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Twice a week, Shipley to Manchester Vic. ♂️. Direct or cross platform would be bliss. (At the moment of course, Northern is more reliable than TPX, and often half the price.)
Once the roof and internal cladding are complete, I understand attention will then turn to the floor. Apparently the current is said to not meet Network Rail’s slip/skid requirements.
Is there any evidence of ‘Connect’ not happening, or is this just one of those internet chat/thread things that just snowball. If I remember rightly the 195s had pretty much been wholesale condemned on here just a matter of weeks before beginning service.
Can anybody explain why Hull (pop 260K) always gets the raw end of the service, I.e. stopped and only to Manchester, whereas Scarborough (pop 82K) gets the express and all the way to Liverpool services. Is it just inertia or the need to clock-face York? One would have thought an ‘M62’ service...
Possibly changed after timetable change? Was definitely ‘a thing’, and got paid out! Booked through employers third party system, but must just ‘scrape’ off nre or a toc?
A few weeks ago, I was on the 1833 ex Kings Cross to Bradford FS service on a journey to Menston. The advertised change for this service is an easy same platform change at Shipley for a Bradford FS - Ilkley train. The LNER was unexpectedly late ex Leeds and then sat for ages outside Shipley...