I believe it is Blackpool crew who take the last unit onto King Street and taxi back to Blackpool unless things have chanced. Vice versa in a morning too. Was something to do with Blackburn crew not signing 158s until very recently but I think they are being trained on them now.
One would hope once bitten, twice shy ...
i think the 3 car 195 is the driver trainer from worksop ,2 cars are the norm on the leeds-Lincoln/Nottingham service at the moment (maybe 3 car sets might be regular in the future when all the units are in service)
Even odder when you consider that a two-car 221 is, by definition, a compressed Voyager!
It does it at almost constantly at Halifax and Hebden Bridge, occasionally at Sowerby Bridge, Bradford Interchange, Manchester Victoria and Leeds as well....
When I travelled from Victoria to Leeds last week, there were short platform announcements approaching Hebden Bridge and Halifax, though not anywhere else. Once platformed, there were no further announcements to say which doors to use.
Correct, but well within expectations. It typically takes 2 to 5 years for new trains to exceed the reliability figures of those they replace. In the case of Pacers it may be a little sooner since they were less reliable than the average DMU, but not by much.
Now the pacers have pretty much gone, the media need to change tact and now declare that actually the pacers were ok.
