(Yesterday, 12:49 pm)PH - BQA wrote The people doing the allocation at Ashington aren’t exactly rocket scientists. Frequently send stuff on long distance express work which has failed the previous day only for it to fail again.
Any competent management structure would be on top of that, however we all know how poor management is there.
And as if by magic...
7542, which broke down on Tuesday on the X30, and yesterday on the X22, was allocated to an X18 board and didn't make it past lunchtime.
On top of that, the engineering situation is getting even worse. As far as I can see 1512, 1543, 7542, 7548, 7552, 7566, and 7569 all broke down on X18 boards alone today. The situation elsewhere was equally bleak, 7553 failed twice, 1391 failed on a 1, 1540 failed on a 2 then got taken off an X21.
As a complete aside, I travelled on one of the 61-plate Pulsars to the match on Tuesday night and it was an absolute disgrace internally. Every seat I could see was soiled, the floor was disgusting, and there was an overpowering smell. The fact that the seats aren't being picked up by drivers on initial inspections is horrendous in itself. Borderline a public health concern how bad it was - and it's horrific that management aren't picking up on these things. Mechanically it sounded shot, too.