Daily Cardiff Voyager

[ValleyLines142]

Hi guys,

Does everybody remember the days when the current daily Voyager from Cardiff (now 1M25, the 0700 to Manchester) used to go to Newcastle and Edinburgh? Why was this changed following the timetable change a few years back? When it ran to Edinburgh it had a direct link to stations such as Sheffield, Leeds, York and Newcastle. Shame it was taken off!

 

[JamieFCC]

Passenger Numbers were low between chesterfield and Edinburgh

 

[TEW]

It was switched because all Bristol-Newcastle trains were switched to Bristol-Manchester trains. As part of the December 2008 timetable XC services were standardised, and Bristol and Reading services switched destinations as a part of that. The Cardiff service simply being an extension of a Bristol-Manchester service. There will still be a service from Birmingham-Newcastle as well, it will now run from Reading instead though.

 

[anthony263]

Hi guys,

Does everybody remember the days when the current daily Voyager from Cardiff (now 1M25, the 0700 to Manchester) used to go to Newcastle and Edinburgh? Why was this changed following the timetable change a few years back? When it ran to Edinburgh it had a direct link to stations such as Sheffield, Leeds, York and Newcastle. Shame it was taken off!

I much prefered it when it was a hst and worked to Swansea, of course the afternoon service used to run from Cardiff following about 10 minutes after a fgw hst so was always quiet.

 

[JamieFCC]

It used to go on to swansea with extra stops at bridgend and neath

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Passenger Numbers were low between chesterfield and Edinburgh

I highly doubt that, few trains are quiet anywhere south of Newcastle.

It used to go on to swansea with extra stops at bridgend and neath

... And Port Talbot. They were dropped when Operation Princess failed.

 

[MCR247]

Passenger Numbers were low between chesterfield and Edinburgh

LOL

^This post has actually just made my day

 

[Nym]

They where only low because they where using a double headed 47 pulling 12 Mk2s...

 

[ValleyLines142]

They where only low because they where using a double headed 47 pulling 12 Mk2s...

It was a 220!
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Passenger Numbers were low between chesterfield and Edinburgh

That wouldn't have anything to do with Cardiff, and there's still an hourly service now.