East Midlands Railway loco-hauled trains

[Merle Haggard]

I don't suppose that this is going to turn out to be as interesting as it sounds, but the following entry appears in the latest Rail Staff Travel Ltd restrictions circular;

"On special non-timetabled loco-hauled services that E.M.R. may operate from time to time, rail staff travel facilities will not be valid."

The reference to 'non-timetabled' presumably rules out next Summer's Skegness trains, or even Plan B (?Z) when the 180s fall by the wayside.

I wonder what they have in mind.

 

[JonathanH]

I don't suppose that this is going to turn out to be as interesting as it sounds, but the following entry appears in the latest Rail Staff Travel Ltd restrictions circular;

"On special non-timetabled loco-hauled services that E.M.R. may operate from time to time, rail staff travel facilities will not be valid."

The reference to 'non-timetabled' presumably rules out next Summer's Skegness trains, or even Plan B (?Z) when the 180s fall by the wayside.

I wonder what they have in mind.

This may be related to the running of 66707 and 66763 with Mark 2 carriages to Skegness on August Bank Holiday Monday in 2017. I would imagine that it won't happen again, not least as there isn't readily available rolling stock to meet post-1 January 2020 accessibility requirements.

Staff Travel Restrictions - EMT

I understand that on Saturday there were a number of issues for holders of Staff Travel facilities on 1S03 0943 Nottingham-Skegness, which as I'm sure everyone knows was formed of LHCS with top and tail GBRf Class 66s. By all accounts a number of staff (holding valid Priv-discounted tickets)...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Merle Haggard]

Thank you, it seems plausible ("We'll make sure THAT doesn't happen again!") and possibly it has always appeared, but the train you mentioned was timetabled and had an ordinary, not special, headcode, so strictly the restriction would still not apply. It just might be that, with no HSTs next summer, the Skegness trains will be L.H. but they will presumably be timetabled. Only railway people would know if a non-timetabled service was running anyway!

And maybe, if EMR are reading this, they'll just change the wording...

 

[Hairy Bear]

And there's me looking forward to the top and tail 'Deltics' on the Matlock branch.

 

[rebmcr]

Football specials?