Caledonian Sleepers stop there to attach/detach locos or runround when running via the ECML. As it's showing Carstairs then Edinburgh, I'd guess this is for the ECML diverts. It shouldn't be showing as a passenger stop, that's a data error (one I tried to get some computer verification for but the cost couldn't be justified).Why does the train reverse there?
Thanks for explaining.WMBYEFR, is 'Wembley Receptions 1-7', where the train reverses.
The literal translation is something like Wembley European Freight Reception sidings 1-7
No.can you buy a ticket to there?
No; it would have to be a location in the fares system for you to be able to do so. There are around 12,000 TIPLOCs (timing points that can be used when creating train schedules) but only around 2700 stations/locations you can buy tickets to/from.can you buy a ticket to there? I’d quite like to see that on a printed ticket
That’s a shame. I’d quite like to go up to the booking office window and ask for a “Day return to Wmbyefr please”.
It would be double f if it were on the Heart of Wales line.That’s a shame. I’d quite like to go up to the booking office window and ask for a “Day return to Wmbyefr please”.
“A day return to where? Is that on the Heart of Wales line?”
There are a number of examples:The PIS in Windermere trains often shows a signal, (I think it is something like CE52). From memory I think it shows “the next stop is Oxenholme sig CE52”
I’ve also seen it very rarely on departure boards at stations. As it scrolls it shows something along the lines of Lancaster, Oxn CE52, Oxenholme, Kendal.
And the Class 397 occasionally shows the next stop as Princes Street Gardens.
Easily fixed if somebody let's Train Planning at QMK know.Some Crosscountry services show Abbeyhill Junction on CIS screen.
This has been happening for years, at least 4-5 that I’m aware of, and yes they’ve been told.Easily fixed if somebody let's Train Planning at QMK know.
Yep, I did do quite a major sift through about 6 months ago, which also ended up uncovering, once and for all, that the * had to be first otherwise it was pointless, but because there's not computer verification of the location codes to this level it's always an uphill battle to catch the errors.This has been happening for years, at least 4-5 that I’m aware of, and yes they’ve been told.
Also appears on a couple of LNER every now and again.
During Carlisle diverts for LNER, London road junction at Carlisle often appears on CIS and also on the train PIS.
It's possible, even probable, it was bid incorrectly. However NR do validate the sleeper schedules and the opportunity to correct it was missed (understandably, given the pressure they're under). It's also quite possible that these errors are cyclical, and they're being bid to NR badly because they're based on offers from NR that have bad data in them in the first place. And certainly if you were faced with the choice on a Friday afternoon of fixing data codes that made no real difference to trains running or making sure junction margins were clear, you'd pick the junction margins every time so that trains that weekend ran on time.Why the race to blame MK, do you know it wasn’t bid like that? Doncaster (used to?) go through these weekly, has that stopped for some operators, should be picking up before day of operation at least.
It depends if they're templates or if they just roll over the offer from the last time it ran.As some of these locations crop up frequently, it's possible that some of the errors are embedded in the templates that the TOCs use to create the bids in their own train planning systems. Getting those templates corrected as a one-off exercise would perhaps save hours of editing the schedules after they have been bid.