Recent content by SHerr

Not really ‘not staff’ as I am but as I worked for a non-operational department I am taking the liberty! In the early 90s working for the Civil Engineers Dept in the days where you undertook site visits by train if you could, I was stood at Darlington station in Orange waterproof coat, drenched...

fair point, I realised after I posted what time it sets off! Although looking at National Rail Enquires there’s a 05-54 stopper that gets into Leeds 15 mins behind the LNER so add a few mins onto that and now you’ve only got 6 or 7 mins turnaround at Leeds to couple up, crew to change ends, load...

Whilst the 24 mins is clearly not ideal there are a number of other things that need to be taken into consideration. Firstly the Huddersfield to Leeds Route is extremely congested and the service will need to be pathed around the existing broadly clockface timetable. (4 fasts per hour on the 15...

There has been a pacer running on the York to Scarborough line this week so I am assuming the route learning mentioned here has commenced. now to start the rumours that they are the intended traction!!!

I’m wondering if there’s a bit of an issue here with all/most of the fleets that’s not quite come out yet due to partial introduction. Both here and the class 68/mk5 discussions are now inferring a 185 diagram still remaining after full fleet introduction. All of TPEs new trains were ordered...

I am predicting the following issues on route along the journey: On leaving North Pole all the presents are rammed onto 5 sleighs because the second 5 sleighs didn't turn up - but be grateful you got half a service rather than none. Delays then occur on the South Western section following...

There’s a mk5 set in Platform 7 at York at moment and looks like it was cancelled from York. Another trip on the Coastliner bus for some!

TPE are still announcing a diagram cancelled today due to Vandalism. 07-09 from Newcastle and onwards through the day - does anyone know what happened and how many units are affected? Considering how many 802s are supposedly accepted it sounds strange to still be cancelling trains on Thursday...

I’m on that service and was wondering the same, it does seem to have 2 hosts which infers it is planned but could still be just a nice one off. They are however splitting it at Victoria as presumably until timetable change it may not fit in allocated platform at the Airport.

That’s good news- I had visions of 6 car sets running around with 3 locked out for half of the journey. Just need to make sure you get in the half with the host on any longer runs - unless the guards are going to start serving teas in first class! (Joke - before any come on and lynch me!)

Just out of interest, can TPE actually staff all of these services if they went over to double sets? North Services cancelled all over the place due to staff shortages- I know that’s because they are training for new stock but presumably they need 2x hosts and 2x guards/train manager for every...

I’m not sure there are any SP diffs on the Trans Pennine main line (certainly not core North Route), but also I think 80x are RA 5 (I believe the same as a 185) which means they couldn’t run to SP diffs anyway as I believe that is limited to RA2. There are SP diffs on the Hull line from...

Currently sat on one of the damm things at the moment as Northern seem to have started sometimes putting them on the 17-42 York to Leeds via Harrogate instead of the normal 155. 142018 for anyone interested.

I watched the service leave last night at the same time on the way to my train, platform 3 was packed as in your photo and it was fun watching how many people scattered when the driver opened her up just as the the loco passed the big crowd!

Does anyone know why so many of the test runs are doubled up - considering no plans to do so? Do you get 2 for 1 on your fault free running?