1F32 Sat 16th May from MKC, passed through

[222meridianfan]

Hey all, on Saturday 16th May I was waiting at Milton Keynes Central to travel on 1F32 18:15 Avanti service to Liverpool Lime Street. As the train approached MKC you got the usual announcement that the next arriving at platform 6 is the 18:15 Avanti service to Liverpool Lime Street etc but the class 807 passed straight through at line speed, the Avanti staff on the platform looked very confused and starting making phone calls and just after it passed through there was a manual announcement apologising the the train has passed straight through the station for some unknown reason and tickets will be accepted to travel with LNR to Crewe and change there.
Would this of been a case that the driver had forgotten they was meant to stop at Milton Keynes as I thought in the 807 they had a screen to the right of them showing the next stop or would it of been some other issue that the station staff weren’t aware about?

 

[NSE]

It could be anything. Yes, they might have failed to call but there could be all sorts of reasons control/signallers have instructed them to miss the stop. If it was very short notice then it’s probably wiser to tell the driver before the platform staff!

I don’t know about the 807 stock, but the cabs I spend time in have a screen for the driver (not showing the next station, however) and most drivers turn it off when driving. They all cite different reasons but explanations include they don’t like the brightness in their peripheral vision (particularly at night) or that they see the digital clock ticking by and then start rushing to make up time and then possibly forget something. So if there is one in this class as you say, it may be that it wouldn’t have helped.

Fail to calls do happen, but short notice emergency contingency plans happen just as much.

 

[Vexed]

I think it would have been a fail to call. The cancellation reason in Darwin for the Milton Keynes Central call is "This service has been cancelled because of an operational incident" (681). There was also an additional stop at Rugby, I assume to allow passengers for MKC to double back.

 

[GordonT]

If a guard/conductor/train manager announces a forthcoming stop in the usual way and the anticipated stop fails to happen is there a scripted form of words for a subsequent announcement in these circumstances or is it ad hoc?

 

[LCC106]

Whereas yesterday I was booked to not stop at several stations… and another driver from a different TOC threw his arms in the air when I didn’t stop for him! I acknowledged him as I would any station staff. Hope he got to where he needed to be!

 

[Surreytraveller]

Sometimes it will be a planning error, where a stop doesn't appear on a driver's diagram when it should, or it will appear on departure screens when it shouldn't