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Re: severn tunnel incident?

Von: GJD (gregdash@hotmail.com) [Profil]
Datum: 30.09.2008 06:32
Message-ID: <37f0ebe9-69a9-423a-b470-36a7c8fac6c3@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
Newsgroup: uk.railway
On 29 Sep, 19:20, 826 <jonporter1...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 28 Sep, 07:32, anthony <anthony...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I have heard on other forums that a  driver of a class 150 repoted
> > problems as he was going through the severn tunnel, turned out to be
> > wheel flats.
>
> No wheel damage was the result of the incident not the cause, which is
> being investigated. Why would a driver decide to stop his train in the
> middle of a tunnel for wheel flats?

The wheel damage was NOT as a result of the incident.  The train was
stopped inside the tunnel due to excessivly loud noise coming from the
direction of the wheelsets.  The tell tale wire was pulled by the
train crew resulting in everything being on stop for a while.

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