able to see 6 signals
from there - two blocks to the north and one to the south).

At around 14:30 an HST rolled along the down fast at about 10 mph and
at around 16:00 a 222 went through on the down fast at near enough
line speed (there may well have been a few trains in-between when I
wasn't looking out of the office window...); as of 16:30, FCC were
still not running any trains through Mill Hill.