Does anyone have any more info on the incident which closed HS1 around 17:00-18:00 yesterday evening? Apparently the 16:58 St Pancras Intl to Faversham hit some sort of metal debris near Ebbsfleet. Caused chaos at St Pancras in the evening rush.
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Debris incident on HS1 yesterday evening (11/10/13)
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RJ
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I was caught up in this last night - I was on the 17:12 from St Pancras and we were delayed for around 40 minutes in the Ebbsfleet area. We were told the debris came from a local scrapyard, not sure if there was an accident of some sort there.
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All the more reason not to build HS2...
Definitely, my support has disappeared for it completely. Mainly because you can never get dangerous debris on a classic railway line.
Good call.
TheKnightWho
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Well, one way of reducing railway deaths is to close all the railways, isn't it?
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I have found a cave, i am going back.
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Sounds a little odd to me, personally...But not impossible of course. Collapse of a scrap pile near to the line, maybe?
On the bright side, we can be thankful it hit a 395 and not a 373. Unless SE have changed how they run them in the last month or two the 395s are always slow past there for the call at Ebbsfleet itself, so hopefully it'll have just been a minor collision with no injuries done. Had a 373 hit that at the full 300k, it could've been a hell of a lot worse...
hock: ad: I think this disproves that theory!
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Which I don't think was a serious theory
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I do hope you know i was being sarcastic. :P
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Sorry chaps...My humour chip was turned off again! hock: 
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I was caught up in it too - northbound ex Gravesend. Conductor announced we would be stopping due to an obstruction approx 2 min after leaving Gravesend. We then stopped on the chord but short of Ebbsfleet platform (presumably as the one in front was halted there) and watched a succession of services to Charing Cross on the classique line go past. Grrr.
Anyway, the piece of metal was hit by 3 trains; 2 inbound and one out. We were limited through the Thurrock area at 100-120kph.
Anyway, the piece of metal was hit by 3 trains; 2 inbound and one out. We were limited through the Thurrock area at 100-120kph.
Peter Mugridge
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I went through the area about an hour earlier on the 14.38 Paris Nord - St Pancras 16.03 and the weather was very wet, murky and windy - quite possibly a factor?
I was there too!
My delay was from Ashford where a 12 carriage train had been cancelled and everyone piled on my 6 carriage train from Dover Priory which meant we were 10 minutes late into St Pancras.
Once at St Pancras, I did notice on the departure board that there was an 18 carriage train due to leave for Dover Priory (with 6 splitting at Ashford going to Margate).
There can't be many 18 carriage trains about?
My delay was from Ashford where a 12 carriage train had been cancelled and everyone piled on my 6 carriage train from Dover Priory which meant we were 10 minutes late into St Pancras.
Once at St Pancras, I did notice on the departure board that there was an 18 carriage train due to leave for Dover Priory (with 6 splitting at Ashford going to Margate).
There can't be many 18 carriage trains about?
Ploughman
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Just a guess but if windy it is quite possible for a sheet of steel or whatever to be blown quite a distance.
I don't suppose it was too choosy about whether it landed on a road, a railway or landed in a canal though.
I don't suppose it was too choosy about whether it landed on a road, a railway or landed in a canal though.
asylumxl
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How close to Ebbsfleet? I seem to remember there being a scrapyard near Rainham or so (before the last tunnel before Ebbsfleet).
edwin_m
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I've been affected by this before on a windy morning - cladding blown off a tin shed building between Nottingham and Beeston. The first windy day of the autumn is pretty good at finding any loose or rusty fixings.
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