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Castleton usually has two trains an hour but for some reason one of the Northern stoppers has become none stop and TPE are picking up the slack, one thing to note however going east hopefully no one makes the mistake of getting on it to travel to Rochdale as the next stop is Brighouse! We...

Well 424 and 431 started the day, it looks like one or the other broke down somehow so today there are no 769s out at all as of around 11am

As you say it wouldn't work, Northern was always divided into sections (internally) because of it's size for management purposes. The sections recently were altered to align better with the various major areas such as one management team for Merseyside and one for Greater Manchester etc. The...

I think when it comes to questioning work loads, at the end of the day ROGs bread and butter is of course dragging things round and there's probably 15 to 20 years of solid messing around on the cards with various tocs replacing entire fleets of units, that's 1000s of moves of new and old not to...

Very similar to the link posted earlier by Surragu https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rail-operations-group_stadler-networkrail-freightliner-activity-7344346250080608257-rZDl?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAEtToq8B0Rus-rsug-TGVCdPNYMrNFD3CRE&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link The only...

As you say, A friend of mine working for ROG posted a video exactly of that, standing start at Shap with 1800 tones, speedo showing 15mph and rising on greasy rails! I still think these will be a success what ever they end up doing

Its somewhere in this thread that the deal for the two extra ones has come in at somewhere around 400k, not free from the ROSCO for providing such terrible trains, I suppose at the end of the day they are not responsible directly for the unreliability but even it seems slightly unfair... to the...

My favourite thing so far is that we are on refurb 2 of 8... So far the two replacement units have done absolutely nothing, are six (nearly seven) months late and have cost the good old tax payer 400K Great!

331 004 + 007 are the history makers If it carries on in service it should look like this Departs - Skipton 0917 1247 1617 1817 Departs - Ilkley 1110 1440 2040 2210 Departs - Leeds 0825 1033 1155 1403 1526 1719 2003 2133 2320 Think that's all of em!

To be fair to Ajax2001 from his posts he has done more tests and recruitments than a regular person does in a life time...

You'd think so wouldn't you but as others have said it's wound up so tightly these days that it all falls apart incredibly easily. There isn't the staff to just suddenly use because "sitting spare" isn't a thing any more because of cost cutting. The train crew diagrams on the Airport to...

Remember as well that virtually all the Blackpool trains have some kind of crew change over at Oxford road with all sorts of wild and far-flung depots covering work. It's not really a surprise they gave up on it.

There's a 1Z99 at Trafford Park so you'd assume that's off to rescue the liner shortly? Also in answer to Alexweb unfortunately no TfW don't sign via Altrincham anymore

Yes manipulating the CIS at Victoria is possible and it's a constant battle to make it show the correct train! As said Ketech won't even see an issue despite you and I both knowing that there's many so as said before to try and get them to alter berthing data or anything complicated is...

They were previously in store in the yard next to Neville Hill but that's closed now so it seems DB has just found locations here there and everywhere. There's around 20 of them in the sidings on the way into Manchester Victoria and various other places.

Thanks Alan! She's finally made it to Allerton. 421 at rest in it's new home.

I watched it leave Crewe towards Chester but then it just vanished from thin air! I can only assume it went back to the sidings? 431, 450, 456 and 458 are all out today and have been since this morning. So far so good!

3 started today and so far 3 are still out so that is better than some days!

Some times it doesn't leave the depot to do a power change over! Here's how things are looking today 424 - Allerton 431 - Out 434 - Kilmarnock 442 - Allerton 448 - Out 450 - Allerton 456 - Allerton 458 - Out Picking up the slack 150104 + 156418 150133 + 150150 150113 156459 150145

I agree with Parham Woods post that a simple message to wait for passengers to come over from a different platform would be a good outcome. I think it would be better than trying to get Ketech or Northern to try and change something that, as has been explained due to the physical layout of the...