(08 May 2021, 8:51 am)Rob44 wrote https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57036247

nothing running oneastcoast main line according to report

(08 May 2021, 9:29 am)Micheal Aaron wrote According to a tweet
All LNER services are not running at all

(08 May 2021, 9:29 am)Micheal Aaron wrote According to a tweet
All LNER services are not running at all

(08 May 2021, 9:08 am)citaro5284 wrote Not just Hitachi ones either.  Northern suffered the same with their CAF's recently too.

Once the trains are checked they are entering service I believe, so there are some LNER services running now.

(09 May 2021, 12:55 pm)mb134 wrote Nice to know that LNER operate some of these Hitachi trains. Until yesterday I thought their fleet was entirely made up of some swanky "Azuma's". Oh, they're the same thing?

LNER communication hasn't been fantastic over this situation.

(09 May 2021, 1:31 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote Can you blame them. I hate it when people blame LNER as they all think its there fault. Same problem with the metro. If a metro breaks down or fails. Its not the guy/girl who runs the twitter account. Give them a break. These things happen

(09 May 2021, 1:55 pm)mb134 wrote Yes you can. It's the job of the communications department to inform (and reassure) passengers. 

Of course you can't blame them for the cracks being found, but you can hold them accountable for poor communication. They have continued with "Class 800 Hitachi", while numerous comments have been along the lines of "my service is ran with Azumas, so I'll be fine?".

(09 May 2021, 2:01 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote But why blame LNER it isn't there fault. Its the company who made the trains. You can't blame a person running a twitter account. It's not there fault. The amount of shit they get put through

(09 May 2021, 2:01 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote But why blame LNER it isn't there fault. Its the company who made the trains. You can't blame a person running a twitter account. It's not there fault. The amount of shit they get put through

(09 May 2021, 4:07 pm)Adrian wrote As a customer, why would I care less who manufactured the trains? My contract is with the operator, in the form of that I've purchased a ticket and in return they provide me with a journey from A to B. Its really no concern who provides the trains, who maintains the track, signals or even the coffee machine. 

LNER are responsible for keeping their customers informed - and them alone.

(09 May 2021, 5:04 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote Yea u try tell that to the people who were slating them yesterday. All they were doing was keeping people informed and they got slated for it

(09 May 2021, 10:00 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote What response would you like them give

(09 May 2021, 10:00 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote What response would you like them give

(10 May 2021, 10:16 am)Storx wrote Could be worse, could be GWR's response which is even worse, don't have a clue what's going on with them today.

Both companies need to be honest here though as they're going on as if it's going to be gone in a few days so just defer your journey when in reality this could be going on for weeks. GWR has 3/94 trains on the tracks today supposedly it's not just a small 10 minute fix either. LNER are doing a bit better but believe they're planning to get some Class 91's + MK4's back into service asap to fill gaps, only to Doncaster though.

(11 May 2021, 3:59 pm)GNE6312 wrote Would have thought they'd priorities getting the 91s on their flagship Edinburgh to London Routes.

(11 May 2021, 7:16 pm)mb134 wrote Surely they'd want their new trains on their 'flagship' route? 

Regardless, I'd imagine there'd be issues with crew competency and maintenance at Craigentinny and Heaton. From memory, and I could be wrong here, I don't believe there were any plans to have 91s serve Newcastle/Edinburgh again, with the plan being to use them on the Yorkshire runs.

(13 May 2021, 10:15 am)Andreos1 wrote https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-05-13/trains-with-cracks-to-return-to-service-after-rigorous-tests

When is a crack not a problem crack?
When it's had rigorous tests over a couple of days apparently.

Trains with cracks to return to service.

(14 May 2021, 9:04 am)Ianthegoon wrote They'll need to have worked out what causes the cracks, how fast they get bigger, and what might happen if the crack gets too big.  Once they've done all that - which is what's been happening over the last few days - they'll be able to look at each train individually and define a programme of checks for it based on what size the cracks are already.  (I've seen it stated that daily checks are likely).  Any train which already has cracks over a certain size won't be coming back until it's fixed.  Trains with smaller cracks can be used provided the crack doesn't reach that particular size, and when it does they'll have another unusable until fixed train on their hands.  And I've not seen anywhere yet that they actually have a long term fix plan, although the designers will be working hard to establish one if they don't yet have it!