I'm stuck in the queue heading south. We've been told it's electric supply issues with the southbound line out of use. All services using the northbound line.
Bit of sunshine and everything falls apart.
There's two more to go before us......the delay repay will cover a fish supper, so long as it's still open when I get home!
What has been difficult in this part of the world recently has been very large diurnal temperature ranges, sometimes exceeding 20C.
Fully aware.
Austria, Switzerland and others seem to cope.
Thats well within the range of auto tensioning equipment and why fixed tension was abandoned 70yrs ago.
They have to thin the service out past the affected area, they concentrate on the core Leeds/Edinburgh services to maximise passenger numbers being moved.
It's probably to do with thinning services out, those that are going further afield. However, the Lincoln service is quite often the first sacrifice during disruption or stock shortage.
It happens at the other end as well. The extensions to Bradford, Harrogate and (sometimes) Skipton from Leeds will get knocked if the turnaround time is lost. In extremis, the service from Leeds will turn into a Leeds-Doncaster shuttle, though I haven't seen that happen recently outside of strike action.
Yes that makes sense as they tend to only be 5-car units and special stop orders can be easily arranged along with a RR bus for the short hop from Newark to Lincoln.
I can see your reasoning, but the bimodes can use the Hertford loop and as the Lincoln service no longer calls at Stevenage that should not effect anything, and with 45 mins recovery time at Lincoln there seems no reson to cancel unless the stock is used elsewhere.
It’s often just to ‘thin the service out’ at times of disruption. Also traincrew may be booked a PNB in that 45 minutes which would further hamper service recovery.
