Recent content by MikeWM

The exact same thing happened with those services when I was last at Shrewsbury back around October. The previous WMT had been cancelled and the Holyhead was a few minutes late arriving, so there were a lot of people at Shrewsbury anxiously trying to work out which train was going to actually...

The newer stock seemed to be in the majority around Friday lunchtime/early afternoon when I was having a quick explore of the subway (first time ever!). Of the trains I actually caught, 2 were new and 1 was old - good to be able to have done both. The trains that passed (that I didn't catch)...

For completeness, having now just done this: - I asked for a Glasgow subway day ticket at the ticket office at St Enoch and, after a brief look at the rover, was issued one without further discussion. (The rover wasn't stamped). - I just got on the tram in Edinburgh. The inspector looked at...

Ah - turns out I wasn't seeing that section of the page because I didn't have the relevant cookies enabled on my desktop browser (or previously, was using Private mode on Safari on my iPad) - why you need cookies enabled to view a PDF timetable is perhaps a mystery for the ages. But at least...

Thanks, but I don't see a timetable there, just a list of first and last trains. Those have a 'timetable' link but that gives a page that has the *regular* timetable as a PDF (ie. the one not running today), a list of upcoming changes that says 'You can find out more about these planned...

Good, but it certainly wasn't obvious how to get to it as I couldn't find it yesterday, and I can't find it now. Any navigation clues, for future reference if nothing else?

Well, they're running some trains today, but its a very thinned service, just 3 trains all day from Edinburgh, a few more from Newcastle giving a roughly 2 hour service to London, and 2 hourly York terminators providing the stops south of Doncaster, plus a few oddly-spaced Leeds services...

Thanks - good to see some things running, though looks a bit haphazard and with nothing in the daytime direct from NCL to PBO (only 0730 and 1758!), but there are some more options with changes at York or Doncaster. I guess I'll decide closer to the time, based on what LNER actually end up...

I've just dropped £10 on a couple of 'insurance' advances so I can go via the WCML if necessary. I'd rather not, as it will take a lot longer so involve leaving earlier - and I was hoping to have the morning in Newcastle - but probably worth it to keep my options open. I suppose XC to...

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, and I was planning to travel on LNER on the 20th between Newcastle and Peterborough (though I haven't reserved anything specific) - is anything likely to be running? Should I be making alternative plans? The journey isn't time-critical but I don't...

Which is good. And I assume that are also still funding the Ely-Newmarket service and the Ely circular, so we do get results from it. I'm sure there are all sorts of precendents, but it does seem a bit odd to have a 6-times-a-day service with 3 run by one operator and 3 run by another. But it...

Plus an Oxford service, can't remember how frequent but I seem to recall a reasonable number of coaches a day. I remember getting one at around 0300 one rather mad night back when I was a student, getting to Oxford around 0600 and then wondering what there actually was to do in Oxford at that...

They don't seem to have known what to do about the route for some time - Ely still has a number of 'cloud 9' posters around trumpeting their previous attempt to send the occasional journey on the 9 as a sort-of Ely circular, which seemed a bit cynical given they discontinued the actual Ely...

I didn't even know that existed... Of course if it had paper timetables available in libraries etc. I may well have come across it, but as it is, I hadn't. That makes sense, yes. -- Having done those once or twice, I then tended to go for the Stratford option, avoiding the Mile End Road...

It should be noted that this has (unsurprisingly, given the timing) become one of the main issues in a set of local by-elections we're having here in the next few weeks, with the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems all promising to do 'something' about it. The Tories (who run the district council) are...