Grand Central appear to be running a 0504 Wakefield Kirkgate to Kings Cross and 2152 return...
Has this idea been postponed as I can’t see any timetables or RTT
Grand Central appear to be running a 0504 Wakefield Kirkgate to Kings Cross and 2152 return...
GWR and Southeastern up.
If anyone can explain GWR's new booklet numbering system I would be grateful!
Looks like maps have gone missing from the eNRT now too.
Add that to all the incremental issues from the last few years which are still present - no sleeper timetables, no operators pages, no 'crossing London' etc. pages, no national maps, and no single volume. Gets worse every release.
Plus the link from http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/timetables.aspx - the first search result for 'national rail timetable' - is a 404 not found.
Lovely
The latest version of the eNRT contains new versions of tables 26 and 41, and the former now includes the London-Leeds services. No revised table 65, consistent with the response quoted here.Ref Table 26, we have updated this Table and it is currently with our Websupport team for uploading to the relevant web page. It should be available within the next couple of days
Ref Table 65, I have noted your comments ref 19.07 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street and we will check this for the next edition
I suspect that the initial letter is a very broad reference to the general area served by each set of timetables
B = Bristol & surrounds (including South Wales)
D = Devon
K = Cornwall or Kernow
T = Thames Valley
God knows - I'm only voicing an educated guess on the revised numbering!What was wrong with the East/Central/West numbering system?
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned in this thread (I haven't read through it all), but the parliamentary service at Teesside Airport is being reduced to just one train towards Darlington now; at 14:56? on a Sunday, with the service towards Hartlepool no longer calling there.
Good spot that.
Looks like the 11:07 Darlington - Hartlepool has been retimed to become the 13:14 Darlington - Hartlepool.
Wasn't there issues with the footbridge?
There are issues with the bridge (it's been propped up by scaffolding for many years, and there is a sign telling people not to stand on the bridge); so presumably this is to allow the footbridge to be decommissioned without being replaced. It's like what happened at Pilning all over again, except Teesside airport doesn't get an extra service from the platform that remains open to compensate.A very good spot, indeed @DanNCL . Looks like Teesside Airport will be taking a leaf out of the timetables of Reddish South and Denton.
6tph Leeds to Manchester, it was originally supposed to happen in December 2017.May, along with the related TPE changes?
I'm hearing that the GWR changing there 5 carriage turbos for 4 carriage 387s. Anyone know how many carriages that are scheduled to run at each diagram? So much for the whole more capacity PR bull.
Hearing from where? Its a very long time since I have seen a 4 car 387 working, 8 car seems to be standard.
Also, there is a huge fleet of these 387s coming to GWR - to the extent it is difficult to understand where they will be used without 12 car workings.
I haven't been keeping close count but they had only 2 or 3 left to be delivered a few weeks back. People are already debating the difficulties of stopping 12 car trains at various stations before the platforms have been lengthened, eg Maidenhead. I'd agree 8 car is the normal size train, I think the Hayes shuttles have been 8 car normally since they started.
12 car trains have now begun running... although it is a bit of a farce that they don't yet fit on the platform anywhere between Paddington and Reading.I haven't been keeping close count but they had only 2 or 3 left to be delivered a few weeks back. People are already debating the difficulties of stopping 12 car trains at various stations before the platforms have been lengthened, eg Maidenhead. I'd agree 8 car is the normal size train, I think the Hayes shuttles have been 8 car normally since they started.
It would be worse if they had lengthened the platforms but not had 12 car trains.12 car trains have now begun running... although it is a bit of a farce that they don't yet fit on the platform anywhere between Paddington and Reading.
I was surprised today to find that there was an hourly fast service between Reading and Gatwick Airport. There was also an hourly stopping service to Redhill.
What made it surprising was that it's a Sunday.
In recent years it's tended to be one train an hour, with one hour being slow to Guildford then fast to Gatwick. Next hour fast to Guildford then slow to Gatwick.
Prior to that it was fast every hour and slow every two.
I thought the combing was due to less passengers on the slow trains on a Sunday. Has there been an increase in recent times in passenger numbers?
Was that not antisipated when they reduced the number of Sunday services or was the change further back in time than I remember and at a point when trains weren't so popular.The introduction of the 387s has freed up some Turbos to augment the North Downs Line Sunday service. I cannot speak for the smaller stations east of Guildford, but the old Sunday service suffered from severe overcrowding west of Guildford, particularly when the weather warmed up.