james60059
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I'm looking at having a trip on Thursday 6th May, going Leicester - Nottingham - London St. Pancras International - Leicester, (1D43, 1B63, 1D68 respectively).
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Trips travelling on (or seeing) the final remaining EMR HSTs
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I'm going 9th of may. Hope it isn't too busy and that they are still running
All services via Hendon Flyover that day.
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Threatening termination of the train at Bedford due to window hanging on the 1144. Some people just done listen. Supposedly some BTP have boarded too
No one hanging out as it passed Bedford cam on railcam..going into London
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Police did board. Good to see people following the rules...now
Going real slow around Hendon and Cricklewood. A lot of engineering and long trains of what looks like dirt trucks.
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Glad you got a trip in! Looks like it was early into St P despite the work / any antics on board. All well overall hopefully.
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If they're still running by then...
Hopefully as I’ll be travelling to Sheff after work. If not, there’s a train to Leeds a few minutes after.
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Yes we got in about five minutes early. Despite the increasingly cross announcements about window hanging there was little delay and saw people taking pictures from car parks road islands and farms and probably as many train enthusiasts aboard as commuters/tourists. Overall a good experience
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With a lot of LNER trains out of service (I assume) lots of travellers need the EMR fleet to be in service, so people need to behave with regards to that. Some people simply have to travel eg vital work or to get to see a very ill relative for example. Lets hope people do not make an already hard situation worse.
This was really frustrating. I was on the 1752 - arrived at Plat 6 in Nottingham when we were told to go to Plat 7, and an HST came in - but as soon as I'd got on was told it was being withdrawn from service. A disappointed train manager on the 1752 explained that it was enthusiasts' behaviour. There were a lot of enthusiasts at Nottingham station with cameras at the front of the train, and sadly I think without extra staff pulling this from service was inevitable. 1752 quite busy, all pairs of seats taken in my carriage with people standing - and enthusiasts with cameras walking down the train occasionally too.
I don't get this need to hang out of the windows though, really does ruin it for the rest of us - saw a tweet from someone asking EMR if they could stick a GoPro out the window...
Did you get any impression of what proportion of the busyness was due to enthusiasts versus displaced normals ?
Think is there was a lot going on on MML yesterday - including possibly displaced LNER passengers and works in Thameslink territory adding more than usual at Bedford and Luton Airport. But as the HST went to the depot before the 1752 departed, some clearly came over and boarded ours back to London/South. I didn't see exactly how many but if all the enthusiasts that were on the HST on the way up were on ours that would explain some of the loadings for sure. Was the busiest journey I've had in a long time.
Ah thanks. It's looking as though the ECML situation should be under control in a couple of days anyway, so that should hopefully solve some of the issues !
Perversely, cancelling the HSTs and running Meridians instead might leave *more* capacity for diverted passengers if it means that people don't travel just for a farewell trip.
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I was intending to have a trip to the MML to see 43102/43274 today, but they are being prepared for a filming day tomorrow and are not out. As I am not too concerned with riding them, I thought that I might move my trip to tomorrow instead, to see them on the filming day. Does anyone know if they will be out on the mainline as part of the filming day, and if so, where would be a good place to see them?
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The 2040 from St Pancras to Sheffield was a 7 car 222. Quite full as far as Luton and Bedford. By the time we arrived at Derby.. Only a dozen passengers transferred to the reinstated HST brought out of the sidings to regain its diagram.
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This mornings 06.34 from Leeds via Nottingham ran with no problems reported.
There are more than enough LNER Azumas running today for people not to need to divert to EMR. Passenger loadings are still far lower than normal.
Next week though people in England can book hotels or equivalent for leisure purposes.
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No issues that I could discern today, services running to the diagrams I expected - I was on 4 HSTs and I only encountered good natured staff, travelers being sensible (at least where I could see) and window announcements by no means OTT.
Not crowded, plenty of room for social distancing.
All very good. Go while you can!
And well done to all involved at EMR.
Not crowded, plenty of room for social distancing.
All very good. Go while you can!
And well done to all involved at EMR.
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Sorry - I can't answer this but occurs to me that there may be a decent chance those power cars will be on the Branch Line Society / 125 group run on thurs 13th? (I am making a guess here)
I thought this was listed as fully booked yesterday, but this link now seems to no longer say that...
You may want to post your query in the EMR HST diagrams thread too?
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Any trip report updates / pics from anyone from todays EMR/125 Group/ Branch Line Society tour?
ie this working
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
would be interested to hear how it's going / how it went.
ie this working
Realtime Trains - 1M17 1021 St Pancras International to St Pancras International
Realtime Trains provides live realtime running information for the Great British railway network using open data.
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
would be interested to hear how it's going / how it went.
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I was on 16.45 from Nottingham and 19.04 from St P today friday.
Neither crowded, no social distancing issues. Plenty of space in Std really, 1st all bays taken but by baording early I had no problem.
Good humoured staff (a few extra on board to keep an eye on vestibules but nothing heavy handed in any way) and the nice touch of handing out Destination labels as souvenirs to passengers. Well done to all staff concerned.
Seems to me EMR are handling what has potential to be a tricky thing in a well balanced way. I guess saturday's planned last day has the ingredients to be a fair bit busier however.
Neither crowded, no social distancing issues. Plenty of space in Std really, 1st all bays taken but by baording early I had no problem.
Good humoured staff (a few extra on board to keep an eye on vestibules but nothing heavy handed in any way) and the nice touch of handing out Destination labels as souvenirs to passengers. Well done to all staff concerned.
Seems to me EMR are handling what has potential to be a tricky thing in a well balanced way. I guess saturday's planned last day has the ingredients to be a fair bit busier however.
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So with the EMR HSTs now fully withdrawn, I can imagine there will be upcoming movements to their new fates (i.e. storage or in 43102’s case preservation) - anyone know if any moves have appeared yet, or an indication of when they’ll happen?
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