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Goldie

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Resolution on driver training at Seamer on Tuesday morning:

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Looking on the diagrams 3Q61 has just departed MID bound for Scarborough again, same path and schedule as yesterday, should return tomorrow morning. Hopefully it won't be tagged tonight!
 

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Yes I saw that this morning, I drove past it just before Ravensthorpe. It looked really good until I saw the vandalism. There really are some utter mindless w@#kers in this world.

I really am embarrassed to be from the same town as these f**kwits assuming they are not from the surrounding area. Granted, Transpennine's punctuality is not the best these days on the UK network and the seat to window alignment could be better on the new mark 5As but none of this is even anywhere nears an excuse to deface these trains before they have even carried a single fare-paying passenger.

Incidentally, I entered 185 139 at Scarborough, IIRC, early the other day and its leading driving vehicle had also been daubed with graffiti, it looked an eyesore. I was nearly tempted to start a thread about it but such is the pace of life.
 

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Thank you for sharing, lovely to see the night pictures.

‘Serious kit’, all pictures taken with iPhone X, the camera works really well.

I agree with you about the Class 68s, 68024 was certainly the ‘Centaur’ of attention;)
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Thank you, good play on words. Only just beginning to see daylight now on my morning journeys. In the car tomorrow anyway. Automated announcements have finally got to me! I use a Microsoft 950XL phone. Gave up on the iPhone a few years ago.
 

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This is my photo at Wakefield Kirkgate from

www.flickr.com/fenaybridge

You know, I was thinking, Scarborough is going to get its second service from York when Northern start running the service in December yet Middlesbrough is still stuck with one per hour. Transpennine should make more use of the Castleford diversion and run a second service between Manchester Victoria (keeping well away from Ordsall) to Middlesbrough through the Calder Valley, Wakefield and Castleford.

Increasingly, you hear about natives of York being priced out due to the house prices and moving to places like Wakefield and Selby. The M1 and the M62 must be full of people on a morning who are forced to use a car because there is no railway provision for them.

This time they could use the class 68s with released Intercity 125 mk3 carriages (refurbished and 2020 compliant) and see how their reliability compares to the new mark 5A stock.
 

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You know, I was thinking, Scarborough is going to get its second service from York when Northern start running the service in December yet Middlesbrough is still stuck with one per hour. Transpennine should make more use of the Castleford diversion and run a second service between Manchester Victoria (keeping well away from Ordsall) to Middlesbrough through the Calder Valley, Wakefield and Castleford.

Increasingly, you hear about natives of York being priced out due to the house prices and moving to places like Wakefield and Selby. The M1 and the M62 must be full of people on a morning who are forced to use a car because there is no railway provision for them.

This time they could use the class 68s with released Intercity 125 mk3 carriages (refurbished and 2020 compliant) and see how their reliability compares to the new mark 5A stock.

I suspect it might be difficult to justify missing out the substantial market of Leeds, plus it might put pressure having another service crossing at Thornhill LNW Jn. Castleford's a bit of a one way only market too.
 

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Granted, Transpennine's punctuality is not the best these days on the UK network and the seat to window alignment could be better on the new mark 5As but none of this is even anywhere nears an excuse to deface these trains before they have even carried a single fare-paying passenger.

Sorry, I shouldn’t laugh but the idea of people graffiti-ing trains as a protest against poor seat alignment tickles me. (“What do we want? IMPROVED SEAT-TO-WINDOW ALIGNMENT! When do we want it?.....”)


* I’m not making light of the graffiti itself of course, that’s disgraceful.
 

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Just like to thank everyone that has contributed to this thread over the last few weeks, whether by tracking down the test run timings or the awesome selection of images. it is nice to see the introduction of these trains moving closer, and good to be genuinely excited about my own local railway.
 

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(Some of us are anyway, although the oft quoted mantra coming from higher up that these new trains will solve everything that is wrong with TPE is wearing a bit thin...)

Judging on the loadings Manchester Victoria to Huddersfield tonight, they are going to need more than 5 coaches.
 

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Presumably named after the famous Huddersfield station cat.
Yes, on Felix the Huddersfield station cat’s Twitter that it’s named after him. Very fitting that a ‘CAT’ would get this name;)
 

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Just like to thank everyone that has contributed to this thread over the last few weeks, whether by tracking down the test run timings or the awesome selection of images. it is nice to see the introduction of these trains moving closer, and good to be genuinely excited about my own local railway.
I think we all feel the same way, great to have something of interest locally again. I think ‘Railforums’ are going to need a bigger server for all the pictures when the Nova 3 starts in service;)
 
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Judging on the loadings Manchester Victoria to Huddersfield tonight, they are going to need more than 5 coaches.

Although I am excited by the increase in capacity and new trains, i am very concerned that it is still not enough to meet the demand. I fear the use of five coach trains will prove be very myopic in the near future.
 

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Although I am excited by the increase in capacity and new trains, i am very concerned that it is still not enough to meet the demand. I fear the use of five coach trains will prove be very myopic in the near future.

Is there any provision in the contract for any add-on orders?
 

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I suspect it might be difficult to justify missing out the substantial market of Leeds, plus it might put pressure having another service crossing at Thornhill LNW Jn. Castleford's a bit of a one way only market too.
Personally, I think there is something in this. Formerly of the Brighouse parish, I can attest to the annoyance felt about how difficult it was to get to places lile Wakefield by public transport and it's actually a bugger by road as well, the A644 is painful. Grand Central does if in 19 minutes. It is 40 minutes by car. Other than the odd Grand Central service the journey time is an hour by rail. Diverting some of the Wakefield - York traffic from already rammed XC services through Leeds has appeal. It takes an hour to get from Castelford to York by train, half that by car. Could it be done in half an hour by rail the more direct route? These timings feel like they would be such an improvement that people would use the service, even with a reasonably infrequent service.

To be fair the bigger problem when I was growing up was the lack of any train station in Brighouse at all. If anybody is in the market for a very cool image of the first Brighouse station, take a look at this: https://goo.gl/images/rXtgEz
 
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