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Looks like Sheffield - Manchester will remain a single 185 which will only run as a double in the peaks.

Lincoln would be another sensible option for a destination east of Sheffield for TPE. Perhaps with stops at Worksop and Gainsborough on route. There has been talk of a local service Sheffield - Worksop eliminating the stops en-route to allow a fast service.

I had to travel from Glasgow to Mallaig on a 156 that's toilets were flooded and out of service by Dumbarton. It was packed to the rafters too! Cue the unedifying sight of dozens of tourists (male and female) weeing in plain sight on desolate platforms throughout the Highlands.

Is Sheffield the largest city in Europe with no electrified railway?

Even if he means Sheffield Midland that was refurbished before this Government came into power.

Perhaps Super tram will extend toward Doncaster to replace some of the stoppers.

We use them whenever we go on holiday, saves the cost each time and pays for itself probably 6x over a year.

The EMT are certainly better than the TPE services which are usually standing room only when I travel (usually off peak).

Those Manchester - Sheffield services are bursting at the seems. If they're not being increased to 3 x ph they really need to go 6 carriage.

Is there the capacity South of Piccadilly for these additional services to Macclesfield, Stockport & Northwich?

Not much for Sheffield in this (except for the additional Worksop service).

Looks like SWT won't be as cheap between London and Exeter in future... The cheapest bookings from July 18th onwards have gone from £13 per journey to £22.50, near enough a 75% rise!

Do the Watford DC services use the new trains too?

I really don't think Nottingham, Derby or Sheffield will appreciate the loss of downgrading of their intercity links to the capital if as expected the stops on HS2 are out of the cities.

Trying to get the Welsh Assembly to pay for it I guess.

Have EMT retained route knowledge into Manchester with HST as they ran covering the period of WCML upgrades? Otherwise Could Liverpool fans run up East Coast to Leeds and change to TPE there?

Can they not run specials via the Chilterns or even MML and over the Hope Valley?

Add in Mossley & Durham to that list. Isn't Sandwell & Dudley actually nowhere near Dudley?

Thanks for all your help, if I can't nab a £15 direct fair with FGW this week I'll book with SWT instead and spend a few hours in Exeter on the way down.

I suppose as long as you're at Waterloo nice and early and prepared to run for a good seat the second the train is announced then it'll be worth it, would hate to be standing all that way though! The money saving is just too great though so going to have to do it this way I think. Are there...