The Aberdeen – Penzance through service will be WITHDRAWN.
Daily Mail reporting this has run for over a Century. Well it did run in the last century but I would guess it probably first ran sometime in the 1980s, anyone got any firm info?
May 1984 for Aberdeen/Penzance (then via the WCML), but a through coach existed in the 20s and 30s.
So a gap of perhaps around fifty years between the 30s and the mid 80s.
Started 1921, ended 1939 and not reintroduced post-war though the main inter-regional working to which the through carriage was added did survive. For a spell in the early 1930s, the northbound service started from St Erth, due to lack of platforms at Penzance. The through coach also sometimes only ran to Plymouth. A sleeping car was trialled briefly.
I wonder if the full origin destination figures tell us how many fares are typically sold per annum? It’s presumably below the lowest figure displayed, that’s around 250?
Being picky in a set theory way, as 2) is a proper subset of 1), the intersection of 1), 2) and 3) is identical to the intersection of 2) and 3), so 1) is superfluous in this context.
The pre WW2 through coach was of course via Banbury and Swindon. A York to Swindon service did survive up to the closure of the GC.
Being picky in a set theory way, as 2) is a proper subset of 1), the intersection of 1), 2) and 3) is identical to the intersection of 2) and 3), so 1) is superfluous in this context.
Seems to be running non-stop from Kings Norton to New Street. May be too optimistic but I wonder if this is a pre-emptive shuttle service which can have calls added easily enough should the new stations be ready before the timetable change. Most likely too good to be true.
More a combination of longer route via the ECML than WCML, number of stops, some long station dwells.
I have heard the Aberdeen main line as having one of the highest numbers of PSR changes on a main line. Is that still the case?
Makes sense - I remember many of the station calls were dropped during covid and the timings were kept the same, IIRC.
Edinburgh to Dundee alone has over 60 speed changes...
Yes, exactly right. At one point all the Fife calls, Dunbar, Chesterfield and one or two others I think were all omitted but timings unchanged.
Conversely the S&C has some of fewest changes, with Dent to Petteril Bridge Jct. being 60 mph the entire way.
That’s a shame, there used to be a 17:04 Saxmundham to Ipswich that connected neatly with a Norwich to London service at Ipswich. Now that IC service runs earlier, ruining the connection, and the 17:04 running a few minutes earlier would be appreciated!
The Norwich can't run later as it connects at Manningtree for the Harwich branch and it seems to be a pretty reliable connection too.
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I was waiting for that.
100 miles Wigan to westhoughton and they cover it roughly 10 mins, nothing wrong with 769s fastest train on the planet, think you find it’s roughly 4 to 5 miles40 metres over 100 miles sounds pretty gentle to me!
It was a joke, take a closer look at the post I was responding to...
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