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    What's happened to 1L98 at Nuneaton today? (20/02/2024)

    A freight train (6C36) has failed at Frisby on the Melton Mowbray route and is awaiting rescue. There is already a Cambridge-bound XC in Platform 4 at Leicester awaiting events as well as an EMR service in Platform 1 so I presume the decision has been made to hold it at Nuneaton as the train can...
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    NCL -> YRK engineering this weekend

    Core works are a renewal of some point work at the north end of the station and a partial reconstruction of a bridge just south of the station.
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    ECML Disruption 09/01

    It was 1S01 06:08 Doncaster to Edinburgh which hit someone near Sessay. 1S29 has been released to return to York with XC 1V83 (06:24 Newcastle - Reading) still stood at Thirsk and LNER 1Y11 (06:30 Newcastle - Kings Cross) at Northallerton.
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    (Trivia) Scheduled passenger services that terminate after 2am in the morning

    York has two services terminating post 2am. The 23:42 and 00:38 both from Manchester Airport terminate at York at 02:17 and 03:13 respectively.
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    Can anyone identify what train this was ........ St Anne's at around 0230-0300 on Monday morning

    They were doing tamping overnight Sunday into Monday on the route so I would guess it was the tamper they could hear / see.
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    Engineering works between Newark and Darlington 14-15 October

    It is testing for the new Electrical Feeder Station at Hambleton, north of Doncaster. There are four Saturday nights of it although two of them are shorter times so are less disruptive to passenger services. The possession limits are Retford to Northallerton and apart from the test train, which...
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    CrossCountry HST Diagrams

    06:09 Leeds to Plymouth (1V44) is the only booked HST on Saturday 16th.
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    New Street partitioning

    The works go on until November. They're taking pairs of platforms in 6 week blocks but are generally finishing early making all platforms available for a period of time before they take the next pair.
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    XC Shortage of train drivers

    Engineering works between Cheltenham and Bristol meant they were diverting services via Gloucester and Newport so had to thin the service down to hourly. Some additional strengthening on Plymouth - Edinburgh and Manchester - Bournemouth services with the spare stock.
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    LNER unreliability caused by staff shortages

    ECML is being shut at around 3pm on Christmas Eve with York Station being closed to trains at 15:15 to allow Network Rail to start the renewal work early.
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    TRIVIA: Stations with Wetherspoons

    I seem to recall from my student days that Aberystwyth has one on the station, complete with platform terrace.
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    Engineering works query

    There are engineering works between Luton and St Pancras Saturday and Sunday so everything to / from the North is starting / terminating at Luton with buses running between Luton and Hitchin. The East Coast Main Line is also blocked between Peterborough and Grantham so the Norwich services are...
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    January 2022 - Emergency Timetable Threads

    They're cancelling 16 weekday services a day currently (12 Leeds and 4 Lincoln) but no further reductions planned at the moment. LNER passenger numbers recovered better than most TOCs last year so probably hoping they can ride it out.
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    Werrington grade separation updates

    They're the "official" first passenger services to use the dive under with various local dignitaries / DfT representatives etc on board. They will be using the dive under, however the geography for the dive under doesn't go live in Network Rail planning systems until the December timetable...
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    Entire 800/801/802 fleet stood down for safety checks

    Currently have 0 9-car bi-modes, 4 5-car bi-modes, 8 5-car electrics and 19 9-car electrics available. Rumours are they're expecting most of the fleet to be back in service by the weekend.
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    [trivia] Longest walk between platforms at a 2 platform station

    High Wycombe has a fair old hike from Platform 1 to 3. Not only is Platform 3 offset from platforms 1 & 2 but to get from 1 to 3 you need to walk down platform 1, double back on yourself to walk the length of platform 2 and then head over a footbridge.
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    I have heard that Arriva are doing something similar with Grand Central, although not seen anything official released as FHT did.
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    Has a 323 ever made it to London?

    They don't appear to be route cleared south of Bletchley on the WCML. That's not to say they weren't in the past however.
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    May 2021 Timetable Change

    The ECML re-cast in May 2022 is probably where they will be looking to get improvements. Although as every Operator wants improvements, the extent to which their paths are improved could be limited. Depends who shouts loudest...

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