Recent content by Peter0124

It's like when the Cathcart Circle diverts get stuck behind a Newton - Glasgow Central via Mount Florida stopper. I think they try to hold the Newton terminator at Kirkhill until they've passed the Avanti or Sleeper through.

Class 320/3s didn't have toilets when built in 1990. In 2011 they were retrofitted with them though.

Will be interesting to find out the estimates of station usage for Ayr during this, compared to before it happened.

They were, but I believe only on a set down/pick up only basis when the through diversions from Scotland happened in 2019 (ie pax could only use them between Manchester and London as I think they merged into the xx.55 services) Right now they're just passing the station though. I remember they...

As the Pendolinos can't serve Manchester 13/14, I think the route via Bolton wouldn't be much beneficial apart from during diversions like this, even if you stopped at Bolton as you lose out on serving Wigan/Warrington. In the event of 13/14 being able to be used, the Scottish TPEs could be...

No trains north of Preston today so not surprised about the lack of pax. Tomorrow might be different though.

Does anyone know what that carriage inter-connecting bendy thing is made of?

On Saturday the 1st and Sunday 2nd of June, most Edinburgh Avanti trains are VAR'd to start/terminate at Glasgow Central, meaning roughly 2tph Avanti from Glasgow as the usual services are also running...

I disagree with charging for toilets unless there's a contactless card machine. I haven't touched a coin in years

And they have their own dedicated platforms at Glasgow (And Manchester/Liverpool). Whereas at Euston it can be anywhere from 1-7 and 12-16

If an Avanti train has plenty of time to turnaround, and the cleaning is done, then why not just open it up for boarding?

If it's the xx:53 Euston-Manchester trains then the turnaround time is usually booked at 40 minutes, as most of them are booked to form off the 1Mxx Glasgow-Euston via Trent Valley services which arrive into Euston at xx:13. The 09:53 through to 19:53 Euston-Manchester departures are all booked...

A quick glance at RTT shows the inbound train arriving at 12:33 (albeit arriving about 9L as it was meant to be 12:24) 13 minute turnaround yet it was announced at I assume 12:41 or 12:42 (4 mins before dep as stated above) as it left pretty much on time.

Probably not long term when people slowly stop using the trains, or use them less frequently because of it.

It should really use 803s like Lumo, London to Stirling is fully electrified. And they are the same length as voyagers I think