TransPennine Express

[Gordon V]

RE: First Transpennine Express

(16/03/2016 20:18)wirralbus Wrote:  So its not just the Class 319's that can cause disruption on services into and out of Liverpool , this morning a class 185 decided it was not operating beyond St Helens Junction , having to be rescued by another class 185 which then couldn't remove its errant partner . All in all it took about 3 hours to sort .

The unit that failed was on the 0616 from York to Liverpool , the unit that would have formed the 0812 Liverpool - Newcastle was the assisting unit , this service restarted at York with a new unit.

185115 was the unit that failed,the assisting unit went wrong way from Huyton to St Helens Junction to couple to the front then as stated above further problems developed so the assisting unit had the passengers transferred onto it which then ran to Huyton to get the passengers to there to change onto Northern to Lime St,the assisting unit then went back to the failed unit and with assistance from a fitter from Ardwick depot the units coupled up and ran ECS to Ardwick after crossing over at Huyton,all in all the failure/line being blocked lasted from approximately 0750-1135