Yes, from what I hear it's in pretty good shape generally just now. Stock maintenance is settled, trains running in consistent formations and no significant traction issues.
Obviously we're tempting fate here and tomorrow's northbound Highlander will lurch into Inverness at 2pm with square wheels.
Not true, regular MA faults,short formations and incorrectly marshalled sets are a regular occurrence just now.
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73s gone bang bang? Or just exams?
They are very unreliable locos. Regular failures. At one point there was two or three a week not so long ago.
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There are rumours that the the 87 and 86's are going to be used on the sleepers instead of the 92s until the new stock arrives due to failures and even talk of getting the class 91s that will be displaced from East Coast whether new stock arrives too, although they would need re geared I was told.
Don't even want to think about what they are going to do next year when the sleepers will move semi permanently to kings cross for the building of that daft HS2 or whatever it's going to be called. Kings cross can only take 12 plus a loco max
The lowlander will load 12 vice 16
The Inverness will run load 8 on its own
The ft william and Aberdeen will run either load 8 from edinburgh or load 10 if they decide to keep the day coaches on the train
Debatable - only this week southbound service had 2 coaches locked oou due to MA fault.
