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LNER at least show on their website when booking which of the four menu options you'll get - Delhi, Dish or Dine plus the hybrid Brunch menu that seems to have appeared at some point last year. They seem to have recognised a one-size fits all inclusive dining option doesn't work but it's a shame...

Whilst the new build Class 325 parcels units came along in the mid-1990s why did Parcels Multiple Units seem to fall out of favour before that? There were a small number of 302 unites converted in the mid-1980s that gained Royal Mail livery and were used in Anglia. But nothing similar seemed to...

I see Connect not being InterCity argument reared its head again in this thread, so glad to see some correction on that! They are getting 2+2 seating next year (supposedly same as the 810s) so that might encourage more Kettering passengers to use Connect services rather than the InterCity ones...

Anything slows down Corby to St Pancras services, whether extra stops or a change of London terminal will do several things: Drive more Kettering-London passengers onto the Nottinghams, which are non-stop to/from St Pancras. Potentially encourage Corby passengers to change at Kettering for...

There were a host of Mystery Tours run from Carlisle/Penrith/Oxenholme/Lancaster in mid and late 1980s. They'd be advertised in the local papers and you'd buy the tickets from the local station. Departure times between 06:00-07:00 and back between 23:00-00:00 would indicate a long day...

Short answer is no. King's Cross is keeping some Great Northern/Thameslink services that should have gone into the core as Thameslink (which is why some Thameslink services terminate at Blackfriars still as well). You would also have longer journey times if you tried diverting the Corby...

I think this could turn out to be an interesting post, and others will hopefully come with a wealth of information. Under sectorisation InterCity had a Charter Unit. At privatisation that was moved into Rail Express Systems, the parcel company. Probably be cause they had a national operators...

Splitting Trainload Freight into three regional companies was probably the mistake. If say Coal/Petroleum had been grouped and Metals/Aggregates then possibly two national companies could have been created that could have branched out (as Freightliner did). Was never sure why Freightliner was...

In 2014 two of the four remaining sections (from 29) of the Statue of Marlborough were repealed. They'd only been there for 747 years! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30334812

How much of argument could be made that flush with cash in the 1950s the focus was on the Modernisation Plan and all the new stuff, with less on where costs could be saved over and above dieselisation? The excellent railcar.co.uk site has various articles on schemes to introduce DMU operations...

Why are train tickets so expensive? Why don't we have X gold-plated retail solutions/trains/stations? Would love to see all these on a Venn diagram.

Probably why there are fewer reproduction First Class moquettes available. Coaches that made it into preservation likely had the BR designs (Charcoal, Orange variants) or NSE ones. Very few air conditioned coaches have gone into preservation, even fewer with InterCiry interiors intact. Whereas...

Yes, there were a few 'Nightider' services using SOs (Mark 2F FOs declassified and the separate headrest cushions removed). Travelled on one from Carlisle to Euston in December 1987. Some Mark 2E and 2F TSOs were modified for use on overnight trains. Usually identifiable in the Platform 5 books...

Seems my memory of 'Tiger Stripe' was a bit off - it was all orange stripes with no black. But still very bold! https://www.easternrailservices.co.uk/images/news/6415.jpg 1712090350 We can't forget the APT-P, which saw BR embrace tartan fabric seat covers...

when the Mark 2Fs were introduced the IC70 seats ditched moquette in favour of fabric, which was meant to be machine washable. An orange pattern in First Class and blue (with thin chocolate stripes) in Standard Class. I think BR tried to move to variants of orange and blue for First/Standard...

I will try track down some pictures later. I don't think I've seen 'Provincial' mentioned yet, that was a series of blue squares with a dark blue headrest used on early Mark 2 searing. It did get used in some air-conditioned Mark 2Ds and 2Es as well, but I guess the name came about as...

When InterCity started facelifting it's stock with IC70 seating in the mid-1980s the original seat squabs were used. In First Class this meant the original large headrest cushion was retained in white fabric. Once refurbishment started new squabs were used and the First Class headrest cushions...

Extensions to Woodford Halse and March make sense if it was seen as an expansion of the rationale for the original scheme - to remove steam from the Pennine freight services (mainly coal). I believe Woodford Halse was the major interchange with the GWR, so bulk hauling freight to there under...

Thank you. I remembered there was a 'Blue Blaze 2' but not what it looked like (or where used). Sticking with NSE I think the Class 159s might have had a slightly different moquette in Standard but I've struggled to find examples other than this slightly dark picture. Not sure about the red carpet!

'Donkey Stripe' is what's shown in the third photo of post four. I don't know why it was so named but it was introduced by the London & South East sub-sector. That became Network SouthEast in 1986, which is when the 'Blaze' designs came into being. London & South East had plans to introduce...