Metroman62
Member
I am a user of the line from Scarborough to York and would be interested in knowing more about it and any developments going forward.
I have read it’s history & note in the past how much bigger Scarborough station was and the other routes that joined the line and how it has declined with the reduced holiday traffic.
As a visually impaired person, I am not certain of a few things, so here are a couple of questions.
Apart from at Malton station, is the route all double track running?
I assume Malton is a single track station to reduce the costs of providing access to another platform. (I am aware Malton had more platforms in the past).
Does the single platform at Malton cause any capacity constraints on the line? Or is there enough double track elsewhere to provide lots of passing opportunities for services.
Although Trans Pennine have been providing a very unreliable service on the line, today has not been helped by the weather. I saw today from a distance a train heading for Scarborough station at a time I thought unusual for a normal service. The train was also quiet so I did not think it was a Class 68 set, I did not see the front, but the back looked like a driving coach or 802 set. I looked on RealTime Trains and reckon it was the 13:14 arrival into Scarborough which arrived at 14:43. I appreciate Real-time trains can only report the data it is provided, but it said the service had been cancelled even though it showed an arrival time and the unit running the service was 802215. Can 802s actually run to Scarborough?
I have read it’s history & note in the past how much bigger Scarborough station was and the other routes that joined the line and how it has declined with the reduced holiday traffic.
As a visually impaired person, I am not certain of a few things, so here are a couple of questions.
Apart from at Malton station, is the route all double track running?
I assume Malton is a single track station to reduce the costs of providing access to another platform. (I am aware Malton had more platforms in the past).
Does the single platform at Malton cause any capacity constraints on the line? Or is there enough double track elsewhere to provide lots of passing opportunities for services.
Although Trans Pennine have been providing a very unreliable service on the line, today has not been helped by the weather. I saw today from a distance a train heading for Scarborough station at a time I thought unusual for a normal service. The train was also quiet so I did not think it was a Class 68 set, I did not see the front, but the back looked like a driving coach or 802 set. I looked on RealTime Trains and reckon it was the 13:14 arrival into Scarborough which arrived at 14:43. I appreciate Real-time trains can only report the data it is provided, but it said the service had been cancelled even though it showed an arrival time and the unit running the service was 802215. Can 802s actually run to Scarborough?
