(07 Aug 2025, 8:57 pm)PH - BQA wrote This will be 7557, believe it suffered engine failure.
It is relentless. They look to have finally given up with 7564 now.
An X18/15 was missing this morning for the best part of 5 hours.
An X20 also failed in Newcastle, and they dropped a full X30 and X20 back to Ashington before picking it up again 3 hours later for the trip to Alnwick.
As much as the engineering department are bad, the people in charge of service regulation some days seem equally clueless - this is also clear to see in the allocations. Some days they make sense, other days it's like they've thrown darts to decide what goes where.
As they didn't cover up the window apertures, I wonder if 7557 is a goner now.
Regarding the Newcastle-Ashington corridor they need to tread carefully with the Northumberland Line opening the rest of the stations that heavily overlap the X2x area, not just for car users like with some other stations on the line.