Looking at Realtimetrains from yesterday it happened before trains started arriving for the night, some sets out stabled at various stations including Wolverhampton, Stafford, New St and Birmingham International.
The news article says Wolverhampton area and affecting trains to Stafford and Shrewsbury. It mentions damage to the OHLE.
EDIT:
It’s next to Oxley depot which is on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury line. So Bilbrook is not a bad description. The line is also electrified at this point to allow access to Oxley depot.
In all fairness to the bbc they lifted that directly off national rail.
Avanti can't access the depot at Oxley, iirc, so there's disruption as a result of that. At least, that was the case earlierTo be fair to the BBC the National Rail Enquiries Disruption page is IMHO very misleading;
Incident: Bilbrook | National Rail
Incident resolved: disruption between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury until 09:00. Find details of all current incidents on National Rail Enquiries.www.nationalrail.co.uk
When I first read this (at 0530 today!) I took it to mean that the derailment was at or very near Wolverhampton North Junction, but this is not as we know the case and the route between Wolverhampton and Stafford is not physically affected, at all. Any disruption is minor and due to a lack of trains!
They've used National Rail - seems a sensible way of them checking the details. You'd expect National Rail to be an accurate source of information for incidents on the railway.
What else do you expect them to do in this case? You are massively over-reacting...
But taking information off National Rail should be acceptable as that information is provided by the relevant TOC.
Thats true for most ‘journalism’ these days in fairness. I just don’t get the criticism for the BBC but not National Rail.
Inability to access the main depot for Avanti services from/to the Midlands is pretty major! There'll be fewer trains available.
Difficult one. The BBC quoted Network Rail that gave confusing information. My gripe with the BBC is that these are not isolated incidents. That reprint other people's stories with no verification. OK in this instance I don't have detailed knowledge of Wolverhampton. The last time I was there was from High Wycombe via Snow Hill to the low level station. Oxley shed had a lot of steam engines. But wanting to see where this incident was as soon as I looked up Bilbrook on a map I saw something wasn't right. Would the BBC be expected to know that, somebody in the main office probably not but no excuse for the local West Midland office to suspect something wrong. Surely phone call to the press office to verify. Call me pedantic but how much of what the BBC reports is rubbish? Our opinions are base on what we see reported. Cut and pasting somebody else's inaccurate story isn't news reporting.
Rail magazine reported on Friday the points moved under the train due to a faulty track circuit
www.railmagazine.com
Which maybe suggests a wrong-sider with the rear of the train undetected and a new ‘normal’ route called towards Wolverhampton as the signalling system determined it safe to do so?Rail magazine reported on Friday the points moved under the train due to a faulty track circuit
Wolverhampton derailment: points 'moved underneath wagon' as Network Rail details repair work
Network Rail explains what needed repairing after a wagon derailed by Oxley depot on May 5.
Possibly the points are self-restoring to provide trapping protection?
They have changed stuff when I have contacted them, although I've always included a Internet link(s) to back up my information/what I'm saying.
Errrr well it was wrong. It wasn't Bilbrook was it. In this case it appears the source was incorrect. Why say it was Bilbrook if it was Oxley?
Not Iron Maiden Steve Harris I take it. Can't remember what it was but recently I picked them up on something and they amended that also so they do change things that are wrong if pointed out to them.
Kevin off the internet who didn't know the area either, but still criticises...
It wasn’t just Wolverhampton/Shrewsbury route affected though. Wolverhampton/Stafford was as it was Oxley not Bilbrook.The exact location is really a non issue - the Wolverhampton area and the route affected (Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury) is all the average passenger needs to know. And in any case the incident is now over:
Incident: Bilbrook | National Rail
Incident resolved: disruption between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury until 09:00. Find details of all current incidents on National Rail Enquiries.
Oxley isn't between Wolves and Stafford.
