Bus on the track/sidings huddersfield

[Pacef8]

Saw a strange sight today of a Single decker bus being dragged along the access service track of the line outside huddersfield this morning . A jcb pulling it and a network rail 4x4 ahead if it. What on earth was going on ?

 

[Mikey C]

Saw a strange sight today of a Single decker bus being dragged along the access service track of the line outside huddersfield this morning . A jcb pulling it and a network rail 4x4 ahead if it. What on earth was going on ?

A rail replacement bus

 

[Liverpool 507]

Saw a strange sight today of a Single decker bus being dragged along the access service track of the line outside huddersfield this morning . A jcb pulling it and a network rail 4x4 ahead if it. What on earth was going on ?

There’s been a large scale emergency service/Network Rail/TPE multi agency training exercise in Standedge Tunnel on Thursday. Whereabouts did you see this?

 

[Pacef8]

Not sure exactly but it was before huddersfield so i would presume it was from that exercise.

 

[Tomo]

You sure it wasn't a pacer?

 

[fgwrich]

There’s been a large scale emergency service/Network Rail/TPE multi agency training exercise in Standedge Tunnel on Thursday. Whereabouts did you see this?

It would appear to have been part of this training exercise:

https://twitter.com/wyfrs/status/1449013047792648194?s=21

 

[Pacef8]

Many thanks.

 

[Towers]

Poor old Dart!

*In fact, it's a MAN

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I'm intrigued as to what the scenario was there, that would involve a road vehicle underneath the Pennines... a hijacked bus taken into the tunnel? Seems a bit far-fetched... and a Stagecoach bus at that, so the hijackers must have come all the way from Manchester or Barnsley!

 

[TB]

Maybe an alternative way to practice extricating an injured/ill passenger from a train inside a tunnel, without needing a heritage line, stock and staff or closing a live line?

 

[Pacef8]

Actually i was thinking the bus may of been used as a rest area if it was multi agency. One for network rail really.

 

[jonesy3001]

22434, a former stagecoach MAN ALX300.

 

[Fokx]

I'm intrigued as to what the scenario was there, that would involve a road vehicle underneath the Pennines... a hijacked bus taken into the tunnel? Seems a bit far-fetched... and a Stagecoach bus at that, so the hijackers must have come all the way from Manchester or Barnsley!

The bus was ‘the train’ in this scenario

 

[61653 HTAFC]

The bus was ‘the train’ in this scenario

My post was slightly tongue-in-cheek of course. However if as you say the bus was a "stand-in" for a train in the scenario it does raise some questions...
Presuming that this exercise would have involved the use of cutting gear, would I be correct in assuming that cutting into a modern railway vehicle in the event of an accident (a scenario which I hope we never have to face), would be significantly tougher than cutting into a bus that is beyond its useful life?

 

[endofthetunnel]

The exercise was more designed to practise the working together of all agencies and conditions working in a tunnel, rather than the specifics of cutting into a train, which can be simulated off track and without the need for multi agency collaboration. It was far from true to life, of course, e.g. including multiple staff handovers to allow maximum training, but would you rather they didn’t practise until there was a suitable modern vehicle available to destroy in a tunnel?