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Except they are not wholly electric units, they are tri-mode and they will be doing exactly what they were purchased to do. This fleet is a step forward in only using diesel where it is actually necessary and not because one or more sections of route isn't electrified. As has already been...

Looks to be based on the previous timetable period, some trains on Saturday that are no longer booked a 10-car are not reflected as such.

The issue isn't really knowing where the back of the train is, ETCS level 2 already knows where the back of the train is so it can enforce speed restrictions, etc. You enter the information on train formation as part of ETCS setup. The issue is proving a train remains complete, related but not...

Yes a 195 has been via Derby, the evening working eventually became a little bit earlier and that was booked a 195 in the later days before Northerns route knowledge via Derby got cut. Those trips were for route knowledge retention, Northern used it to run an 0919 departure from Nottingham on a...

Unlikely the journey times will be sped up as XC will be more than happy with the extra dwell time at Derby.

What gives you that impression? There is less trains today traversing Cardiff West Junction than there is normally, that is the pinch point because of all the crossing movements on the flat.

The two distants will be to avoid having an over braked section like there was before. Before there was a 3 aspect distant in the tunnel with full braking distance to the next signal, this meant when you approached it at a double yellow, you had a full braking distance to the next signal alone...

At Hitchin, the flashing aspect sequence for Down Fast to Down platform is as would be expected for 4-aspect signalling. However for the move from Down Fast to the Flyover the signal which would in a standard 4-aspect flashing aspect sequence be at a double flashing yellow is held at double...

There is flashing yellows onto the goods lines, this means you can't have flashing yellows into platform 1 as there would be an overlap between the flashing aspect sequences. I suspect it was decided it was more beneficial to get freight onto the goods faster than the passenger trains into...

Nothing archaic about it, those are the standards for a 25mph turnoff off a 100mph line, not an uncommon setup across the country. The turnout needs a speed increase to 40mph minimum to be compliant for flashing yellows.

The service was not booked a pair of 334s, it should have been a pair of 318s. There was no swap at Motherwell, the inward trip was incorrectly displaying 320317 (it is showing the pair of 334s on TRUST, so some sort of error feeding to RTT). 320317 was allocated another departure from Milngavie...

Sounds like it could be booked 7 on the local platform plan then, this would require a manual alteration every day. I had a look last week and it seemed to use 7 all week. As its allocated 8 in the timetable it is still an alteration according to what is advertised. It sounds like the staff are...

Its possible the local platform plan has it booked to use 7, although I am not sure if this is a thing at Cambridge, obviously no big issue having that as an alteration every day with it being on the same platform island. Unfortunately there is no perfect way of showing the platforms in this...

Its very much a possibility that the signaller was just in auto-pilot and thought it was booked 4. That seems to be what most of those services do during the day. If that was the case, any delay caused would be picked up by them and hopefully they won't get caught out again.

If you look at all 3 trains however, they all took nearly a minute longer than the SRT between Hanslope and Milton Keynes. The first two had a clear run and overall did the section between Hanslope and Ledburn in the booked time. 1R22 however did not and then spent the engineering allowance at...

1R22 had 1Y19 Cross down fast to down slow ahead of it at Ledburn, so that accounts for most of that time loss I suspect.

In todays case if 9R20 had been held for both 1R21 and 1R22, it would have ended up in the path 1R22 ended up dropping into anyway. So I don't think it would have made much difference to 1Y16 which crosses at Ledburn and 1W18 which crosses at Hanslope. There is potential that it could have been...

The maps available on the Northern website does show both rovers as valid on this route - https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/rangers-and-rovers/rovers#north-west-rover I suspect the line was removed from the map on GB Rail Rover when the service was withdrawn, likely purely because of...

The loop being north of the station at Tondu already cuts the section just enough to make it work (along with the 5mph section being south of the loop), the line is due to be re-signalled at some point (already postponed at least once) and this will bring the loop into passenger use.

Due to the works at Water Orton XC services are diverted via Lichfield, this takes around 20-25 minutes longer between Birmingham and Derby. This puts the trains out of their usual path at Derby, they then wait at Burton/Derby to run in the path on the other half hour to Doncaster (this is the...