dvboy
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station evacuated, trains being diveryed
anyone know any more?
anyone know any more?
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Fire alarms at Birmingham New Street
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scotsman
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Even the all-seeing @LondonMidland doesn't know!
dvboy
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open now. faulty alarm
dvboy
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"@brumpolice: New Street station was evacuated following a malicious activation of an alarm call point. Criminal investigation now underway. No injuries."
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Eventually...
Anyways, thought one call point activation triggered Inspector Sands - surely this would have given staff time to check?
tsr
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A smoke detector may trigger a full evacuation, even if only one is activated accidentally.
There are other ways for those with nothing better to do to make sure a station is unnecessarily evacuated, but for obvious safety and economic reasons I won't mention them here. They're quite simple methods - regulars on here probably know them.
There are other ways for those with nothing better to do to make sure a station is unnecessarily evacuated, but for obvious safety and economic reasons I won't mention them here. They're quite simple methods - regulars on here probably know them.
Yes and then after everything started a 323 failed at bourneville. XC 170 2030 Birmingham TO Cardiff got stuck behind then 2059 LM 170 to Hereford got stuck behind. Services wrong lined back to new street approximately 2230.
Reversing back to New Street must have been a complex operation. Something in the region of 5 or 6 signalling sections from there to Bournville. Not to mention dealing with the resulting mess at New Street itself.
alexdodds
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I bet that station has been evacuated more than any other.
dvboy
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From memory, it's been evacuated at least three times this year. The last two times involved smoke coming from trains.
I've been caught up in an evacuation twice there in the past, was on a slow moving VT from WVH and it was announced we'd be going straight through to BHI but by the time we got to BHM the alarms had stopped so we stopped there in the end anyway. The other time I was prevented from entering the station and I ended up walking to Snow Hill and getting a tram instead.
I've been caught up in an evacuation twice there in the past, was on a slow moving VT from WVH and it was announced we'd be going straight through to BHI but by the time we got to BHM the alarms had stopped so we stopped there in the end anyway. The other time I was prevented from entering the station and I ended up walking to Snow Hill and getting a tram instead.
Emergency crossover at Church Road before Five Ways puts you right line in.
dvboy
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Was it choc-a-bloc at the time?
Sorry
I heard a Wispa that the driver wanted a Time Out to Chomp on a Picnic. That's when things started getting a bit Flakey and LM had to get their Fingers out and Fudge everyone onto Double Deckers.
The sectional appendix confirms that it is
NS454 controlling signal if I remember correctly.
The 'Inspector Sands' announcement isn't played at New Street, instead 'Staff Call 100' is used for the same purpose.
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