Recent content by MontyP

It seems to me that the modern railway can only now function efficiently/effectively in predictable and well-planned circumstances, and seems unable to cope whenever something happens that disrupts the planned/standard day-to-day functioning. Whether this is disruption caused by malfunction...

I think there used to be 18 per hour in the high peak evening out of Waterloo, the standard 2 per hour on every route plus the extra Epsoms at 1700/1730/1800/1830. Similar in the morning inbound peak but I think the extras came from Teddington via Kingston (plus the short lived weird Esher...

There's been an awful lot of "hopefully" associated with the 701s for a long time now! As a wise mentor of mine once said, hoping for the best is not a project management technique that he would recommend!

It would have been a coach load, that's all - all the Pendolinos were stuck at Preston!

I ended up waiting at Preston from 1045 until 1315 and then caught the additional 9Z55. Which picked up lots of passengers at Carlisle who had taken the coaches from Preston! I won't add to the suggestions thread on bi-directional signalling etc. What strikes me whenever an incident like this...

And still there by the look of it!

Which train are you on? And where is it now?

I am currently at Preston having been on the 0830 Euston to Glasgow which has been terminated here due to a broken down train at Carnforth (looks like 4S60 is the culprit). Any advice on alternative routes? Advice here at Preston is to wait for a rail replacement coach to Carlisle but no sign...

Can anyone share a link to anything related to the 2021 proposals?

So basically (as a novice when it comes to train planning) grade separation is not necessary on a basic 2-track junction, as the crossing moves can always be (in theory) timetabled to be at the same time? Simplistically if a junction exists from origin A to destinations B and C, then it should...

Because the Torygraph likes to stir up a bit of trouble and give its reactionary readership something to have a good moan about?

So that's pretty much back to 2-hourly (finally!)

Very much doubt there is the demand to run an entire separate train for Glasgow.

Euston-Glasgow via W Mids has been cut from 2-hourly to 4 or 5 per day although I think the missing trains are being reintroduced in the next few months. Waterloo-Guildford via Epsom has gone from 2tph to 1tph except in the peak Waterloo-Dorking is the same. Waterloo-Hounslow-Waterloo circulars...

Autocorrect! Clearly doesn't know about Croy :D 1745930302 Cuts on the Waterloo suburbans (Hounslow loop, Worcester Park/Epsom services), reduced frequencies on the lines out of Bradford F Sq to add to the list (although there is probably a separate thread for this!)