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    WCML blockade - impact on EMR services? (29/03 - 01/04)

    I don't know if it's actually happened but there was talk a year or so ago that WMTs Stanmore operation was stopping as TfL were selling the car park land off for development.
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    Competition to name one of the Class 150s on the Marston Vale Line announced

    This competition ran for the 230s as well in 2019. The winners were Alan Turing, Paula Radcliffe and Spirit of the Vale. The naming then never happened presumably because C-19 came along and the line disappeared into oblivion!
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    Class 319 LNR withdrawal date

    It definitely wasn't today, some wishful thinking there from someone, somewhere.
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    Marston Vale line suspension over - FULL services start running 19/02/24

    They're still test runs until November or so, I believe the reasoning for a class 2 headcode is because they releasing the doors at each station. Presumably you'd be stopped from boarding if you tried however.
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    Stopping trains from departing with station staff assisting passengers onboard

    Getting "locked on" was a semi regular thing at the station I previously dispatched at; once I had it happen to me after I had waved at the guard and shouted "one moment" at them gesturing what I was doing, the second time the other dispatcher gave a guard the tip to close the doors after being...
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    Issues at Stafford - 2023/08/22

    Mate I'm giving you a fact. What's with all the conspiracy theories in this thread? Half the people on this forum are staff and will just say what's happened...
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    Issues at Stafford - 2023/08/22

    Got to New Street as it was kicking off at Stafford, only route open was to and from the Trent Valley for a fair while. Went back to Rugby, diverted via the Trent Valley (and called additionally at Tamworth). Terminated at Preston eventually, presumably a Preston crewed service with the crew...
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    Issues at Stafford - 2023/08/22

    0Z70 has passed a signal at danger at Stafford Trent Valley No.1 Junction and 1U38 has struck some remnants of a tree and sustained some faults.
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    Avanti platform staff bawling at passengers

    Same at Milton Keynes. Heard the Avanti platform staff bellowing at people (and cutting off the trains auto announcement at the same time) using those walkie talkie microphones a fair few times.
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    Disruption between Carlisle and Lockerbie - Attempted robbery of Mail train (01/08/2023)

    Not wishing to further extend the Network Rail logs conversation too much further but NR are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and they have released CCIL logs before (some are on WhatDoTheyKnow) so if anyone is that desperate to read it you can acquire it that way. See here for example...
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    Marston Vale line suspension over - FULL services start running 19/02/24

    Yes the train crew have always been Bletchley based drivers and conductors who also work mainline services. There's no specific branch line pool, infact there were some crew diagrams which had mainline and Marston Vale work in the same shift. The maintenance staff have all been recruited from...
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    WCML disruption from Birmingham NS to Rugby

    Think the incident hit 5000 delay minutes on Monday! Cancellations all over the shop on LNR.
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    Another Island Line closure.

    It's running today along the Pier, I travelled on the 14:44 from Pier Head this afternoon.
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    Project Oval: TfL win DfT contract to expand contactless system to 233 rail stations by May 2024, Railcards coming to contactless payment cards

    MKC, Wolverton, Northampton and Long Buckby are in phase 2 but when that is I don't know!
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    LNWR class 319 diagrams

    Looks like some LNR 319s were brought out to work two additional services from Rugby today although I can't find any photos. 2Z12 and 2Z14 although 2Z14 was cancelled due to operators request (perhaps due to the fatality on the Coventry to New Street route?). Link to tweet RealTimeTrains schedule
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    Can and should Network Rail postpone the WCML engineering works over Christmas?

    Here's the TSSA press release Link "TSSA members at West Midlands Trains include Control staff, Duty Train Crew Managers, Driver Managers, Senior Conductor Managers (on board staff responsible for guards), station management and duty station management, as well as HQ staff at Birmingham Edmund...
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    AMT Coffee goes into adminstration... then gets bought out by SSP

    Watford Junction's AMT site is now a Costa, full circle as that was what AMT replaced!
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    Vivarail to enter administration

    Confirmation tweet from LNR now posted.
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    Vivarail to enter administration

    Bletchley based train crew don't sign 172s (or 170s and 196s for that matter!) either. Certainly be interesting to see what comes of it now. Not good news at all for the Vivarail employees.
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    Vivarail to enter administration

    Vivarail have now formally confirmed today they have entered administration. Presumably there will be some kind of press release soon but the Marston Vale line service has now been suspended too.

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