Except presumably GWR-only tickets are valid?
I'm guessing this is the 5 HST Trailers that ran to Laira yesterday?
I wouldn't put anything past anyone nowadays. Anyone for a Penalty fare for using a Northern ticket on a northern train with a northern guard and driver and no PIS to say it is actually a TPE service?
The problem is you are effectively asking them to give them all up before too long. There is a active line of thought that whilst the issue would have eventually occurred on whichever line the units were working on there is a particular issue with the infrastructure on the GWML that has speeded up the process which is the reason for the proportion of units available being so much lower at GWR than any other operator.
Will XC staff even be bothering to check tickets on these services? it always seems to me that in times of major disruption guards/revenue staff on trains seem to go into hiding.
XC has confirmed that Group Save tickets are valid, so I think we can conclude that the sensible approach is being taken.
No, the cabs in the class 22/23/25 built in the 1950s/1960s are similar but nothing like the Alstom class 13s built in 1997. As to why it's allowed, they are rather more relaxed about Health and Safety over there. It's only recently that they've started putting up fences along railway lines.
Would many Paddington or Reading(?) drivers still have competency on HSTs?
Who is this "Rail North" of which you speak? Rail North Ltd. was wound up when TfN took over co-management of the Northern & TPE franchises through the Rail North Partnership. It doesn't own, finance or lease stock and shortly won't have any franchises to co-manage either.
Yes, successfully appealed (3rd stage naturally as the other 2 are a con). Though, off topic for here.
There is a connection for Sarn (Bridgend)
signalling problem (says RTT) stopped everyhting for for about an hour..
Thanks for a very good analysis. This makes things even poorer from the procurement point of view.
Are the C2C 387 cabs different? If so it would make sense to have GWR cabs on the outer ends.
No, apparently they are the same set up.
They were built to (almost) the same spec as GWR’s as they were part of Porterbrook’s speculative build order (some of GWR’s were as well I believe but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) - the main difference is the pantograph.
I don't think Grand Central would be much busier, they are running a reduced service and a lot of seats are out of use.
People book journeys in advance. If I was looking to book a journey to or from London or the North East last week, I would have booked it with Grand Central. Even now, LNER will be operating under a cloud. Why risk a cancellation on LNER? People on this forum with knowledge of the railways may know what's going on, but the general public will only have heard horror stories on the news of safety issues, broken trains and entire fleets withdrawn from service. This has been a public relations catastrophe for LNER and it's something they won't recover from quickly
