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Your example at Rugby is an interesting one as if you’re on the Down Fast (through road) both diverging lines are 125mph at Rugby Trent Valley Junction. You get a PRI (Preliminary Route Indiactor) for this junction, well two, which gives you an indication of what route you’re taking so the move...

This is especially the case at AWC where working just 1 rest day can lead you to working 11/12 days straight in a row. It’s mentally and physically exhausting when you combine 3/4am starts.

It’s certainly become more of the norm for the sector unfortunately. Some internal staff in the talent pool are on courses in May and July for NW depots (Manchester I know of certainly) so things are certainly moving along even though it doesn’t seem it at times.

Blasphemy! I couldn't dare say on a public forum what I think of boxes at Stockport!!! :oops:

This. It's gonna take a while to get through!

Early shutdown on the AWC Manchester to Euston route with last services around 5pm. There’s also a 50mph speed restriction on for quite large chunks of the route.

I think there’s also talks of a blanket speed restriction between Euston and Rugby tomorrow from 18:00

Yeah the SDO at Stockport platform 0 is definitely not class 390 related as 9 cars don’t have operational SDO (but could be retrofitted in theory). You’d only find a Pendo going through there if it was ECS. SDO can lock out a maximum of 3 coaches so in practice 11 down to 8 (Wilmslow plt2 and...

Yep that’s correct! Coventry is just platform 4.

Wilmslow, Rugby, Coventry and Haymarket is the full list. Wilmslow does have a daily 06:03 Avanti service that is booked to call at the only SDO platform at Wilmslow (plt2). As a whole the SDO system is very reliable so doesn’t tend to cause any issues. The down Styal platform at Wilmslow isn’t...

It looks like it’ll be total chaos tomorrow on the Anglo-Scot route, particularly heading north. All normal up until the 13:30. Then the 14:30 terminates Preston, 15:16, 15:30 and 16:30 all cancelled. 17:30 runs. 18:30 cancelled.

Yep the new card/till system thingy (I forget the name) was rolled out this week. Similarly the roll out of the new coffee machine commences next week but obviously it’ll take a while to get installed on the whole fleet.

For trainee drivers you won’t go up from the £39k band until you pass out - that is once you’ve done your 225 hours AND also signed off your initial core route. I’d say you’re looking around 14-18 months from starting your course to going up the next salary bracket (slightly varies depot by...

Not true. Spare drivers can pick up cross depot work on the day; it happens all the time. Not true. Each depot has a small quota for guaranteed leave. Anything over that quota is declined. It’s always a common occurrence to have drivers being declined leave during popular dates; mostly...

100% not true! I’ve not even a clue where that’s come from.

A lot of rubbish that is simply untrue in that article in relation to driver T&Cs.

There’s no RDW agreement in place at the moment so expect the whole of December to be rough on the WCML.

Already 18 cancellations for tomorrow plus 6 part cancellations.

There’s been a few station overruns this evening (Heald Green, Cheadle Hulme and Styal) due to the very poor railhead conditions in the North West/Manchester area.

Yes it’s damn tight though! As I was pulled out of Euston recently I was wondering why a 390 was right up to the signal on platform 1. Certainly a long walk up to the front!