BTS Broken Down for 30 minutes

[Noisyaircon2020]

The BTS broke down earlier and there was a long disruption. As a passenger, it is very frustrating especially during COVID.

 

What are the reasons the skytrain breaks down for so long? (Genuinely curious as I have zero engineering knowhow)

[CharlieH]

Someone forgot to top up the electric, another 10 baht coin in the meter and all sorted ????

[tonray]

32 minutes ago, Noisyaircon2020 said:

What are the reasons the skytrain breaks down for so long?

Any mechanical device is subject to breakdowns. Have you ever owned an automobile ? Did it ever break down for more than 30 minutes ? The long term reliability record of the BTS (and MRT) is pretty good, occasional hiccups are to be expected.

[Crossy]

Don't even think about London underground or Singapore metro, both stop on a fairly regular basis.

 

Checking with my contacts.

 

 

 

[digbeth]

There was a lot of disruption when new extension or rolling stock gets used for the first time, and when they did a big upgrade a few years back, but in the past year it's been free of disruption so far. 

 

Mechanical things needs maintainance to keep going, sometime they break and you fix them, it is possible to have break down free system but the maintainance to have that level of uptime might cost too much 

[Liverpool Lou]

On 6/30/2021 at 4:54 PM, Noisyaircon2020 said:

The BTS broke down earlier and there was a long disruption.

What makes you say that it was "broken down"?   30 minutes seems a bit quick to get technicians to it and fix a broken down train. Where was it stopped?

[kynikoi]

Less than a year ago there was a spate of disruptions and breakdowns.

 

MRT never. Funny that.

[digbeth]

12 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What makes you say that it was "broken down"?   30 minutes seems a bit quick to get technicians to it and fix a broken down train. Where was it stopped?

They didn't fix the train, they had another car came and shunted it off to the depot, the delay is probably the spare train coming from the depot to drag off the dead one

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, digbeth said:

17 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What makes you say that it was "broken down"?   30 minutes seems a bit quick to get technicians to it and fix a broken down train. Where was it stopped?

They didn't fix the train, they had another car came and shunted it off to the depot, the delay is probably the spare train coming from the depot to drag off the dead one

Really?  How do you know that, were you on the same train as the OP (who hasn't been back since he started the thread)?  If you were on that train, how come you didn't mention it in your first post on this thread where it would have been very relevant?   Where did the OP's "breakdown" occur, what time of day?

[Noisyaircon2020]

On 7/3/2021 at 10:50 AM, Liverpool Lou said:

Really?  How do you know that, were you on the same train as the OP (who hasn't been back since he started the thread)?  If you were on that train, how come you didn't mention it in your first post on this thread where it would have been very relevant?   Where did the OP's "breakdown" occur, what time of day?

Afternoon, around Siam

[Liverpool Lou]

18 hours ago, Noisyaircon2020 said:

Afternoon, around Siam

So what happened, was it at the station or between stations on the tracks, was an announcement made? 

 

BTS trains have frequently been known to remain at stations for extended periods with announcements that the delays are "due to heavy traffic".     I'm curious about the specifics that you seem reluctant to enlarge on because BTS trains are not known for frequent. lengthy, mechanical breakdowns.