Gautrain broken?

[Albereth]

Passengers kicked off in Midrand and told to wait for another train.

Strike?
Weather?
Electricity?
Maintenance?

 

[Albereth]

Passengers kicked off in Midrand and told to wait for another train.

Strike?
Weather?
Electricity?
Maintenance?

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Still doesn't say why. And the passengers were told diddly too.

But it's sort of odd that they changed trains.

 

[LazyLion]

Still doesn't say why. And the passengers were told diddly too.

But it's sort of odd that they changed trains.

Nobody on Twitter knows the reason either...
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=gautrain&src=typd

 

[Albereth]

Nobody on Twitter knows the reason either...
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=gautrain&src=typd

It might be interesting (albeit not for all) to find out what the reason was.

 

[LazyLion]

It might be interesting (albeit not for all) to find out what the reason was.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it is something silly like operator broke a nail or something.

 

[onlyoneken]

Last week Thursday the 06:04 train broke down half way between Pretoria and Midrand. A tech finally got it going at snails pace and when we finally got to Midrand about 30-40 mins later, we were asked to change trains. Not something similar to that happening today?

 

[Albereth]

Last week Thursday the 06:04 train broke down half way between Pretoria and Midrand. A tech finally got it going at snails pace and when we finally got to Midrand about 30-40 mins later, we were asked to change trains. Not something similar to that happening today?

I somehow get the feeling that the Gautrain and Eskom have the same approach to maintenance.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

The artisan who usually services the train's engines got replaced by a cadre

 

[sam7606]

Yep...it seems the train was broken or something. A friend of mine said it took the train over 1hour30minutes to go from Hatfield to Rosebank. She says that there were constant announcements of technical errors...

 

[Albereth]

Yep...it seems the train was broken or something. A friend of mine said it took the train over 1hour30minutes to go from Hatfield to Rosebank. She says that there were constant announcements of technical errors...

That's going to be fun for the return trip this evening.

 

[princeradebe]

I think this caused the delay.

 

[Albereth]

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I think this caused the delay.

That. Or wet leaves - unless that is a British Rail exclusive.