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2 cars is ample off peak. Peak of course on this route does include summer weekends and school holidays as well but common or garden weekday day time trains will rarely load more than 50 people.

The Crewe service running through to Nottingham again opened up a lot of long distance journey connections that previously might have gone via Manchester or Stockport - they carry a lot of passengers from the East Midlands for Chester, Manchester via Macclesfield and the West Coast Mainline...

No, XC and most of the EMR 170s have no CCTV though it is being fitted during their refurbishment. I think they're firmly in the minority now though.

They bounce dangling couplings up rather than them getting caught under the boarding and destroying the crossing in the process.

It's 153376, not 156376. It's a class 153 converted into an infrastructure monitoring unit. Prior to that since 153 conversion it was a Central Trains/East Midlands Trains unit for it's entire passenger service life.

None of them on a weekend as far as I know, bacon roll, frittata or vegan sausage sandwich at best.

It's the never used for that purpose Eurostar depot on the down side opposite Longsight. I think Northern use it nowadays.

The whistle is just to draw attention and as far as I know isn't mentioned in the rules at all. The hand signal "one arm raised above the head" with or without accompanying baton or lamp is the rule book "platform duties complete" hand signal.

As long as there's a host available then most trains (but not all) do actually have a Sunday first class Sundays nowadays so you may well be surprised and get something. It's nothing like LNER or Avanti though.

The same unit was the cause of the cancellation of the 1945 service after the crew refused to do a second round trip on it after the experience of the first one with Bank Holiday revellers.

They are - there is a not particularly large pool of drivers on them regularly, often from the spare link. Getting new drivers up to speed with diversions has been patchy back to Stagecoach days. The logistics of learning and then passing them as competent on the route are tricky though some...

Correct, drivers have link based route knowledge though there is a spare link that progressively come to sign everywhere though that does take years. Diversionary route knowledge is very patchy amongst drivers and almost universal amongst guards.

The problem is a lack of Romiley route knowledge. The trains weren't cancelled until the day before so you can't just run to Sheffield as there is no driver allocated to run the train at all as they don't hold the route knowledge for the diagram so can't be allocated to it as the original turns...

Given the train is already delayed, if I allow passengers off for this reason I always advise them of the "terms of engagement" and will keep my side of the bargain before dispatching the train - that might cover "don't go further than the car park, but I will come and shout or blow a whistle...

It's not unheard of. EMT/R and XC have covered bits of trains occasionally for each other for years - I remember maybe 10 years ago seeing the last Nottingham to Leicester formed of an XC 170 and crew (and it's happened since) and also a 222 between Nottingham and Derby on what should have been...

They are but they're still having work done on the tables which have been reported as failing to meet crash worthiness standards, a National Incident Report was sent out about it a few weeks back.

Requested to divert to Kensal Rise to meet an ambulance to deal with a suspected heart attack on board.

Units now on refurbishment, struggling to get parts (particularly 158 wheelsets), reliability still trending downwards rather than up particularly for 170s and also 222s.

I think the white on black works fine and it's an interesting read - nice work

Suggestion is withdrawn due to "loadings and fleet issues".