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@sjpowermac; I do not have a magic plan to make everything better, and one may not be possible. My gripe is that I have no confidence in the management. Two weeks ago they cancel so many trains until 5th January but after 5th January everything was supposed to run. Now, the cancellations last in...

Given how terrible the service is on TPEx I do not understand why the same small number of contributors to this thread are sympathetic towards them. Maybe you are Leo Goodwin and his cronies? The level of cancellation is intolerable in my opinion

Actually the North East TPEx service have turnarounds of 27 minutes and 29 minutes in the new timetable thus removing the issue you fear!

But Manchester Airport bound the Middlesborough (now Redcar) and Newcastle have been swapped. It's xx43 from Newcastle now rather than xx15. With some extra padding this means that turnarounds are ~30 minutes at MIA. They now have the timetable they should have started with in May 2018 on this...

According to the Northern Fail app we have suffered the following number of cancellations; Friday 13th December; 174 full / 156 part Saturday 14th December; 285 full / 159 part Sunday 15th December*; 163 full / 68 part Monday 16th December; 182 full / 114 part (might still creep up a little) *I...

The carnage at Warrington Central

I am NOT being sarcastic. TPEx have lost the plot and deserve the sort of media vilification that Northern get. They are beyond the pail.

Imagine at Huddersfield where people expect a 15 minute service to both Leeds at Manchester and do not check timetables to get to work. There will be riots and quite rightly so.

In the early days 150s were used on through services from Hull to Llandudno!

So the new timetable is a mess already. No running Edinburgh extensions is fine in the short term but having to precancel trains on the main network is an absolute disgrace. Transpennine Express management are some of the most ridiculous human beings to ever exist, certainly on a par with...

Well the last few days has seen 2 x 2car 150s on the morning Lime Street to Wilmslow in place of 2x3car 195s. Today is 150+156. Northern can shout about Lincoln introduction all they want but as others have said; on the original 195 routes their appearance is not where it should be!

Of course!

I love the thrash of the CAT but I don't want it outside my bedroom for 30 minutes at 5am when I am trying to sleep thank you! Yes 1E23 (05:56 LIV-SCA) started from MCV today because of some problem with Freightliner trains entering the Trafford Park terminal. The ECS move from Longsight to LIV...

I witnessed 2x5 car Azuma's today at Harrogate. There were quite a few staff observing and it appeared to be performing all possible shunting moves at the station.

It could be the train they use to spray and clean the railhead of leaf mulch.

To add to Spartacus' comments such early morning services are prone to engineering work diversions. For example, sometimes the CLC route is used and sometimes Chat Moss. You could not timetable a call at Warrington Central for example, or indeed Stockport without having to regularly arrange rail...

LNER; I notice the Highland Chieftain is slowed down by ~5 minutes between Perth and Inverness. This is compensated by speeding up (presumably under Electric Power) between Edinburgh and Stirling. Obviously we ALL knew on this forum that the bi-modes would never keep to 40 year old HST sectional...

I am not sure that reason code given is correct, this train spent 20 minutes at red signal outside my apartment! The preceding Northern stopper and also 1751 EMR Liverpool to Norwich were also affected around the same time. My feeling is Castlefield corridor congestion in all three cases with...

Tonight 1F94 (1950 Airport - Lime Street) was a 2x3-car 195, it remained peak-hour strengthened. Had this diagram been like this all day? (Westbound departures are 07:48 from Wilmslow, followed by departures from Man Airport at approx 10:50/13:50/16:48/19:50)

Well on the Coast Route it was mainly pacers with the odd 150/156 from what I remember. From York it as 158's on the hourly service which at the time alternated between Lime Street on the Transpennine route and Blackpool North via Copy Pit. Loco hauled trains were phased out before the onset of...