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HST fire at Didcot Parkway

Postby BR7MT on Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:12 pm

Exhaust fire causing major disruption:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6327403.stm

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Re: HST fire at Didcot Parkway

Postby jamesinbolton on Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:42 pm

BR7MT wrote:Exhaust fire causing major disruption:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6327403.stm

Regards,

Dan


Apparently HST exhausts were notorious in the past for belching out substantial fireballs if they'd been sat idling for a while before throttling up...
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Postby salopiangrowler on Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:38 pm

3rd MTU fitted powercar to blow up and the second time 43176 has blown up in a month.
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Re: HST fire at Didcot Parkway

Postby phill70 on Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:23 pm

jamesinbolton wrote:Apparently HST exhausts were notorious in the past for belching out substantial fireballs if they'd been sat idling for a while before throttling up...


That was fixed in the early to mid 1980's as I recall :wink:

salopiangrowler's post sums it up, lessons not learnt :roll:

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Postby AlistairW on Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:23 pm

50 firefighters...?! :o

6 in a truck - that’s 8 fire trucks...

Do you think the problem with the MTU’s will be rectifiable?
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Postby phill70 on Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:56 pm

AlistairW wrote:Do you think the problem with the MTU’s will be rectifiable?


Yes of course they will, most things get fixed eventually.

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