Recent content by lione87023

I'm almost certain this won't happen in May/June 24. December 24 at the very earliest for the 2 hourly Glasgow-West Midlands services.

It's still 221 operated as it forms 1D83 0902 EUS-HHD.

For shortest I would say either City Thameslink to Farringdon or City Thameslink to Blackfriars would be contenders.

Pre March 2020 Birmingham New Street had 3 xx30 departures. Virgin/Avanti to Euston, XC to Cardiff Central and XC to Newcastle. It was let down by the fact that the XC to Manchester was at XX31...:lol:

I believe there is a late evening service from Alloa to Stirling.

There was a 17:** evening peak Deansgate to Stoke-on-Trent service for many years formed with a Class 323 which on its inward ECS working changed ends in the reversing siding near Old Trafford. Also weren’t there Manchester United Football Ground specials formed with pairs of 323?

Because the ’Old Line’ via Weedon is a fast route with (pre COVID) 10 expresses an hour (9 Avanti and one WMT EUS-CRE) off-peak. There are no passing loops on this 2 track railway. There are, however, goods loops at Northampton. Most freight traffic has a max speed of 75mph and when container...

The service between Northampton and Birmingham is still 2tph from December 2021 vice 3phh pre-covid. This also includes the non-running of the previously long standing 0516 NMP-BHM (SX) which hasn't run since March 2020 and was a damned useful train. Also with AWC not increasing their...

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