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Reservations and catering on regional services
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Crosscountries voyager services have reservations and trolley service, I wouldn't really count those as "regional" though they do avoid London. I think their turbostar services also have seat reservations and sometimes catering.
Pretty sure TPE have reservations and trolley service on most of their trains.
Northern bought trains with reservation displays for their "northern connect" services but I don't think they ever actually commisioned them. A handful of northern services have trolley services provided by the "friends of the settle and carlisle" but I'm pretty sure that is the only catering on their network.
I think TFW have seat reservations and catering on some services, but I'm not sure which.
Pretty sure TPE have reservations and trolley service on most of their trains.
Northern bought trains with reservation displays for their "northern connect" services but I don't think they ever actually commisioned them. A handful of northern services have trolley services provided by the "friends of the settle and carlisle" but I'm pretty sure that is the only catering on their network.
I think TFW have seat reservations and catering on some services, but I'm not sure which.
Andy Pacer
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There has certainly been a trolley on some of the Wick/Thurso - Inverness services in the past when I've used them, I assume this is still the case.
Similarly Scotrail do offer / have offered reservations on this route, as well as the Glasgow - Oban / Mallaig route.
Similarly Scotrail do offer / have offered reservations on this route, as well as the Glasgow - Oban / Mallaig route.
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TrainTraveler
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The Settle & Carlisle trolley is excellent.
The cambrian coast line seems to have “part time” trolley service on some trains (most needed on a decent journey on that line).
The cambrian coast line seems to have “part time” trolley service on some trains (most needed on a decent journey on that line).
gordonthemoron
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EMR Liverpool to Norwich has, or had, both. I presume Scotrail Inter7City has them
Tetchytyke
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EMR has a trolley service (I think just north of Nottingham) but it doesn't have seat reservations.
Scotrail theoretically has catering, but it's in such a state at the minute that they're still having to list the trains that do have catering. It's quite a short list.
DarloRich
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only place i have bought an on train ice cream!
Tetchytyke
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It is. And as it's a fundraiser for the Friends of the S&C I'm always happy to spend liberally when I see it.
DarloRich
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just a shame it isn't a 37/47 and a couple of miss match liveried mkii's!
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No; as above the Portsmouth services lost them as a result of Covid, and Penzance has none, even the IETs run without catering crew.
Liverpool - Norwich has a trolley Grantham - Liverpool with some shorter trolley runs at the start/end of the day. Some trollies to Norwich are being trialled.EMR has a trolley service (I think just north of Nottingham) but it doesn't have seat reservations.
Scotrail theoretically has catering, but it's in such a state at the minute that they're still having to list the trains that do have catering. It's quite a short list.
Seat reservations were dispensed with just before COVID.
InkyScrolls
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My brother has just travelled the Far North Line and confirms the trolley is alive and well.
Lewisham2221
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No reservations on TfW currently.
Catering trolleys appear quite random. I'm sure there is a proper plan, but it's affected by staffing, service disruption, busy/full trains etc.
I travelled from Nuneaton to Leicester on a Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago and was surprised that a trolley came round. We had reserved seats but there was nothing on the train to indicate that they were reserved, so as the seats were occupied we just grabbed other seats. I'm guessing that it was a Cross Country service but to be honest didn't pay much attention.
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Currently only on two of the four trains each way per day between Wick and Inverness.
Transilien
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Do any Glasgow-Edinburgh via Falkirk trains have catering? I haven’t encountered a trolley in a while on that service even though before electrification every train seemed to have a trolley
Tetchytyke
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Not any more. They did when the electric Hitachis first appeared. Disappeared at Covid and haven't come back.
Transilien
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Makes sense considering how short the journey time is.
Someone said or posted somewhere there was a trolley on the shuttle. I guess it was fake news.
Scotrail Intercity services have seat reservations and I had a trolley from Aberdeen to Inverness.
Pre covid there used to be an ice cream trolley between Soton and Weymouth on the 444s in the Summer. Does this still happen or is it long gone?
Markuk
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When did they get rid of seat reservations on the Cambrian line. Was looking at a potential journey the other day only to discover they don't offer them. But they are the same 158s that prowled the line in the 1990s when they were branded Regional Railways Alphaline, and they had reservations back then.
dk1
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I’m sure I read somewhere that catering trolleys have returned very recently to the Edinburgh-Glasgow express services. For the life of me can’t find it.
No longer catering on SWR. They ended the contract with Rail Gourmet.
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