OHLE problems at Fitzwilliam

[anti-pacer]

As far as I can recall this is now the third 'incident' involving the wires at this location in the last 6 months.

I was on the 1657 Leeds-Doncaster when an announcement came on advising of the above problem. Quick thinking, I headed for the 1711 XC Bristol train, thinking that, as a DMU it would be less likely to be affected. So far so good.

I got talking to a lovely girl from Plymouth and all was going well on my 11 minute journey to Wakefield Westgate, until about half a mile outside the station where we stopped for about 10 minutes.

An announcement came on advising that the train would be taking a diversionary route to Sheffield, which I presumed would be via Kirkgate, reversing out via Barnsley. Turns out the train was going back via Leeds and "Methley", which is the Wakefield Kirkgate route! Why not just go from Westgate to Kirkgate and reverse?

Looking at Realtime Trains the train went back via Leeds, Methley and Hare Park, before rejoining its original route. Hare Park is before where the problem was.

Not sure as the logic of this.

 

[YorkshireBear]

As far as I can recall this is now the third 'incident' involving the wires at this location in the last 6 months.

I was on the 1657 Leeds-Doncaster when an announcement came on advising of the above problem. Quick thinking, I headed for the 1711 XC Bristol train, thinking that, as a DMU it would be less likely to be affected. So far so good.

I got talking to a lovely girl from Plymouth and all was going well on my 11 minute journey to Wakefield Westgate, until about half a mile outside the station where we stopped for about 10 minutes.

An announcement came on advising that the train would be taking a diversionary route to Sheffield, which I presumed would be via Kirkgate, reversing out via Barnsley. Turns out the train was going back via Leeds and "Methley", which is the Wakefield Kirkgate route! Why not just go from Westgate to Kirkgate and reverse?

Looking at Realtime Trains the train went back via Leeds, Methley and Hare Park, before rejoining its original route. Hare Park is before where the problem was.

Not sure as the logic of this.

The diversion is probably around an electric train that was stuck?

 

[ainsworth74]

The diversion is probably around an electric train that was stuck?

Seems the most likely outcome and it depends on where the stuck train was. If it was stuck at Wakefield Westgate then it might be possible to go around it but if it's stuck beyond or before then you might well have to go around via the long way round.

 

[BravoGolfMike]

Driver may not have signed the single line from Westgate to Kirkgate

 

[Crossover]

Driver may not have signed the single line from Westgate to Kirkgate

This was my thought too

 

[G0ORC]

As far as I can recall this is now the third 'incident' involving the wires at this location in the last 6 months.

I was on the 1657 Leeds-Doncaster when an announcement came on advising of the above problem. Quick thinking, I headed for the 1711 XC Bristol train, thinking that, as a DMU it would be less likely to be affected. So far so good.

I got talking to a lovely girl from Plymouth and all was going well on my 11 minute journey to Wakefield Westgate, until about half a mile outside the station where we stopped for about 10 minutes.

An announcement came on advising that the train would be taking a diversionary route to Sheffield, which I presumed would be via Kirkgate, reversing out via Barnsley. Turns out the train was going back via Leeds and "Methley", which is the Wakefield Kirkgate route! Why not just go from Westgate to Kirkgate and reverse?

Looking at Realtime Trains the train went back via Leeds, Methley and Hare Park, before rejoining its original route. Hare Park is before where the problem was.

Not sure as the logic of this.

Very logical - its just a matter of route knowledge

 

[mtmikethom]

I was on the 1615. Leeds to Kings Cross that day, a couple of minutes after leaving Wakefield we stopped and were stuck for around 2 hours until a Diesel Loco came from Doncaster to assist, staff were very imformative, train was well loaded with quite a lot of Schoolchildren who behaved themselves.
I was surprised at how fast the train was pulled to Doncaster by the Diesel......