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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    If they're demolishing this week, what are they doing between the 29th and the end of June ?
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    Direct Aberdeen to Penzance cheaper than services with changes

    That it's much quicker to travel by the WCML from Edinburgh to Birmingham than by the ECML via Newcastle. About an hour quicker.
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    Levenmouth rail link to reopen: project updates

    https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news-press-releases-latest-news-media-release/public-consultation-shapes-exciting-1 Press about the new Fife timetable incorporating the Levenmouth services
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Question. While there seems to be an impasse about the training programme for existing SWR drivers, can we assume that all new drivers will complete their training including the 701?
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    Glasgow-Ayr services

    The latest information in a construction newsletter is that further demolition is required with an eta for completion by 17th June.
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    London to Edinburgh/Glasgow Question

    Everything mentioned above reinforces a greater tradition of Intercity travel from Edinburgh than from Glasgow. A further factor is the road network - the A(now M)74/M6 have been excellent for many years and are generally not crowded North of the Lake District. The A1 is still not fully dual...
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Formal opening today by Huw Merriman. Usual BS in the press release
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    Unexpectedly Backwards to Birmingham on Avanti West Coast

    I remember another thread where it required to run, "backwards " because the wipers at one end weren't working.
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    Bright Bus Airport Express service

    I had occasion to visit the airport twice in the past two days. I saw several Brightbus services. All but one seemed virtually empty, the one (inbound) was 1/3 full.
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    Glasgow-Ayr services

    They're not meant to be demolish the whole building which is listed I think. Unfortunately as they work forward they find more and more structural issues and they are having to carefully dismantle more of it.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    The issue is the lack of capacity between Stockport and Manchester. Another 'benefit' of cancelling HS2a
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    Strike dates announced for Scotrail

    Overshooting is quite likely if adhesion is worse than expected. Stopping short means that the driver has forgotten the length of the train which is unacceptable in a professional grade. I'm sure many drivers write down the number of coaches in case they forget.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    It was planned and designed long before and has benefits quite independently although these will also assist the rest of TPU.
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    Haymarket to Dalmeny electrification

    Westminster has ensured that its capital spending in England generates the minimum Barnett consequental capital allowance for Holyrood. The cancelling of HS2a will reduce this further.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    What's neat about this project is that it is geographically defined and has a clear end. TPU has sites all over the place. Also, more decades ago than I care to admit, (and before the old layout was reduced ) we used to travel that way to the inlaws in Derby.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    The pictures in posts #8and #14 clearly show a grassy meadow, not a salt marsh, so not there.
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    No trains to call at Altnabreac for the foreseeable future

    The couple were in court in Wick this week accused of stealing NR property
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Major progress since Sunday's pictures with all track in final places.
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    DfT appoints Alex Hynes as Director General, Rail Services

    I'm sure that the latest stats show that cancellations in scotrail are lower than at any other TOC, partly because they reduced services to a level for which they actually had traincrew.
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    Scottish Citylink

    Then it should say FO

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