Ghost Train on new Northern Barrow Timetable

[Mordac]

The new Northern timetable for Barrow and the Cumbrian coast (found here) seems to list a train that doesn't run. On page 19 of the pdf, rightmost column, there is listed a working departing Preston at 18:47 and arriving to Barrow at 20:06, but this train appears neither in RTT nor National Rail enquiries. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I did check and everything else in the timetable is in RTT.

 

[pemma]

Looks like the service got changed to 19:08 and out-of-date information has been included in the printed timetable. The same is true of the 17:23 Piccadilly-Hazel Grove service which wrongly has been shown as still being a 17:23 Piccadilly-Chinley service in the Hope Valley timetable.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

The new Northern timetable for Barrow and the Cumbrian coast (found here) seems to list a train that doesn't run. On page 19 of the pdf, rightmost column, there is listed a working departing Preston at 18:47 and arriving to Barrow at 20:06, but this train appears neither in RTT nor National Rail enquiries. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I did check and everything else in the timetable is in RTT.

Tweeted Northern about it and they've admitted its a mistake at their end and they will update timetables and their booking engine accordingly

 

[Loop & Link]

It ran tonight VSTP'd

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

It ran tonight VSTP'd

Sure did... But as an STP not an VSTP

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O93952/2016/05/16/advanced

 

[Loop & Link]

The service did actually exist anyway there's a unit (Class 185) and traincrew down to work it.

 

[Greybeard33]

The service did actually exist anyway there's a unit (Class 185) and traincrew down to work it.

RTT shows 1C56, 1847 Preston - Barrow 2006, in the Working Timetable for tomorrow and subsequent days. It was there two months ago when I worked out the diagrams for this post (see Diagram 4), so there must have been a temporary glitch since.

It is in fact a portion working from Manchester Airport (1729), the front portion being 1N63 to Blackpool North (dep Preston 1841).

 

[Crossover]

Sure did... But as an STP not an VSTP

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O93952/2016/05/16/advanced

'Schedule from VSTP'

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

'Schedule from VSTP'

That is Operational

I was noting Schedule

Schedule Information
STP schedule UID O93952,
Identity 1C56
Runs on 16/05/2016 only
Service code 22974000
Express Passenger


Operational Information
Schedule from VSTP
Pathed as Diesel Multiple Unit

 

[Freightmaster]

That is Operational

I was noting Schedule

Schedule Information
STP schedule UID O93952,
Identity 1C56

The clue is in the UID code - anything starting with
an 'O' (freight or passenger) is a vSTP working.

STP workings use other prefixes, such as R/U for freight
and S/Q/X (and others) for passenger workings.


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