Nah, the experience I described on here was thankfully a one-off, clearly someone who’s new job went straight to their head.
Exactly.
Nah, the experience I described on here was thankfully a one-off, clearly someone who’s new job went straight to their head.
There is now two. The 12:18 departure on weekdays and 12:35 on Sundays.It's in the timetable:
Realtime Trains | 1S91 0545 London Kings Cross to Edinburgh | 02/04/2022
Real-time train running information for 1S91 0545 departure from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh on 02/04/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.www.realtimetrains.co.uk
There is only one train per day each way calling at Stevenage, so it's really irrelevant information that would be cluttering the website. An enthusiast is perfectly capable of using various systems like RTT to work it out themselves.
A casual passenger is not going to care about Lumo calls at Stevenage unless they are travelling long distance and it comes up on a journey planner.
Chucked off between London and Stevenage?
So this new timetable appears to require four out of the five units to operate meaning there is only one spare. I guess this means we can expect plenty of cancellations whenever more than one unit is out of use. Unless they have a plan to borrow a FHT or FTPE unit when this happens.
It has always been the plan to have four units diagrammed from five. Unless one of the units is put out by an mishap, it really should be possible with modern units to only have one spare and run over 99% of booked services.
FHT have five 802s for three diagrams other than when strengthening is required. I think one of the Lumo units would have to be out of action on a long term basis before an FHT 802 would be used though.
The post in question referred to a Kings Cross departure.Like Watford they are watching to see who boards, then they'll go through and remove them before departure. Try it at Watford, you'll see it in action!
If the Avanti customers have a delayed arrival at Euston because of staff preferring to go through that fiasco than to leave on time, that is an absolute disgrace.Like Watford they are watching to see who boards, then they'll go through and remove them before departure. Try it at Watford, you'll see it in action!
As noted elsewhere while they are running 10 services, it isn't a full service as the last train from London and first train from Edinburgh don't go north of Newcastle.
The last train from Edinburgh on Saturdays is always only going as far as Newcastle, with the first southbound train on Sundays always starting from Newcastle. Monday to Thursday for the next 6 weeks 1S99 terminates at Newcastle due to overnight engineering work north of Newcastle, with 1E80 starting from Newcastle the next morning.
It's actually pretty common for people to use Avanti West Coast from Watford Junction to London when there's significant disruption or multiple cancellations of LNR services.
From my understanding it's a bit of both. Of course it's not common in the other direction.
That was always the claim, but the reality is not necessarily following that.
I guess that the fact that it can't run for the next six weeks casts some doubt as to how likely it is to be able to run at all, other than on Friday nights. It runs a whole hour later than any other train on the line north of Morpeth so must be at risk of regular engineering possessions preventing it from running.
Pretty sure Network Rail wouldn't have given them the path for it if there wasn't a good chance of it running regularly. There will be freight running through the night too.
Also sends a message that one person is more important than hundreds of people, which is odd
as are people who think they are above the rules.
