When the trains run via the NLL, does the loco run round at Wembley? Or is it top and tailed? I'll be on the Northbound Highlander in June and will be diverted this way.
The new seated coaches are 11 rows of 2 + 1. Seats are Rows 1 to 11 with seat A in each row being the single and B + C being the two together across the aisle.Still no seated coach plan for the new stock though
The normal route from the reversal in Wembley Yard when diverted via ECML is back south to Camden Junction, freight line through the old Primrose Hill station then Camden Road, York Way North Jnc and Copenhagen Jnc on to ECML.When the trains run via the NLL, does the loco run round at Wembley? Or is it top and tailed? I'll be on the Northbound Highlander in June and will be diverted this way.
The new seated coaches are 11 rows of 2 + 1. Seats are Rows 1 to 11 with seat A in each row being the single and B + C being the two together across the aisle.
The exception is the wheelchair space 01W in lieu of 01A + 01B.
The new seated coaches are 11 rows of 2 + 1. Seats are Rows 1 to 11 with seat A in each row being the single and B + C being the two together across the aisle.
The exception is the wheelchair space 01W in lieu of 01A + 01B.
WC at the Row 1 end; cycle/luggage/guards area at the other (Row 11) end.
The normal route from the reversal in Wembley Yard when diverted via ECML is back south to Camden Junction, freight line through the old Primrose Hill station then Camden Road, York Way North Jnc and Copenhagen Jnc on to ECML.
Quite a fun route do do, rather tortuous and somewhat confusing to anyone who is paying attention to where they are, but unaware of the diversion arrangements, because an hour plus after you leave Euston, the Euston tower appears at quite close hand on your right hand side!
Each Sleeper coach is laid out pretty much as they are now.Are there any seating/berth plans for the new trains released yet?
I would like to see where in the carriage my Club room for when I travel this summer.
Each Sleeper coach is laid out pretty much as they are now.
Rooms 1-6 are the Club/En Suite rooms; then 7-10 are the Classic Rooms (no en suite).
Roughly speaking splitting the coach into three it's Rooms 1-3 at one end; 4-6 in the central third, the 7-10 at the other end.
This is of course if you get a Club Room and not still a Mk3...!
All services are max Load 14 currently due to the 8x Mk3s going off for scrap a month or so ago - so no issues with fitting in P15 (that can take Load 16 + 2x 92s)Locked out lounge car 9807 still in the rake tonight for 1S26 Lowland northbound, but there’s another (6707) in the Glasgow section as well.
I am informed that there’s a sleeper coach been removed so that the train will fit in platform 15 but I couldn’t be bothered counting them myself. I’ve had my haggis with suitable liquid accompaniment so I’m quite happy.
ECS loco was 87002, no idea what’s about to haul us as I’ve walked 9.8 miles round London today and the front of the train is just too far away.
Each 8 coach unit has:So 60% of each carriage is Club and 40% Classic?
Is every carriage (except seated and lounge) the same ,so that the 60/40 spilt applies to the whole train....?
Went via Mount Florida if that answers your question?The tslk of diversion routes made my check my Google maps history for my last trip. My phone thinks I went through King's Park in Glasgow on the Sunday southbound departure. Would that be right?
For info, tonight's 1S25 northbound Highland Sleeper is currently stood near Norton Bridge due to a freight train problem ahead (4S49 locomotive issues). No practical options exist to get round the failure, as it stands. Effectively now 2 hours late, and counting, although a rescue for the failed freight is presently underway.
493Z is the culprit, there's a few more trains including 1K63 & 1H14 stuck, 1H14 is at Stafford due to go on the slows, but not sure if that can be diverted to the fast.
The talk of diversion routes made my check my Google maps history for my last trip. My phone thinks I went through King's Park in Glasgow on the Sunday southbound departure. Would that be right?
Yes to both. Outer Cathcart Circle via Mount Florida to Cathcart North Jn then Up Kirkhill via Kings Park to Newton East Jn.Went via Mount Florida if that answers your question?
493Z is the scrambled (incorrect) headcode for 4S49...
1H14 cannot be diverted. Coaches ordered as all other reasonable diversionary routes have possessions or line blocks.
1S25 should be just South of Carlisle, but just gone through Madeley Junction that's how bad the disruption has been.
Madeley is town in Staffordshire not really near any (major) station - a completely adequate description of the location and not wibble or anything specific to RTT.I’d have a better idea if I knew where “Madeley Junctiion” was.
I really wish people would stop using Realtime Trains (RTT) to try and look knowledgeable, only to end up posting absolute wibble that’s confusing to the majority of readers. I mean both this and the (incorrect) headcode for the broken-down freight.
Why not just say which station it’s closest to? Or, in the case of the broken-down train, “it was the xxxx from yyyy to zzzz”?
Sorry to others for the rant but it’s downright irritating. At times it feels like RTT is the bane of this site.
RTT is also the bane of many TOC/FOC staff as well...I’d have a better idea if I knew where “Madeley Junctiion” was.
I really wish people would stop using Realtime Trains (RTT) to try and look knowledgeable, only to end up posting absolute wibble that’s confusing to the majority of readers. I mean both this and the (incorrect) headcode for the broken-down freight.
Why not just say which station it’s closest to? Or, in the case of the broken-down train, “it was the xxxx from yyyy to zzzz”?
Sorry to others for the rant but it’s downright irritating. At times it feels like RTT is the bane of this site.
If someone uses the name of a location I am not familiar with, a quick perusal of Google Maps normally solves the problemI’d have a better idea if I knew where “Madeley Junctiion” was.
I really wish people would stop using Realtime Trains (RTT) to try and look knowledgeable, only to end up posting absolute wibble that’s confusing to the majority of readers. I mean both this and the (incorrect) headcode for the broken-down freight.
Why not just say which station it’s closest to? Or, in the case of the broken-down train, “it was the xxxx from yyyy to zzzz”?
Sorry to others for the rant but it’s downright irritating. At times it feels like RTT is the bane of this site.
Maybe it would be better if during diversions, it stopped at a suitable location such as Finsbury Park so people could get on with their day?I can remember last year when I did an ECML divert from Scotland, how many folk got ready to alight from the train when it passed Finsbury Park (most likely used to being on the ECML where Finsbury Park is known as being a few minutes outside Kings Cross), only for the train to take nearly an hour (or so) to reach Euston.
Madeley is a town of 18,000 inhabitants in east Shropshire. It is a place in the UK and not really near any (major) station - a completely adequate description of the location and not wibble or anything specific to RTT.
RTT is also the bane of many TOC/FOC staff as well...
RTT is also the bane of many TOC/FOC staff as well...