Yesterday everything had gone horribly wrong before I
booked on, a train had gone defective at LEY WB, it turned out the ATP
controller had failed which meant it wasn’t going to move in ATO or CM so Wood
Lane decided that the best thing to do was go to BEG in RM then reverse back
over the crossover, a 6.5km trip at 15kph. My first half was a simple LES-EAB-WHC
but my train had been put away in WHC sidings so I was told to go there, bring
it out on the EB and hand it over to whoever was relieving me for my meal
break.
That would have worked fine except with the delays and
disruption it took me about an hour and 15 minutes to get to WHC. I
arrived 20 minutes after I was due to come out of the sidings and just over
half an hour before I was due to pick up my second half which was possibly the
only train running on time. So my first train stayed in the sidings, I
had the shortest allowable meal break and picked up my second half,
WHC-NOR-LOU-NOA-HAI via NEP and then back on the cushions to LES.
When I reached NOR I was told to extend up to WER where
the train would be taken off me, turned into another train, wait for the train that mine had been turned into and make that into my one. When I got to WER the train I was to take over was at
TCR WB and by the time I eventually left WER I should have been at TCR EB. When I reached RUG the
platform indicators showed the train as only going to NOR, I called up
Wood Lane who said they’d spotted the mistake and I was to go to LES but
shortly after they’d shortened the trip even further to LIS.
That all went perfectly, I went into the sidings at LIS
and came out on the WB back on time. I wasn’t too late getting to NOA but
delays going back EB meant that when I was due to hand over at HAI I was only
just arriving at LES. Fortunately the
TOp who was meant to be taking me off at HAI had only started their meal break
so a spare had been sent to take me off and run the train round to WOO via HAI so after
all that I got away a little earlier than expected.
Which was nice.
Any comment on your two colleagues and their contretemps,that I've just read about on the Huffington post?
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