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I suspect it's more a case that with the reduced timetable they were able to keep the problem units on depot, now it's back to full the problem units have to be diagrammed, and are causing problems. Same goes for the 222s.
I don't think it lasted long beyond then.
The viaduct was park of the GNR route to Dewsbury Central, the on to Ossett & Wakefield Westgate, which immediately after crossing the viaduct went under the LNWR lines, so at that end the viaduct was significantly lower than at the Batley end or...
WH492's at Bedford South Jn, 9T53 would have likely come out of platform 2 & 3 and being held waiting for 1H46 to pass. I can't remember exactly now. It would have no impact on the visibility of any of 1H46's signals.
I wouldn't expect the interim report to do so, either way. I've never been one to say we should keep yellow ends but there's something about that 10 second gap and people mentioning time taken to realise what you're looking at is really what you're looking at, not just a couple of random lights...
Really does seem bizarre when one type suffering poor availability's covering for another with the same! I was beginning to think the 360s had become the best of the 3 but that seems to have fallen off a cliff.
Funny, because it's attributed to a brake gauge fault on 810011.
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Then again, things maybe aren't so bad with the 222s as they are with the 360s, 222009's working a Corby this morning! https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C41854/2026-10-05/detailed#allox_id=0