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  1. MidnightFlyer

    Frighton (Brighton given a spooky temporary name by GTR)

    Didn't Virgin Trains, as was, relax peak ticketing restrictions one midweek evening in 2018 so people could get home to watch an England match?
  2. MidnightFlyer

    Wolverhampton Extension Mileage

    Though there was an entry in Branch Line News recently saying that some of the mileages along the West Midlands Metro shown in the most recent Trackmaps have been recalculated, though sadly the summary wasn't the most obvious! (Hence my conflicting sources comment.) The revised line diagram...
  3. MidnightFlyer

    Wolverhampton Extension Mileage

    I think it is 54ch from The Royal to Wolves Station, though my sources appear to be conflicting, so I am happy to be corrected!
  4. MidnightFlyer

    Stations you would rename.

    It was proposed years ago, how officially I do not know, but Oxenholme to something that reflects the fact the station's in pretty much a suburb of Kendal. Kendal Main or Kendal Junction perhaps?
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    A real case for electrification of Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury line?

    Chase line services are fast between New Street and Tame Bridge. Wolves-Walsalls serve the likes of Hamstead etc.
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    Pathing time at Durham

    That's engineering allowance, not pathing allowance. Presumably some sort of (planned) single line working or similar? ECML is bi-directional for a good distance up there I think. Edit - not planned, now I've taken time to actually read the schedules! You'll notice engineering time routinely...
  7. MidnightFlyer

    Which were the largest settlements in Great Britain never to have had a station on the national rail network?

    Waterlooville? May have had some form of tramway etc. but I don't think it ever had something which, had it survived, we'd call a 'national rail' service.
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    A West to North curve at Gretna Green for Dumfries to Edinburgh/Glasgow services?

    I think the greatest indication of this is some of the paths the existing intercity services have to make do with once they get within a few miles of Glasgow and Edinburgh ex Carstairs. The relative crawl from Newton (if you're lucky) into Glasgow Central and the wait between Slateford and...
  9. MidnightFlyer

    Most Intimidating Place To Wait For a Train

    Only twice I have ever felt on edge travelling around the country. One was on Byker station (I think it was) on the T&W Metro one night a few years ago - it seemed like every dodgy character on Tyneside was amassed on the opposite platform with the usual behaviour / language / activities. They...
  10. MidnightFlyer

    London Euston status

    Wasn't there a few proposals all announced by the same company at once? I remember one for Euston - WCML - Barrow - Carlisle around the same time.
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    Trivia: Current services where the train reverses ends, mid-journey.

    Nottingham - Skegness at Grantham (though it is possible to avoid by taking the third side of the triangle at Allington).
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    Trivia: Failed onboard entertainment trials

    Used to have the onboard radios on both Virgin Voyagers and Pendolinos - 4 channels IIRC on the former and about 15 on the latter, including a few BBC national stations. Must be getting on a dozen years or so since they were switched off, though they are still visible between seats - even as...
  13. MidnightFlyer

    TRIVIA: Britain's most underrated visitor destinations

    South West Scotland is absolutely lovely, that and the rest of the Borders is one part of the world I really need to explore more of (once I can go outside again, obviously ;)). For me, southern Scotland suffers much in the same way that the North Lancs - East Cumbria - West Durham traingle does...
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    Trivia: Stations Not Relative To Settlement(s) They Serve - Size, Facilties, etc.

    I'm too young to remember Carstairs station before the bulldozers visited, but from photos it looked rather overengineered during its final few years between most of its service vanishing and the demolition of the buildings. Looks much less impressive these days, but at least it does now have a...
  15. MidnightFlyer

    Why does Chiltern run a Stratford-upon-Avon/Banbury – Oxford Service?

    Runs to Banbury only from the May LTP timetable https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P65568/2020-11-05/detailed
  16. MidnightFlyer

    Trivia: station codes with letters not in the station name

    Yes. Curiously, Garston's old code was GRM, which also fits the theme of this thread. [Garston Merseyside, to differentiate it from the one in Hertfordshire.]
  17. MidnightFlyer

    Send with a Cheque...

    What's a cheque? ;) Never written one, though still receive them on occasion.
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    Trivia: Disused Railway Infrastructure that is still visible today

    On the subject of viaducts, I'll do the customary Meldon post! https://goo.gl/maps/qLtkeJ9FHkK6WAH89 (Though it is wonderful so many are preserved today, I still wish we'd kept some of the others - Belah, Crumlin etc. Such a shame to have so many great feats of engineering vanish forever.)
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    Trivia: Disused Railway Infrastructure that is still visible today

    Probably easier to list all the old infrastructure that has been obliterated :lol: A couple of the ones I always notice when out and about: Lowgill Viaduct is still obvious from the WCML just south of Tebay (to the east). It's the old branch towards Ingleton, which Wikipedia tells me closed in...
  20. MidnightFlyer

    Question about terminology

    'Signing' is a crew member's knowledge of either a route or form of traction - if they 'sign' a route or type of traction, they can work them. Diagrams are the body of work on any given day for a resource (be they traincrew or physical units) - e.g. a Driver on Avanti West Coast may do Glasgow...

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