Recent content by naverag

Yes. I've not actually experienced the rear set being locked out of use for a while (commuting mostly on the 0808 from Sheffield and the 1818 from Man Pic). There was a week or two in January where it happened several times in quick succession but since then it's either been 6 cars in use or an...

From memory it was 6 on Monday 24th but 3 on Tuesday 25th. 3/3 so far this week, though!

Yep, 3 again today.

No. This thread's most-mentioned service, the 0626 Cleethorpes (0808 Sheffield) towards Manchester was 3-car.

Which reminds me. When the South Transpennine trains do manage to be 6 car, how are they managing at the Airport? Before the December timetable change there was talk that it could only be managed - from the point of view of platform occupancy at the Airport - by dropping a unit off at...

Tuesday was 3 car as well.

Conductor on board the 0808 was reporting that a train at broken down at Cleethorpes last night and that this was the reason for the short forming.

0808 from Sheffield (0626 from Cleethorpes) was 6 coaches today... but was then half an hour late mostly due to having to wait at Sheffield for a member of staff - I'm guessing a second guard - who had been delayed coming from Manchester. 1818 from Manchester Piccadilly (1753 from Manchester...

When would you need to leave to be sure of getting there on time by car, though? I wouldn't have thought it was much later than 7:14.

The 0808 from Sheffield was indeed 6-car.

I get the 0808 from Sheffield Monday-Thursday and will post next time I get it and it's 6 car. It hasn't been since that first day.

Yep. I get it Mon-Thur and the only day it's been 6 car was that first Monday. Pretty certain even the 0505 Cleethorpes to Airport - which has been booked as 6 car since I started this commute a year ago - was 3 car as the rest of its diagram is 3 car on JourneyCheck.

JourneyCheck also reporting that the 1553 Manchester Airport - Cleethorpes and the 1753 Manchester Airport - Cleethorpes will be 3 coaches instead of 6, despite the fact that AFAIK neither of them has ever been 6 coaches.

Of those 20 Guildford is the smallest in terms of passenger numbers, followed by Bristol Temple Meads and then Reading. Though Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International are much smaller.

Well that's what I thought too but the announcements at Sheffield have definitely been saying the opposite since May. Also, the front set needs to be the one with seat reservations due to short platforms at several stations along the route, so if the front train is the one that drops off anyone...