Chaos at Leeds tonight (26/06)

[D6975]

I arrived about 18:00 to find the board with delayed delayed etc.
A 185 had broken down having made it about 100m or so out of the station westbound. Lovely..
I went to spoons for a meal and a pint, came back to find a whole load of 185s littered around the station and the broken down 185 still blocking the throat. It's finally been moved, and I'm at last moving towards Huddersfield.
Just been talking to someone who was on the failure and he says he was on there for over 2 hours with no air con.

 

[SpacePhoenix]

I arrived about 18:00 to find the board with delayed delayed etc.
A 185 had broken down having made it about 100m or so out of the station westbound. Lovely..
I went to spoons for a meal and a pint, came back to find a whole load of 185s littered around the station and the broken down 185 still blocking the throat. It's finally been moved, and I'm at last moving towards Huddersfield.
Just been talking to someone who was on the failure and he says he was on there for over 2 hours with no air con.

Could one of the other 185s (with its electrical block retracted out the way) have been used to shunt the broken down 185 back into the platform (or at least clear of the throat)?

 

[alexl92]

How did it take SO long to shift one train or at least get it back into the platforms?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Sounds like Leeds had it rough yesterday afternoon. I was on board the fast Sheffield 158 a couple of hours before hand and noticed the inner vestibule in the leading car had about an inch of water sloshing around the floor, with more dripping down from the air conditioning unit in the ceiling. A fitter soon arrived and declared a failure there and then, cue passengers racing over from 17 to 9b. I just waited for the following Nottingham as I wasn't in a rush though. Thankfully I was well away when the 185 business happened!

 

[johnpeter3]

How did it take SO long to shift one train or at least get it back into the platforms?

I'm not sure but the driver was on the track at the station end of the train looking in despair.

 

[455driver]

How did it take SO long to shift one train or at least get it back into the platforms?

Its called Health and Safety!
People want everything protected in cotton wool so they cant really moan when it prevents people using their common sense in a situation like this (see the thread about the TPE guard using his common sense)!

 

[Statto]

Its called Health and Safety!
People want everything protected in cotton wool so they cant really moan when it prevents people using their common sense in a situation like this (see the thread about the TPE guard using his common sense)!

More of the anything untoward happens a claim for comp is put in straight away.