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How will we tell the difference ?

The emergency timetable only seems to cover Euston/Northampton, at least as far as their website shows. What about the rest of the network, have they totally abandoned it ? [edit] well the Trent Valley and Brum southwards at least have an advertised timetable at...

Yes that's pretty much the sort of thing I was thinking of for an emergency timetable, across the LNW network. Then TELL the passengers what trains are running where and when. Instead of the present situation where a unit sits in a platform for hours, neither staff on the platform nor...

Even having a workable emergency timetable to recover from problems would be a good start.

It's not because of holidays - for all of this month there have been numerous daily cancellations blamed on lack of crew. Although I personally believe it's more likely that the traincrew are in the wrong place due to the incredibly fragile diagrams, which fall to pieces at the slightest incident.

and points failure at Wolverhampton ... though they don't really need the infrastructure excuses or the staffing excuses, the timetable collapses all by itself from the knock-on effects if anything is more than 30 seconds delayed anywhere on the WCML.

Hope they're not planning on using those screens to inflict advertising on us :-/

Still at Stafford on Friday evening ! It's not been a good week for moving things around the network mind you, whether in good health or not ...

Thanks for the correction, knew I should have looked it up before posting :) I found a description of the initial installation and noticed that it was supposed to have a day/night mode ambient light sensor, but hard to guess whether this is just broken or whether the LEDs have lost most of...

Agreed the 323s are still good units underneath it all after all these years. Considering the dim and dismal present-day state of the unit fitted with the experimental LED lighting - is it 207 ? - I'm quite glad they haven't gone that route since it doesn't get maintained ! I did notice that...

I had my first trip on a refurbished unit on Thursday, unit 202. Not exactly impressed I have to say, it seems quite a poor quality job. - the seats are still the same tired, squashed, saggy, uncomfortable bases, just with new moquette. - the public address amplifiers are still shot to pieces...

A few years before my own time in that place, but I have read that the Quy branch was the Fenland location for such extra-curricular activities.