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It's only one path - if you look at Digswell or Woolmer Green on Real Time Trains the trains from the slow line which call at Welwyn North can follow 1.5 mins behind a non-stop on the fasts so it's timetabled as efficiently as possible. Hence why I pointed out if you need connectivity Welwyn...

Closing Welwyn North achieves nothing because there's still a need for connectivity between the likes of Hatfield/Welwyn and Stevenage/Hitchin etc as they are important places in their own right, running a half hourly service between them doesn't seem unreasonable. If there's a need for a...

ESG - Event Steering Group. Network Rail jargon for the group who (attempt to) write the timetable. Eureka - the name of the project which planned the May 2011 timetable change which was the last East Coast rewrite on this scale

Very crudely over the Welwyn viaduct there are: 2 x Cambridge fast 2 x Cambridge stopper 4 x fast line paths from the TL core (2 each to Cambridge/Peterborough) 10 x fast line paths - however it would be impossible to use all 10 for long distance paths because stopping patterns on the two...

Thanks! Context is in relation to the Transport Minister stating that the Hope Valley capacity enhancement has been made possible by HS2 funding, hence the first sentence about Huw Merriman's statement.

Gareth Dennis on Twitter (I know...) is saying it has now been deferred, apologies I can't quote directly as I'm on mobile: https://twitter.com/GarethDennis/status/1778080907036873214?t=BsYmcKITtNszIWjqi-W48Q&s=19 Despite the source I believe this to be correct, the decision was confirmed...

Given it's fundamentally the same timetable - bar some changes to stopping patterns north of York - that the industry tried to implement in December 2022 first time around, deferring it for a third time with all the issues it has seems nonsensical. Frankly it needs to go back to square 1 as the...

Highly unlikely - the ECML is 115mph max south of Woolmer Green and even if GN services were to exceed 100mph it would save a minute at best. Between Woolmer Green and Hitchin/Peterborough the distance GN services run on the fast lines is insufficient to save any meaningful amount of time and...

From purely a numbers point of view they are actually a better fit for Great Northern than the mix of 387s and 379s they will end up with, there are 33 diagrams for 37 units... Really they could do with being fitted with batteries or third rail shoes (as per the 350/1s) which would open up more...

There's probably not much demand for hourly Plymouth/Bristol to Edinburgh in of itself... but if patterns of demand are going to mean you end up with, for instance, an hourly Edinburgh/Newcastle/York to Birmingham service and an hourly Birmingham to Plymouth then joining them up is logical for...

In fairness I do agree that they are busy and I didn't propose removing them completely as others had - I was merely asking why remapping the Anglo Scottish service to TPE would be such a bad idea? Given that there are only 3 paths per hour available between XC and TPE north of York in the...

Yes, it would be a similar concept to before December 2008 alternating with different parts of the "X" feeding into Birmingham. But given north of York would reduce to hourly in this concept (and indeed with only 3tph to split between XC and TPE in reality) it would maintain the through services...

Might as well close this part of the Forum down then :rolleyes: Given the mess that has been made of integrating LNER, XC and TPE north of York in the East Coast recast in December the industry has managed to make the existing service provision worse of it's own making!

Out of interest, why is TPE serving West Yorkshire to Edinburgh not a suitable alternative to XC running to Edinburgh via Leeds? As long as the "via Leeds" service remained as Plymouth to York (noting the lack of capacity to turn back at Leeds itself and the sizeable demand from York itself to...

There won't be as many 387s moving south as there are 379s coming in as a few of the 387s are staying with Great Northern to increase capacity there. I'd bet on something like 12, if not a few more, 387s staying at Hornsey.