Huge delay on last night's Caledonian Sleeper (13 Jan)

[Trainfan2019]

Caledonian sleeper from Euston currently 351 minutes late at Stafford. Is this the latest it's ever been? Anyone know why it's so late? Thanks.

 

[Cross City]

Caledonian sleeper from Euston currently 351 minutes late at Stafford. Is this the latest it's ever been? Anyone know why it's so late? Thanks.

Massive overhead line problems at Penkridge

 

[norbitonflyer]

Caledonian sleeper from Euston currently 351 minutes late at Stafford. Is this the latest it's ever been? Anyone know why it's so late? Thanks.

No indication as to the cause of the delay, but it was routed via Bescot last night and took six hours to cover the 2.5 miles betweeen Portobello Junction and Bushbury Junction (near Wolverhamption)

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Massive overhead line problems at Penkridge

Why was it routed that way, instead of its usual route via the Trent Valley line?

 

[Mag_seven]

Why was it routed that way, instead of its usual route via the Trent Valley line?

Planned engineering work on the Trent Valley route.

 

[Gonzoiku]

Caledonian sleeper from Euston currently 351 minutes late at Stafford. Is this the latest it's ever been? Anyone know why it's so late? Thanks.

Twitter from Caledonian Sleeper blamed overhead line equipment failure. I note the up Highlander was delayed about 2 hours at Preston - could that be because the driver was trapped on the down Lowlander at Stafford?

GZ

 

[Bald Rick]

Strictly speaking a power supply problem, not a problem with the OLE as such.

 

[norbitonflyer]

Strictly speaking a power supply problem, not a problem with the OLE as such.

RTT says it was terminated at Preston at 0932. Passengers for Edinburgh presumably put on the 0953 but not sure about Glasgow as the 0941 was itself delayed by 40 minutes

 

[12LDA28C]

Another incredible 'journey of a nighttime'... and daytime.

 

[Trainfan2019]

Thanks for the information everyone. Sounds like the same problem as affected my train to Crewe this morning. Can imagine some very frustrated passengers.

 

[zero]

Well it appears not to be their fault this time and at least everyone's journey becomes free

 

[akm]

Looking at the RTT for it, I don't like to imagine the disgruntlement felt by passengers waking at, say, 0630, expecting to be somewhere in Scotland and finding themselves... at a stand somewhere in the West Midlands...

 

[paul1609]

Looking at the RTT for it, I don't like to imagine the disgruntlement felt by passengers waking at, say, 0630, expecting to be somewhere in Scotland and finding themselves... at a stand somewhere in the West Midlands...

Its all part of the adventure. Ive woken up before expecting to see Milton Keynes and in fact having a view of Loch Long and northbound expecting to be in the outskirts of Edinburgh but actually being in a freight loop on the outskirts of the Lake District. Virtually nobody uses the sleeper as serious transport!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Last time I used the Southbound Highland Sleeper, it was over an hour late arriving at London Euston. On the negative side, I was requested to vacate the train almost the moment it rolled into Euston, but, on the positive side, the delay (and the fact that the heating had failed mid journey) meant that I subsequently received a nice three figure £££ sum in delay repay and associated compo.

 

[weepingwillowb]

I wondered why I saw 15 Caledonian Sleeper carriages being taken north, just south of Lancaster station, this lunchtime - now I know! Thanks.

Realtime Trains | 5S26 1230 Preston to Carlisle | 13/01/2023

Real-time train running information for 5S26 1230 departure from Preston to Carlisle on 13/01/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

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[gabrielhj07]

I note the up Highlander was delayed about 2 hours at Preston - could that be because the driver was trapped on the down Lowlander at Stafford?

Where did you see this?

RTT shows a delay of 24 minutes leaving Preston.

 

[KendalR]

Where did you see this?

RTT shows a delay of 24 minutes leaving Preston.

You're looking at the wrong train, 1S25 going north.

1M16 was 122 minutes late heading south. Usually the driver on 1S26 would get off at Preston and take 1M16 to Euston. As 1S26 was stuck, GBRf had to send a driver from Crewe who booked on at 0500 in a taxi to Preston.

 

[dk1]

Wouldn't say its a record. There has been some seriously impressive delays over the years to the sleepers, particularly across Scotland during adverse weather

 

[JamieL]

Its all part of the adventure. Ive woken up before expecting to see Milton Keynes and in fact having a view of Loch Long and northbound expecting to be in the outskirts of Edinburgh but actually being in a freight loop on the outskirts of the Lake District. Virtually nobody uses the sleeper as serious transport!

I regularly use the sleeper train as "serious transport" and personally I have found it much more reliable than the day train. Infact, certainly when heading south, the CS often arrives early. On my last journey - Highlander southbound 29/30 Dec - it beat the floods and arrived at Euston 30mins early.

The CS never gets declassified, it makes an effort to keeps its customers informed, it generally arrives at its destination, has en-suite and it is clean and comfortable. The contrasting day train - Avanti - is quite the opposite!

 

[gabrielhj07]

You're looking at the wrong train, 1S25 going north.

1M16 was 122 minutes late heading south. Usually the driver on 1S26 would get off at Preston and take 1M16 to Euston. As 1S26 was stuck, GBRf had to send a driver from Crewe who booked on at 0500 in a taxi to Preston.

Whoops! Thank you.

 

[paul1609]

I regularly use the sleeper train as "serious transport" and personally I have found it much more reliable than the day train. Infact, certainly when heading south, the CS often arrives early. On my last journey - Highlander southbound 29/30 Dec - it beat the floods and arrived at Euston 30mins early.

The CS never gets declassified, it makes an effort to keeps its customers informed, it generally arrives at its destination, has en-suite and it is clean and comfortable. The contrasting day train - Avanti - is quite the opposite!

If you regularly use the sleeper you will recognise what I say is true. Apart from the lowlander northbound on thurs and friday nights and southbound on sun and mon. The sleepers customers are predominantly leisure/ tourist on one off trips. This is not obviously exclusively so but it is predominantly so.

 

[The Planner]

I regularly use the sleeper train as "serious transport" and personally I have found it much more reliable than the day train. Infact, certainly when heading south, the CS often arrives early. On my last journey - Highlander southbound 29/30 Dec - it beat the floods and arrived at Euston 30mins early.

The CS never gets declassified, it makes an effort to keeps its customers informed, it generally arrives at its destination, has en-suite and it is clean and comfortable. The contrasting day train - Avanti - is quite the opposite!

Its timed for comfort, but it can recover delays to an extent, especially southbound.

 

[Jimini]

Freight, granted, but I don't think I've seen a delay with four digits before!

Realtime Trains | 6M74 1855 Irvine Caledonian Paper Gb to Carlisle N.Y. | 12/01/2023

Real-time train running information for 6M74 1855 departure from Irvine Caledonian Paper Gb to Carlisle N.Y. on 12/01/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

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6M74 1855 Irvine Caledonian Paper Gb to Wembley Receptions 1-7

Just a cool 1,142 minutes late by the time it got shelved at Carlisle!