1M96 1109 Glasgow - Manchester Airport..

[QueensCurve]

A year or two ago the shoes fell off a 375 on the Up through line at Tonbridge, passengers were evacuated by way of a dedicated bridge to a unit on platform 2. It's not a procedure (AFAIK) for rail staff to evacuate passengers onto any unit of a different floor height or door width.

In all my travels I have never been involved in one of these evacuations. :cry:

 

[D1009]

It always strikes me as odd that the line we are told is the most important doesn't have the basic facility to route trains bidirectionally. With 3 passenger trains an our each way it will hopefully one day be possible to route all the trains on one tract between Beattock and the Summit with minimal delay.

Admittedly it is possible that a further delay would occur for the train involved in the initial failure, but 1M97 1213 Edinburgh to Manchester was also booked to be a Class 350 and would presumably have run had the bidirectional facility existed.

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y04249/2017/03/06/advanced

I suspect we'll get bi-di when ERTMS comes in, though how long we'll have to wait is anyone's guess.