Virgin trains cancelled

[Hellfire]

Announcement at Euston just now. 1555

1623 VT service to Wolverhampton and 1633 to Preston both cancelled due to lack of rolling stock. What gives?
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Update. Tweet from VT says that the missing units "must be occupied elsewhere".

 

[northwichcat]

There's disruption at Congleton due to a person being hit by a train earlier so some Pendolinos may have got stuck at Manchester as a result.

 

[ushawk]

There's disruption at Congleton due to a person being hit by a train earlier so some Pendolinos may have got stuck at Manchester as a result.

Reason given for both cancellations is in relation to the Congleton incident.

 

[87015]

Reason given for both cancellations is in relation to the Congleton incident.

Then they are being a bit naughty as they were earlier showing as in reaction to cancellation of both the 10.15 and 11.55 Manchester - Eustons after EMU failures - they were stepping sets up at Manchester for much of the morning due to a shortage of working units as well.

 

[dk1]

Virgin Trains are probably the best at getting to grip with turnarounds. They cancel at a last resort probably down to the sheer choice of Pendo arrivals. Just the crew issues to sort. I am mostly impressed with the way this operator gets back on top of service disruption.