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Seems to be an incident at Birmingham New Street with all services suspended / cancelled.
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/birmingham-new-street-20240424/
ideally. to gain a balance between additional capacity and operating costs, I guess the only option with existing trains would be to reform the trains into 6 or 7 cars using the centre cars from some units and scrapping the ends, that way you get a uniform fleet and remove the need for doubling...
I’m not sure that’s entirely true. Half of the problem with XC today is as a result of Operation Princess improving demand through improved service. It just didn’t have enough stock to deliver upon the growth. One of those business plans that only works if all parts are delivered and as they...
Seem to be overlooking the fact that the Cross Country franchise received new stock far earlier than many other ‘Intercity’ TOCs did during early privatisation. The Voyagers aren’t ancient.
It was really common in the Central Trains days for Cardiff to Nottingham trains which were late running to be turned around short at Newport, announcements used to be common advising to change at Newport. I recall journey planners also used to generally advise a change at Newport instead of...