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Loco hauled set running this Sunday between York and Chesterfield via Leeds

York 10.34 Chesterfield 12.07
Chesterfield 13.03 York 14.28
York 14.44 Chesterfield 16.05
Chesterfield 17.04 York 18.29
York 18.45 Chesterfield 20.07
Service provided by WCRC Mk 2 with loco’s either end.
 
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Tractor37 said:
Loco hauled set running this Sunday between York and Chesterfield via Leeds

York 10.34 Chesterfield 12.07
Chesterfield 13.03 York 14.28
York 14.44 Chesterfield 16.05
Chesterfield 17.04 York 18.29
York 18.45 Chesterfield 20.07
Service provided by WCRC Mk 2 with loco’s either end.
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Nothing on the National Rail app, also when asked today no XC controllers knew anything about them.
 
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Nothing on the National Rail app, also when asked today no XC controllers knew anything about them.
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It's all in Realtime Trains now, but they won't appear on National Rail unless someone adds them in manually, as they show as "Unadvertised Express". They are shown as being operated by WCRC, so there's no need for XC Controllers to get involved with them.
 
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D6700 said:
It's all in Realtime Trains now, but they won't appear on National Rail unless someone adds them in manually, as they show as "Unadvertised Express". They are shown as being operated by WCRC, so there's no need for XC Controllers to get involved with them.
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They are to assist LNER passengers in their travels due to the closure of the East Coast Main Line. They will facilitate them in connecting to use other TOCs
 
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Pretty much perfectly plugging some of the gaps in the drastically thinned out XC service...
 
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Cheers for that. In the end they only ran York to Sheffield then ECS to Chesterfield to return. Due to being advertised as charters the only people travelling on them were enthusiasts or rail staff in the know. Shame.
 
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Cheers for that. In the end they only ran York to Sheffield then ECS to Chesterfield to return. Due to being advertised as charters the only people travelling on them were enthusiasts or rail staff in the know. Shame.
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I bet the ECS move upset some enthusiasts who were hoping to stay on the set all day long. Bit like a few years ago when Northern had loco hauled extras on the Bolton line, where they would terminate at say Chorley before running ECS to Preston before working a semifast back towards Manchester
 
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D6700 said:
It's all in Realtime Trains now, but they won't appear on National Rail unless someone adds them in manually, as they show as "Unadvertised Express". They are shown as being operated by WCRC, so there's no need for XC Controllers to get involved with them.
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That's me jumping to conclusions, as the KX shutdown coinsided with the industrial action on XC!!☺
 
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Tractor37 said:
Due to being advertised as charters the only people travelling on them were enthusiasts or rail staff in the know. Shame.
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The 13:20 from Sheffield was shown as a normal service on the station screens and departed with around 150 passengers on board, rising to nearly 200 from Wakefield into Leeds. Railway enthusiasts were only a small part of that. This train, at least, was a very successful people mover. I can't vouch for the others, although I do know there were conflicting messages on the station screens at York, due to the background data in the system.

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That's me jumping to conclusions, as the KX shutdown coinsided with the industrial action on XC!!☺
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No worries! It could have been a right mess with the industrial action, combined with the engineering alterations, but I feel these trains helped get people shifted, although very little was known about them beforehand.
 
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