Recent content by Waverley21

The West End of Princes Street is rather remote from the city centre, is it?

Network Rail has just sent out a mailshot to all homes with all the details, plans, pictures about the Waverley capacity upgrade. You can find a copy here: http://www.egip.info/media/8473/edinburgh-waverley-platform-extensions-project-leaflet.pdf

I've had similar problems with CS booking site. A few times services months in the future have been sold out, only to discover when phoning up that there is plenty of space. No answer to complaints, but it looks as if you need to ensure that you have logged out and log in afresh for each...

Loadings can be checked here: https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/rail-travel/your-journey/train-seat-availability/

But both routes depart from the same end of the station ..... You have to go to Waverley, where the WCML departs from the west end of the station towards Carlisle, and the ECML departs from the east end of the station towards Berwick and Newcastle.

A major problem with the taxi rank in Market Street is that the taxis just take over the entire road thinking it's a giant taxi play park. They queue outside the defined rank, they queue on the opposite side of the road, and then there's lots of dangerous u-turns taking place, they double rank...

For the record, NEW is Newcraighall. Never understood how that code was available for a fairly modern station.

Better not be leaving ABD on a Friday. 0752 is dry as far as Newcastle!

Yes, even if you travel First or Solo, you can't lock/unlock your cabin door from the corridor without the assistance of the attendant. So, anyone could wander in while you're in the lounge. Best not to think about these things!

I was on that service. While breakfast was fine, there was no further food on offer. Every time the trolley passed the stewards checked where people had joined the train and asked if they'd had food already. After NCL, there was nothing doing for those boarding at EDB. And the service was...

That's not entirely correct! Scotland has its own listing system, where Category A is the rough equivalent of the English Grade I. Waverley Station is Grade I: http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:30270 There are quite a number of others - Glasgow...

Calton Road entrance has been closed for most of the last month to rebuild as step-free entrance.

Even when the project is going well, the Evening News will always scrape around for a moan. Evening News and Scotsman are masters of finding the most negative language possible. When the York Place diversion started, they ran basically the same story every day for a week, with the barest twist...

These website menus say breakfast available until 11 am. Thought you were lucky to get a bacon butty after 9.30.

Penmanshiel gets me every time.