Fingers crossed an EMs 156 isn't standing in for the 158 then
Are you saying Norwich-Cambridge should be 8-car?
Surely you are not serious. You do realise Ely-Norwich isn't electrified, the platforms are not long enough at all local stations & that the trains do not go through to London. I'm very confused as to what you are getting at.
Norwich has an Intercity service to London every half hour via Ipswich. All trains have 8-9 passenger coaches & soon to be 12. You seem to be missing the point of rural services.
But they just happen to be on a main line to London.
I dread to know what you make of services around Manchester, Leeds & the like then. At least East Anglia was never blessed with Pacers. Two or three cars suffice for most of the day on the Norwich-Cambridge route. Standing is only commonplace between Ely & Cambridge on those services & that's down to those at Ely who have a wide choice of other trains.
Yes it's not that rare really. Several Norwich drivers & most guards sign them. Hiring the 13:52 ex-Lime St is always an option for GA after 19:20.
Braintree is also served by 12-car trains. It has the benefit of OHL though otherwise it would still be served by 3-car DMUs as it was in the 60s.
Schoolboy errorI was on an Anglia Rover yesterday doing some pubs in Reedham and Woodbridge, as an avid Sprinter fan I should have kept an eye on Journey Check!
Mate you picked two nice places for a pint particularly the latter
to my previous post to indicate perhaps I was not entirely serious.
Something will have severely gone wrong if they are not all new trains through Brundall by then. Saying that though anything can happen. The railways are nothing if not interesting these days.
Trouble with that is it would make the GN sit a pointless amount of time at Cambridge even if platform space there where available, ruin the almost even interval half hourly fast Kings Cross departures & to be fair off peak is not the time that causes anywhere near the overcrowding from Ely. Most Norwich Cambridge 'up' services pick up no more than 30 punters at Ely during the day.
