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  1. scotrail170407

    Is TfW the last TOC to use single car units?

    They can and do run as single 1 car units but as already mentioned only on shunts and ECS from Glasgow queen street, one example is this https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y35765/2023-11-14/detailed#allox_id=0
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    Stations with water refill points

    The one on platform 8 was always useful when doing a long journey on 1S51 (as a HST) if you didn’t stack up on enough before you got on
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    Unusual sighting at Perth

    The path used is normally 5H07 a 2+4/5 ECS from Clayhills to haymarket. They made use of this and put the back to back power cars today on that same path under 0H07. I’d guess it’s easier to do this than altering the actual path to go via newburgh
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    Unusual sighting at Perth

    Back to back power cars aren’t permitted to run over the Tay bridge
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    Trivia : Random Services with no apparent uses

    https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y59108/2023-07-02/detailed This one has always fascinated me, a once a week service on Sundays terminating at Inverkeithing. It is pretty useless for anyone leaving edinburgh late on sunday wanting to go further into Fife I think I remember seeing...
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Like we both said, we can’t say what the traction is. Again, it will become relatively obvious soon enough though. The Aberdeen portion fully sold out ages ago anyway.
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Yep that’s right
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    It’ll be the stock brought from Aberdeen last night, 1 lounge and 1 seated coach. I can’t say what the traction is either although it should become pretty obvious soon enough
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Because it feeds off the Lowlander which is 1S72
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    I’m surprised about how little this has been publicised. Not that that’s a bad thing of course!
  11. scotrail170407

    Trivia: Stations with barriers between National Rail platforms

    Oh whoops so it is, should’ve said Central platforms 1-15 to the low level
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    Trivia: Stations with barriers between National Rail platforms

    Yes Aberdeen still has them, platforms 7 north and south which is just one long platform. Other examples in Scotland which require passing through 2 separate gatlines are Edinburgh platforms 13-18 to platforms 6, 7, 11 and 12. And also Inverness platforms 1&2 to 3-6 And then there’s also...
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    Worst Rail Routes for fare collection in members' experience?

    Was very surprised to be checked on the last Lancaster - Preston service of the night on Monday too, the northern one that leaves carlisle just after 19:00
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    Which stations/services have seen the seen the worst decline since privatisation?

    To be fair nearly every service to/from Inverness and Aberdeen on a Sunday still stops there and the frequency of services to and from Aberdeen the other 6 days of the week at Dunblane were never really that great even before the May 2022 timetable change. There are still 2 services a day to...
  15. scotrail170407

    Trivia: Significant gaps in mobile coverage (and wifi) on the rail network.

    Practically all of the section from Bridge of orchy - Tulloch (around 30 miles) has no signal although that’s hardly surprising given you’re crossing some of the most remote stretches of railway in the country
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    Can services skip stations that are drop off only if no one has a ticket to them?

    It stopped at every drop off only station but people only got off at Dalmuir and Polmont, no one got on anywhere. I boarded this service at Linlithgow a few weeks ago with no issue, though
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    Can services skip stations that are drop off only if no one has a ticket to them?

    I was on the seasonal 1Y30 17:04 Oban - Edinburgh today (the last run of the service for the year) and overhead a discussion between the conductor and guard about our calling points between Dalmuir and Linlithgow being drop off only. This got me thinking, can normal passenger trains like 1Y30...
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    Checking train times from more than a week ago

    You can use RTT to look for services that ran beyond a week before, as long as the schedule is the same (e.g not booked to take a different route, having different timings) https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y56485/2022-08-19/detailed#allox_id=0 Take this for example, you can see...
  19. scotrail170407

    Trivia; Stations that were used for passengers only once or on very rare occasions?

    Culross had a temporary platform built in 1992 for what I believe was an open day at Longannet power station I’m very curious to know what happened to the station sign…
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    Trivia: outdated posters and signage

    Drem had First Scotrail signage in the car park as late as September 2020 and I’ve attached a photo of it, I don’t know if it’s still there or not Up until the refurbishment Anderston just had, there was SPT signage opposite the Partick bound platform, also attached a photo of that There’s...

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