Recent content by louis97

Most likely this - https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G24849/2024-05-01/detailed#allox_id=0 It was on diversion and at present RTT does not report on this.

222007 was never a 7 car. For those 9 units to become 5 cars, 1 coach came out of 222001-222006 and 3 coaches came out of 222007 which became a 5 car as a result.

It doesn't always work out like that though, often it can be let go and held in the loop at Breadsall for the Sheffield to overtake.

For that particular train, the train before - the 0548 from Glasgow to London was cancelled.

Pretty much, on a 6 car the coach letters don't change, so basically reservations are always in the front set in the direction of travel. Obviously on a 3-car you need to swap the letters.

On a 185, reservations are A, B and C going Westbound, E, F and G going Eastbound. So a reservation in Coach E isn't an indication that the train is booked a 6 car.

Sometimes you have no choice, but avoiding it is not a bad thing. I don't think London Terminals are a fair comparison here, a good chunk of London termini are served by one main route. New Street is serving a number which diverge there so avoiding interworking serves more benefit here. Think...

There is however it isn't designed to allow for making up small delays on every section of line. 1713795459 This changes in the June timetable with longer turnarounds at New Street with shorter turnarounds at Shrewsbury. Issue with interworking is you risk spreading delay to route otherwise...

Am only going on the data on RTT, although it is certainly possible that quick station approaches could have helped with those station dwell times (something RTT won't nessessarly give a true impression of). I think the size of some of the workstations these days combined with the lack of proper...

14 minutes is very good, however nearly all of it was down to allowances, SRTs which are inflated (which is not the norm), and faster than booked dwell times. So it isn't that impressive, nor what I would describe as being able to "make up" time in the way I think was being suggested. Yes for...

And the 20 minute booked dwell at Plymouth. Bedwyn turbo maybe, however freight is by far more difficult, if a freight has firm rights there isn't much you can do if changes will not allow you to meet them.

Trains with sufficient allowances (extra time on top of the running times) in will do, as is likely in your case. Services running with traction matching the running times, and running booked route, without any allowance won't make up significant amounts of time.

Its irrelevant really, bid world is a different world. It may work in the bid but that doesn't mean it will work in reality.

Seems it was specifically held back, perhaps to avoid blocking a platform at New Street, but that is pure speculation. Ironically it was held up waiting for its attaching portion which seemed to be delayed due to a delay on the inward working of the stopper, due to a fire alarm apparently.

Not if it is attaching to another through service, you'd have the same headcode in the area twice if you do, as has already been mentioned this can affect information systems. 1713532180 Given the time of the OP, and the trains on the screenshot, this is likely to be the correct answer in this...