British Rail Class 222 - Incidents

Incidents

• On 10 June 2006, 222009 working 1D17 1030 London to Sheffield had to be taken out of service due to a door open at Desborough, Northamptonshire whilst at speed. The door unlocked while the train rushed through Luton, opened north of Kettering, and in Desborough the train was stopped when a passenger reported that the door was open.
• On 26 January 2010, 222016 working a London service was involved in a fatality. 222016 has now recently re-entered service with a new cab, painted all-yellow making it look different to the other members of the fleet. It is identical to the rest now(excluding the numbers), because EMT repainted its cab to the standard livery.
• On 19 October 2011, 222104 working 1C27 0847 Sheffield to London had an engine fire at platform 2 at Loughborough. It is thought the fire was due to oil leaking onto a hot part of the engine, the train was evacuated and a fire crew called.
• On 20 April 2012, at 0844, an East Midlands Trains Class 222 unit pulled into Nottingham Station where both the driver and station staff noticed smoke coming from underneath one of the carriages, the engine underneath the carriage had caught fire from overheating, the engine had overheated due to day-to-day grime which had built up underneath the train and then been heated up by the movement of the wheels. Both the train and the station were evacuated, there were no injuries.