| Sunday 23/08/26 - No Crosscountry services Posted by plymothian at 06:30, 23rd August 2026 |     |
ALL Crosscountry services suspended [removed from timetable] due to a power failure at their control centre.
Several additional calls at Tiverton Parkway by GWR to cover.
| Re: Sunday 23/08/26 - No Crosscountry services Posted by grahame at 08:37, 23rd August 2026 | |
ALL Crosscountry services suspended [removed from timetable] due to a power failure at their control centre.
Several additional calls at Tiverton Parkway by GWR to cover.
Several additional calls at Tiverton Parkway by GWR to cover.
09:14 Plymouth to London Paddington due 12:27
09:14 Plymouth to London Paddington due 12:27 will call additionally at Tiverton Parkway.
This is due to the train making extra stops because of service disruption.
09:14 Plymouth to London Paddington due 12:27 will call additionally at Tiverton Parkway.
This is due to the train making extra stops because of service disruption.
"I was going out for the day to Birmingham. Oh - never mind - I'll go to Reading instead"
... there will be some slow old journeys, especially north from Cheltenham Spa, won't there?| Re: Sunday 23/08/26 - No Crosscountry services Posted by John D at 09:18, 23rd August 2026 | |
Seems to be lack of contingency plan at work here.
Staff on the ground have mobile phones, staff at control centre could have emergency contact method if their main building is not available
Very similar to the recent Manchester area disruption, no proper back up power for critical computers, or slower older reserve that can be used instead
| Re: Sunday 23/08/26 - No Crosscountry services Posted by Bob_Blakey at 11:15, 23rd August 2026 | |
I find myself wondering how many other vital rail industry support services are there that do not have:
The service split over (at least) two geographically separate locations which have the ability to deal with all (or increased) comms traffic in the event of one site suffering a catastrophic failure
or
A single site which has duplicate power supply routes, UPS infrastructure, and back-up generators
I suspect quite a few.
