According to TPE on Twitter:Any diagrams for today?
Nova 2 - 2nd January
Just the one diagram today.
397003
5M99, 1M99, 1S38, 1M97, 1S75, 1M95, 5H95
*Subject to usual issues.
Still considerable issues with trained staff to operate these. With trains being covered with 3 car 185s or not running at all.Better be a few more come Monday!
It would help the less informed (me) if the origin and time were included. I don't know how to find out which train is 1S38...
Also Nova today 0507 MIA to GLCNovas today
1S38 etc
1M94 etc
4 sets out today, or are those part of the same diagrams as before?Also Nova today 0507 MIA to GLC
0912 return
And 1307 MIA to GLC
1712 Return 397003
4 sets out today, or are those part of the same diagrams as before?
It would help the less informed (me) if the origin and time were included. I don't know how to find out which train is 1S38...
Novas today
1S38 etc
1M94 etc
For the record, the two diagrams are:
05:41 Preston cs 5M99 Lancaster 06:21
06:28 Lancaster 1M99 Manchester Airport 07:49
08:07 Manchester Airport 1S38 Edinburgh 11:36
12:12 Edinburgh 1M97 Manchester Airport 15:46
16:07 Manchester Airport 1S75 Edinburgh 19:37
19:56 Edinburgh 5S75 Polmadie DHS 21:12
04:34 Longsight CMD 5S30 Manchester Picc 04:46
05:00 Manchester Picc 1S30 Glasgow Central 08:20
09:07 Glasgow Central 1M94 Manchester Airport 12:46
13:07 Manchester Airport 1S61 Glasgow Central 16:39
17:08 Glasgow Central 1M92 Manchester Airport 20:48
21:04 Manchester Airport 5C92 Preston cs 22:20
Thank you, but this forum sometimes assumes too much internal knowledge of railway operations. If there is a convention to give full station names as well as their codes then I think courtesy should extend this to train codes too. Your explanation works but it's hardly intuitive.1S38 0807 Manchester Airport to Edinburgh
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y33420/2020-01-04/detailed
To be fair to the previous poster, it should be possible to read just a short distance up the thread to find out what '1S38' is (indeed no more than six posts) and also, these things only run one route so searching in RTT for Preston https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/PRE/2020-01-04/0200-0159?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt and pressing Crtl+F and typing 1S38 is enough to find out what the train is.
350-5
Have TPE recently sent off another 350 or in the depot for maintenance?
Should be 2 out on usual diagrams (think it's 397003 & 005).Does anyone know the allocations for today please?
There is normally 1 stopped for exam. Even when all 10 were with TPE they were never all in traffic at the same time.
usual diagrams
What's the reasoning behind these diagrams being selected for 397 running? I guess it's do with where the diagram starts and where these units are stabled, but are there any other factors?
There used to be a regular 8-car diagram on a Friday, leaving the Airport just before half 7 in the morning. Not sure though whether this pushed a 185 onto a Glasgow. I know there won't be regular 10-car 397 diagrams, however would this be stretched to 10 in times of the Edinburgh Festival and other such events?
10 cars certainly can't operate from Manchester Airport, the platforms aren't long enough. A theoretical strengthening unit would have to attach en route if it was going to do so.Are platforms long enough for that, or do they do SDO? I suppose they could (and use 185s on the less busy Glasgows).