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    What if... Leith Central had survived

    The West End of Princes Street is rather remote from the city centre, is it?
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    Possible plans for Edinburgh Waverley station?

    Network Rail has just sent out a mailshot to all homes with all the details, plans, pictures about the Waverley capacity upgrade. You can find a copy here: http://www.egip.info/media/8473/edinburgh-waverley-platform-extensions-project-leaflet.pdf
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    Caledonian Sleeper discussion

    I've had similar problems with CS booking site. A few times services months in the future have been sold out, only to discover when phoning up that there is plenty of space. No answer to complaints, but it looks as if you need to ensure that you have logged out and log in afresh for each...
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    London North Eastern Railway (LNER) First Class service

    Loadings can be checked here: https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/rail-travel/your-journey/train-seat-availability/
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    [Trivia] Two routes to London

    But both routes depart from the same end of the station ..... You have to go to Waverley, where the WCML departs from the west end of the station towards Carlisle, and the ECML departs from the east end of the station towards Berwick and Newcastle.
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    Possible plans for Edinburgh Waverley station?

    A major problem with the taxi rank in Market Street is that the taxis just take over the entire road thinking it's a giant taxi play park. They queue outside the defined rank, they queue on the opposite side of the road, and then there's lots of dangerous u-turns taking place, they double rank...
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    0556 Newcastle - Kings Cross HST

    For the record, NEW is Newcraighall. Never understood how that code was available for a fairly modern station.
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    London North Eastern Railway (LNER) First Class service

    Better not be leaving ABD on a Friday. 0752 is dry as far as Newcastle!
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    Caledonian Sleeper services

    Yes, even if you travel First or Solo, you can't lock/unlock your cabin door from the corridor without the assistance of the attendant. So, anyone could wander in while you're in the lounge. Best not to think about these things!
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    London North Eastern Railway (LNER) First Class service

    I was on that service. While breakfast was fine, there was no further food on offer. Every time the trolley passed the stewards checked where people had joined the train and asked if they'd had food already. After NCL, there was nothing doing for those boarding at EDB. And the service was...
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    Network Rail plans for Newcastle Central Station

    That's not entirely correct! Scotland has its own listing system, where Category A is the rough equivalent of the English Grade I. Waverley Station is Grade I: http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:30270 There are quite a number of others - Glasgow...
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    Edinburgh Waverley Access

    Calton Road entrance has been closed for most of the last month to rebuild as step-free entrance.
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    Edinburgh Tram developments

    Even when the project is going well, the Evening News will always scrape around for a moan. Evening News and Scotsman are masters of finding the most negative language possible. When the York Place diversion started, they ran basically the same story every day for a week, with the barest twist...
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    London North Eastern Railway (LNER) First Class service

    These website menus say breakfast available until 11 am. Thought you were lucky to get a bacon butty after 9.30.
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    Things to see on the ECML

    Penmanshiel gets me every time.
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    High winds in Scotland 3/1

    This afternoon's information on Waverley via East Coast: http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/travel-information/live-travel-information/
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    XC 1st class

    Travelled from Edinburgh to Penzance with XC this summer - all 10+ hours of it, and back again. The First Class offering is definitely not up to much, although the coffee was the best I've tasted anywhere on wheels. Also extremely quiet, I was the only passenger north of Leeds, and when the...
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    Timetable mark like a "SE", "FC"...

    On Saturday the Carlisle station platform departure boards were announcing that East Coast's Tyne Valley diverts were run by "GNER". Never thought Carlisle was quite that far behind the times.
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    Eurostar..What happened?

    I once did Edinburgh to Paris, but frankly the Eurostar carriages killed any enjoyment after King's Cross, and door to door it's quicker flying from Edinburgh to Paris. By air I can almost do central Edinburgh-central Paris in the time it takes on EastCoast to King's Cross.

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