{"id":8228,"date":"2024-08-25T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-44\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T01:30:09","slug":"sunday-variety-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a>Honiton Tunnel : Eastern Portal<\/span><\/p>\n This is because of unstable land in the embankment to the right of the tunnel mouth.<\/p><\/div>\n The slide was temporarily supported by very large sandbags …<\/p>\n … and all was well until …<\/p>\n Except it wasn’t all well. South Western Railway’s service of dark green class 800 bi-moses (sic!!) was disrupted again from Thursday of last week. Or so one on-line news feed thought!<\/p><\/div>\n The Notwork Rail team opined that the problem was less with land coming down from above, and more with water seeping up from below. So thevtrack had been excavated!<\/p><\/div>\n The dead train on platform 1 then sprang into life to form the 1106 to Waterloo.<\/p><\/div>\n … passengers were being conveyed westbound.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Blog readers may be able to guess what the code “A” might mean.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n The leaflets used to be very posh …<\/p>\n … but recent editions have beem more mundane.<\/p>\n By comparison, Arriva’s leaflet is utterly stunning!<\/p>\n Yep, there isn’t one!<\/p><\/div>\n … doesn’t mention Trent journeys. Here we see old and newer Arriva livery.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n … as from August 31st Arriva has registered a 20 minute service on the X38. Arriva has, arbitrarily and one-sidedly, broken the joint agreement.<\/p><\/div>\n On Arriva’s web site we can see the new timetable …<\/p>\n … NOT. The only mention of Trent is in the blurb about tickets, which pre-dates the kerfuffle.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n … Between Derby and Burton upon Trent. And there simply will not be enough passengers to make either of the services commercially viable.<\/p><\/div>\n These are standard very nigh speed trains carrying passengers, but they are fitted with a range of monitoring and recording technology to inspect the track and overhead catenary, but at the scheduled high lin speed.<\/p><\/div>\n … and they are very snazzy indeed.<\/p><\/div>\n