Liverpool to Euston Non-Stop

[Shimbleshanks]

Extra VT service today departed Lime Street 15.20 & arrived Euston 17.14. Non-Stop in 1 hour 54mins.

Is this a record?

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U63502/2018/11/11/advanced

I took a heavily delayed train, nominally non-stop from Liverpool Lime Street to Euston, one Saturday in about April/May 2010 following a lineside fire. I think the journey time was just a small fraction under two hours - 1hr 56min with one signal stop in the Widnes area - and the driver came on the tannoy at the end to say we'd broken the record. So your 1hr 54min may well be the new record!

 

[The Planner]

I'm not sure how it can have broken a record, it was 15 minutes early with 16 minutes of allowances in the schedule, therefore it met its normal running times as all trains should be!

 

[Shimbleshanks]

I'm not sure how it can have broken a record, it was 15 minutes early with 16 minutes of allowances in the schedule, therefore it met its normal running times as all trains should be!

A record in the sense of how quickly a train has been got between those stations. I shouldn't think recovery time, pathing allowances etc mean much to the average punter.

 

[TrainTube]

It can generally, but I've seen it verifiably be wrong on lots of occasions.

True, sometimes the information is incorrect, it still thinks 313's operate on the London Overground!

 

[DarloRich]

True, sometimes the information is incorrect, it still thinks 313's operate on the London Overground!

RTT doesn't think anything! The train type is merely the timing structure used to build the timetable.

 

[Bald Rick]

Presumably it was so quick because even if every Fulham fan at the match took the train, it would only have been about 10% full.