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Liverpool-Newcastle via Chat Moss is committed at weekends too - it is in addition to Liverpool-Scarborough via CLC, so the Liverpool-Manchester Airport train won't be switching. I don't know the details of the proposed ATW changes, so can't comment further on how they plan to resource it...

Well to my certain knowledge, TPE intend to run their electric services to Scotland via the Chat Moss and Golborne Jn in Dec-13, a Liverpool-Newcastle service via the Chat Moss and Manchester Victoria. These are fully committed. There is also a proposal for the ATW service between Chester and...

I believe they are using the railway for a coal train, but using lorries for moving spoil around. The coal train has to be top and tailed, and there were a lot of concerns over achieveing a safe method of working (e.g. the signals are out), so it takes a long time. I think it is only one train a...

Picked up 185140 at Preston, according to TRUST

185s do have forward facing CCTV in the cab, so that will already be in the hands of the investigators, along with any downloads from the black box software. I've seen internal railway incident reports from this crash and spoken to people who were on-call when it happened, and there is no...

Tom, I understand that bit - my puzzlement is that the 170s are timed in Network Rail's TPS as 170s, not as DMU(E), so I don't understand where in the data transfer process this gets mixed into the data that goes over to real time trains.

I'm afraid 170s are timed as 170s on all regular TransPennine routes they cover - they would only ever be timed as DMU(E) or DMU(S) if they were off a normal route and there were no official 170 SRTs available. I have no idea where the 158 notation on realtime trains has come from.

Liverpool South Parkway (High Level) is ALE - I reckon that has to be fairly high on the list of "codes you'd never guess". Unless you happened to know that it used to be Allerton.

The timetabled minimum is 4mins - I'm not sure how that corresponds to the reality on the ground (either how long it would take a normal person, or how long the unions say it would take one of their drivers!)

I would suspect that cable theft and OHLE are causes of some of the largest delays, rather than being the largest causes of delay...

Looks like a one-off - it's showing as VSTP in my systems with no trace in other weeks. I don't have the required level of access to check what the consist was, but I would guess it is a balancing move to get locos and wagons to where they need to be for another working. I can't imagine what...

Would presumably be the 07.43 Tyne Yard to Tees Yard, that passed Durham at 08.07 this morning running 9 late. I can't get my system to give me any other info about it though

The base train is via Chat Moss, at least for the rest of this timetable year, presumably for route learning/retention. What will happen when this TPE route is covered regularly by the Scottish services, and therefore that need is removed, remains to be seen...

One valid child ticket for six fare-dodging adults in the disabled toilet? It wouldn't take them long to think that one up.

Thanks for the history lesson guys - some of it was even new to me. Can you really see the DfT creating an independent equivalent of the BRB in a renationalised railway, and then not interfering and over-specifiying like they currently do in franchise world?

There is regularly a 323 in the siding opposite Old Trafford at the electrification limits, stabled through part of the early evening peak. So probably near daily use, even if not for passengers.

I suspect Sidious is querying Philip Elliot's assertion that Hargreaves don't own Hatfield, rather than bad-mouthing Network Rail. I will grant that the choice of wording is a little ambiguous though...

I think Wigan Springs Branch is earmarked as a depot as part of the Northern Hub project - pretty much any spare space in the Northwest is already being looked at as part of this enormous project.

To answer a couple of posts from earlier regarding Hull line speeds - 170s win down there because they can use sprinter differentials, while the heavy desiro-style 185s can't. However I understand that Network Rail are intending to do the trackwork required to bring all passenger stock up to the...

My favourite part is good old rent-a-quote Bob Crow, fulminating about how incompetent the DfT are, then proposing renationalisation in the same breath. Loosely translated, "the DfT are so useless they can't manage to specify a service for the private sector to run, so lets give them the whole...