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    Progress on Avanti West Coast's 805/807s Hitachi AT300 sets

    I've attached some screenshots to show you what I mean. Half of the seats in Coach D are blanked out (like they would be if reserved), same with Coach C. So I wonder if this will be akin to what LNER do with Coach C on their Azuma sets, in which half of it is available for last minute...
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    Progress on Avanti West Coast's 805/807s Hitachi AT300 sets

    Pretty odd lettering in terms of coaches. It's a bit strange how it goes coaches A, B, C, D then K, followed by L, M, N, P and bounces back to J. I thought they would've kept the lettering similar to the 221s (A, B, C, D, E, G, H, J, K, L). It tells me I am unable to reserve a seat in Coaches...
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    Dangerous boarding procedures at Euston

    Surprisingly, Euston seems to be working quite well today. The platforms are being announced in good time, without much of a scrum. Things seem civilised.
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    Avanti West Coast Rolling Stock Updates

    Sod’s law would have it that my planned train was cancelled, and the alternative is operated by an unrefurbished 390002. One thing I will miss about the Virgin interior is the rather warm ambience, even though the interior is dated, the lighting is pretty soft and relaxing (especially when some...
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    Avanti Standard Premium catering

    Usually if you want to check loadings, you can just make a dummy booking via their website (do all the booking but don’t go to the payment page). Re catering, Avanti stopped the at-seat order quite a while ago. They claim to have click and collect which never ever seems to work, so it’s always...
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    Avanti Premium

    Seems to be busier on certain trains compared to others. The 05:33 ex Glasgow seems to have a good amount of reservations a week before, with most of the single seats gone. One of which was even full in SP when I looked at booking it.
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    Lothian Group discussion (Lothian City, Lothian Country Bus and East Coast Buses)

    When I first moved to Edinburgh I found the whole procedure took some getting used to, being somewhere where the buses board at the same time (and depart depending on whoever finished first). I'm used to it now and it was definitely bizarre at first, but sometimes it still feels like it takes...
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    How could Lumo expand/develop/improve?

    If they were to consider Queen Street as their terminus, one of the difficult days would be on a Saturday when the e2g is at it's full fifteen minute frequency. Even then on a weekday it would still be difficult as I'm pretty sure the weekday paths still exist for the XX:00 and XX:30 departures...
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    How could Lumo expand/develop/improve?

    A way they could avoid the competition with Scotrail between Edinburgh and Glasgow is marking Edinburgh as pick up only, because I don't think Lumo would be interested in Glasgow - Edinburgh passengers filling their trains up. If they were to run into Queen Street instead of Central, and if...
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    Question about (Avanti) standard premium

    I wonder if some of these services fill up a bit more in FC midweek, because of the combination of WFH and Office-working. I'm not entirely sure what days are more popular for commuting to the office now, but I don't think Monday would be one of them?
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    Question about (Avanti) standard premium

    One thing I have noticed is that on certain services, Standard Premium does not exist on them due to them effectively being at peak times. These are Southbound - 04:28 Glasgow Central - Euston 06:31 Manchester - Euston 06:55 Manchester - Euston 07:15 Manchester - Euston 06:43 Liverpool -...
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    No trains Edinburgh to Queen Street from 29th Jan to 1st Feb ?

    Some services seen today definitely seemed to be much busier. The 15:50 Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Carstairs (3 car only) had a lot of standees when I passed it at Carstairs, while my train (15:42 Glasgow to Edinburgh) was very light loaded (although it was a 6 car!) There was also quite...
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    Conscription.

    They definitely do seem to be trying to encourage people into the RAF. I keep seeing adverts on social media and YouTube plus television about roles in the army. Wonder if this is to try and increase the amount of people in the armed forces.
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    Conscription.

    It’s definitely getting me worried. Although it’s mostly scaremongering and bluster (people on TikTok are having a field day with it), it just seems like too much is going on now for there not to be a conflict. Most of the stories are likely words being misinterpreted, but the fact that all...
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    Storm Isha may affect your journey in parts of England, Scotland and Wales on Sunday 21 and Monday 22 January

    No worries, out of seven Ryanair flights to come into Edinburgh, only 3 landed, purely because of a lull in gusts. Re the railways, i’m currently in Glasgow Central attempting to get to Ayrshire. I aimed for the 13:15 Glasgow to Ardrossan Harbour service which was platformed but then cancelled...

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