Slightly off-topic, but I read the article in Metro today (pg3) Branson.
They mentioned that the Pendolinos running on the London - North Wales route
was cancelled on it's first day, so "old-fashioned diesel" alternatives were
used. This seems somewhat misleading - isn't the Holyhead route
non-electrified? Don't Virgin plan to run diesels (ie Pendolino+Class 57)
on this route anyway?

Slightly off-topic, but I read the article in Metro today (pg3) Branson.
They mentioned that the Pendolinos running on the London - North Wales route
was cancelled on it's first day, so "old-fashioned diesel" alternatives were
used. This seems somewhat misleading - isn't the Holyhead route
non-electrified? Don't Virgin plan to run diesels (ie Pendolino+Class 57)
on this route anyway?

The way that I understood it was that the Pendelino + Class 57 did fail on it
first advertised trip and passengers had to continue part of their journey on
an 'old fashioned diesel'.

Burkey

Andy Wyatt wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but I read the article in Metro today (pg3)
Branson. They mentioned that the Pendolinos running on the London -
North Wales route was cancelled on it's first day, so
"old-fashioned diesel" alternatives were used. This seems somewhat
misleading - isn't the Holyhead route non-electrified? Don't
Virgin plan to run diesels (ie Pendolino+Class 57) on this route
anyway?

Yes, you're right, and it was a fault on the 57+Pendolino combination
that led to the train being cancelled. Passengers had to get another
(conventional diesel) service to Chester, and another one to Crewe. I
read a similar report on BBC News Online, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/3692886.stm.

The BBC site has a photo captioned "The Pendolino arriving at Llandudno
for the first time". Unfortunately, it's a photo of a (Super?) Voyager.
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Richard J.
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Yes, you're right, and it was a fault on the 57+Pendolino combination
that led to the train being cancelled. Passengers had to get another
(conventional diesel) service to Chester, and another one to Crewe. I
read a similar report on BBC News Online, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/3692886.stm.

AIUI it was not possible to couple the ETS (Electric Train Supply) between
the locomotive and the Pendolino. Although the Pendolino has two ETS jumpers
(for redundancy) the 57 only has one. The same problem occurred last night
at Crewe with the down train, resulting in a Mark III stock formation and
locomotive being substituted, which returned this morning on the up train. A
Pendolino was booked to make the down journey again this evening - let's
hope that they have managed to resolve the problems!

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:48:24 +0000 (UTC), "Andy Wyatt"
wrote:

Slightly off-topic, but I read the article in Metro today (pg3) Branson.
They mentioned that the Pendolinos running on the London - North Wales route
was cancelled on it's first day, so "old-fashioned diesel" alternatives were
used. This seems somewhat misleading - isn't the Holyhead route
non-electrified? Don't Virgin plan to run diesels (ie Pendolino+Class 57)
on this route anyway?


Yep. They're being dragged from Crewe.
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