Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2011 17:44:14 GMT
I was in London today and following an interview I had a pare afternoon and a Travelcard so I decided to track a trip around the Hainault loop. I boarded an eastbound Hainault train at Holborn on what I thought would be a fairly routine journey! I was in a NDM car no. 93204 and as the train entered Mile End station what appeared to be black smoke emanated from under the seat a young lady was sitting on. The train pulled into the station, the doors opened and the passengers in the coach all looked very worried (me included) so I pulled the Emergency Alarm. LU staff did come and inspect the coach and said that it was dust and understood the passengers concerns and asked us to move to another coach as a precaution (2 LU staff did stay in the coach) At Leyton the driver announced that there would be a short delay whist the train(coach ) was inspected .
Is this a common problem with 1992 stock it most likely was dust but there was lots of it and it was black? The other thing that surprised me was that everyone in the train just froze and did not know what to do and were unaware of the alarm or frightened to activate it!
My journey continued and the driver announced that we would not be stopping a Fairlop due to a bridge strike. When we passed over the bride there was a tall Maersk lorry trailer on its side with some of it under the bridge- I have seen lorries crushed under a bridge but never on their side; I guess the driver might have swerved at the last minute.
The impact of these 2 incidents meant that for 50 minutes all trains were turned back to London at Hainault and I waited 50 minutes for a Woodford train. However it was a pleasant day I saw the Rail Adhesion Unit in Hainault depot a really liked the country atmosphere of the stations on this line.
One last thing I spotted on my journey back to Maidenhead was an R Stock sliver coach next to a Routemaster bus on the land which was formally the goods yard at West Drayton station. Has anyone got any ideas what coach it was and what it was doing there? My thoughts were that it might have been fire training coach for the airport I saw a 1959 trailer at Heathrow a few years go being used for this purpose.
Is this a common problem with 1992 stock it most likely was dust but there was lots of it and it was black? The other thing that surprised me was that everyone in the train just froze and did not know what to do and were unaware of the alarm or frightened to activate it!
My journey continued and the driver announced that we would not be stopping a Fairlop due to a bridge strike. When we passed over the bride there was a tall Maersk lorry trailer on its side with some of it under the bridge- I have seen lorries crushed under a bridge but never on their side; I guess the driver might have swerved at the last minute.
The impact of these 2 incidents meant that for 50 minutes all trains were turned back to London at Hainault and I waited 50 minutes for a Woodford train. However it was a pleasant day I saw the Rail Adhesion Unit in Hainault depot a really liked the country atmosphere of the stations on this line.
One last thing I spotted on my journey back to Maidenhead was an R Stock sliver coach next to a Routemaster bus on the land which was formally the goods yard at West Drayton station. Has anyone got any ideas what coach it was and what it was doing there? My thoughts were that it might have been fire training coach for the airport I saw a 1959 trailer at Heathrow a few years go being used for this purpose.
