That is just what the service is pathed as and does not reflect that it will be a HST or not. I believe this service has always been pathed as a HST but is booked as a voyager which is also the case for a few other Scotland - South West services.According to RTT 1V54 0806 Edinburgh - Plymouth is HST on Monday 12/12/22.
As far as Birmingham New Street on Tuesday 13th & Wednesday 14th
Plymouth on Thursday 15th
Birmingham New street on Friday 16th
Just posting what I have read so don`t all jump on me if this is wrong lol
Remains the same.
I do check RTT a lot & don`t remember seeing that one but I may have missed it. We will know more on Sunday I suppose. See what ends up at Craigentinny
Hopefully that includes Saturdays.
Presumably aren't enough for ensuring that there is adequate capacity, which is correct as anyone who has recently been left behind or rammed into a vestibule due to overcrowding will testify.
Certainly is the usual 2 diagrams today.
thanks - i hope the other trains are doubled up as much as possible!
From what i understand there is a 0611 from Leeds to Plymouth and a 0606 from Edinburgh to Plymouth. ( although the line is blocked today somewhere past Exeter so they aren't running through today)
Thanks very much
Unfortunately not. I've noticed in recent weeks things have actually gone backwards in terms of capacity.
It does feel alot like the Manchester to Bournemouth route is the only one that matters to XC now....
As far as diagrams including depot movements are concerned, the usual possible three still seem to be possible to be worked by HSTs (those starting as 1V44, 1V50 and 1V54 southbound), although at the moment the later seems to be a Voyager working. Hopefully with the uplift in CrossCountry services from the timetable change the later will once again be an HST.
I'd be surprised if they run four all-day diagrams from May as a) there's not a cat in hell's chance of the C6 programme at Wabtec being complete by then and b) as none of the sets start or finish at Laira, there will have to be a swap-out set and I can't see LA being able to guarantee the maintenance set being able to swap out.
It does seem odd this XC obsession with the HSTs having to start their day in the north. Fine if your a northerner , but for those of us down south , it'd be nice to have one train in the morning that allows a reasonable arrival time in the north that was formed of decent traction.
The main reason for those diagrams if I recall correctly is to have the sets on the busiest arrivals/departures at New Street. In particular 1S51 needs the capacity of the HST as it’s a peak time departure from both New Street and Leeds, so it doesn’t properly empty out until Newcastle. Additionally there’s only one other suitable diagram from Laira - an out and back Edinburgh working on 1S37/1V68. It wouldn’t surprise me if 1V46/1S53 remained Voyager operated in practice, with occasional unbooked HST appearances on 1S37/1V68.
