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    43074 replied to the thread East Coast Timetable Dec 24.
    It's only one path - if you look at Digswell or Woolmer Green on Real Time Trains the trains from the slow line which call at Welwyn...
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    43074 replied to the thread East Coast Timetable Dec 24.
    Closing Welwyn North achieves nothing because there's still a need for connectivity between the likes of Hatfield/Welwyn and...
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    43074 replied to the thread East Coast Timetable Dec 24.
    ESG - Event Steering Group. Network Rail jargon for the group who (attempt to) write the timetable. Eureka - the name of the project...
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    43074 replied to the thread Understanding the ECML timetable.
    Very crudely over the Welwyn viaduct there are: 2 x Cambridge fast 2 x Cambridge stopper 4 x fast line paths from the TL core (2 each...
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    43074 replied to the thread East Coast Timetable Dec 24.
    Thanks! Context is in relation to the Transport Minister stating that the Hope Valley capacity enhancement has been made possible by...
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    43074 replied to the thread East Coast Timetable Dec 24.
    Gareth Dennis on Twitter (I know...) is saying it has now been deferred, apologies I can't quote directly as I'm on mobile...
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    43074 replied to the thread East Coast Timetable Dec 24.
    Given it's fundamentally the same timetable - bar some changes to stopping patterns north of York - that the industry tried to implement...
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    43074 replied to the thread Future of the 350/2s.
    From purely a numbers point of view they are actually a better fit for Great Northern than the mix of 387s and 379s they will end up...
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    43074 replied to the thread Why are XC allowed to continue?.
    There's probably not much demand for hourly Plymouth/Bristol to Edinburgh in of itself... but if patterns of demand are going to mean...
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    43074 replied to the thread Why are XC allowed to continue?.
    In fairness I do agree that they are busy and I didn't propose removing them completely as others had - I was merely asking why...
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    43074 replied to the thread Why are XC allowed to continue?.
    Yes, it would be a similar concept to before December 2008 alternating with different parts of the "X" feeding into Birmingham. But...
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    43074 replied to the thread Why are XC allowed to continue?.
    Might as well close this part of the Forum down then :rolleyes: Given the mess that has been made of integrating LNER, XC and TPE north...
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    43074 replied to the thread Why are XC allowed to continue?.
    Out of interest, why is TPE serving West Yorkshire to Edinburgh not a suitable alternative to XC running to Edinburgh via Leeds? As...
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    43074 replied to the thread Great Northern Fleet - 379s.
    There won't be as many 387s moving south as there are 379s coming in as a few of the 387s are staying with Great Northern to increase...
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    43074 replied to the thread Great Northern Fleet - 379s.
    It's probably somewhere in the middle - I think the SE cascade will happen but fewer units will move (both GN to Southern and from there...

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