(04 Nov 2015, 9:17 pm)Dan wrote You can't believe owt they say, man. I'm gonna have to hit the hay early tonight just in case I have to get the 56 or X36 tomorrow morning instead, as I don't believe for one second that a failed train can't be shifted until end of play...
I bet they still have the automated "we are running a good service with no report issues" announcements going over the tanoy at the moment.
We got that announcement shortly after we got turfed at Brockley Whins earlier. I made a few people laugh when I responsed to the announcement with "Guess Metro Control didn't catch the memo about our train with an electrical fault then!"
Without knowing what has happened, one possible reason could be the train in question took down the OHL down which would take quite a number of hours to repair although one may argue the explanation for the delays may be different if this was the case.
Another explanation the train in question has suffered a gearbox seizure which I recall one incident in Felling last year took hours to move because it had to be 'jacked' up(as obviously it can't move under its own power) and of course getting that equipment to the scene takes a while just in itself.
Of course its easy to say its BS but unless you actually know the facts why the train has failed, how can anyone say its BS?