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LNER's website states 'If your journey time with us is less than 60 minutes, please check with your host on the food options available'. York to Newcastle is (just) more than an hour which clearly implies that you should have had the full service. Unfortunately, on northbound services it is very...

All of which may be correct, but it's completely irrelevant from the customer service point of view. If catering is not available from Amsterdam then that should be made clear to customers, and from a quick scan of the Eurostar website there are no such exceptions. In any case, I don't see why...

Some hope! There's about as much space in the new shower facilities at Euston as there is in the cabin shower, unless you use the accessible one. The ensuite shower is a godsend especially if you are in a rush on arrival as it saves the hassle of dressing in last night's clothes and packing...

Fair enough, but it was the opening of the Tay Road Bridge that killed traffic on the St Andrews branch.

The enquiry desk at St Andrews bus station sells rail tickets.

Couldn't agree more. I was extremely disappointed with the bacon roll I had in my cabin the other week. Very unimpressive.

The proof of concept from earlier this year was that a 37 hauling a dead 73 could still supply ETS via the 73 to the Mark 5 coaches (just 2 on this occasion because of engineering work IIRC). Blatant plug: https://flic.kr/p/2oxauYH

Contingency cover during the recent strike by Hitachi maintenance at Craigentinny, in case a 73 burst and couldn't immediately be fixed.

For what it's worth, they're completely different mechanically as well, with 2 Cummins engines as opposed to a single MTU in the Sleeper version.

In my experience it's extremely reliable, literally non-stop from Dundee to the airport if the traffic is clear. The 90-minute frequency is a disincentive though. Fine when you are on your way to catch a flight when you want to leave some time, but not so great if the time of your return flight...

As I said though, it still refers to the Avanti lounge at Euston.

I'm struggling to find that: all I can see is a page which quotes one price for using the shower in the Avanti lounge and another higher price for using CS's own lounges. There's nothing on the Euston lounge page which just says clearly that entry is restricted. (Either way it's news to me about...

Indeed. And it perpetuates the nonsense that showers are only available at Euston to those who now have a shower in their cabin, whereas those who don't have access to an onboard shower are barred and have to traipse to King's Cross. When I raised this with CS last summer I was assured that the...

It's quite similar but not the same pattern. No. 7 is used by Delaine Buses. The same pattern was also used in blue and yellow by Scottish Citylink after its launch in 1983, and in orange and black by Tayside Buses in the 1980s.

That's interesting to hear. My experience is that I've generally slept better on the Mark 5s than I did on the Mark 3s. But it's difficult to know how much of that is due to external factors (perhaps I've been more tired? perhaps I've found the perfect quantity of single malt to consume in the...

'we will be running extra buses on the following journeys every Saturday' How much clearer could it be?

Open-top vehicles tend to be used in applications where the view is important, so a double-decker is generally better. Also, at the risk of stating the obvious, a double-decker provides somewhere undercover for when it starts raining.

...and then it gets to Aberdeen, stays there all day and brings the Aberdeen portion down the following night, which means that it's not able to do the Glasgow ecs! The Aberdeen portion ties up a loco in such a way that it's only free in the central belt for a few hours each night. 1687809162...

How does that work? The Aberdeen portion and the ECS of the Glasgow portion are running at the same time on opposite sides of the country!

No—on my most recent visit there was no way in. And the showers at King's Cross were also unavailable as the weekly laundry delivery hadn't arrived so there were no towels! It's worth remembering that shower facilities at other London termini were or remain open to all passengers on payment of...