Looking at doing a trip on the line and hope to do it on HST, thanks.
It is still variable, but I do feel it has improved in the last two months.
Many thanks for the detailed response, which route is the most common for them?
Booked or actual?
Booked please
Glasgow to Aberdeen and Edinburgh to Aberdeen.
You don’t think that Laira, SPM, Neville Hill and Craigentinny having maintained HSTs for 40 years or more compared with Haymarket having never seen them before (and not seeing diesel-electrics for 30 years) might have something to do with it?
Always a possibility that they don't know? Alternatively too much interference from Transport Scotland...
From what I've been told previously, a lot of the time it's niggly little things...
The kind of things that might show up after years of steady use followed by a period being parked up before being reused?
Well I do now, thanks. That said, I'm sure you could have told me rather than wording it sarcastically.
Partly, but not entirely.
I think this is fair. There are more sets around and if your train is diagrammed for a HST then it's much more likely that is what will turn up.
It's not really that decent considering we were set for 27 sets! (26 now due to the Stonehaven tragedy).
If a set has failed/been subbed, I've put that in brackets. The figure is the number of sets out and which have worked at least part of a diagram.
Thanks. So the "spares" are actually being used when possible. If there are six of them I'm guessing it's something roughly like a couple of them on hand at Glasgow and Edinburgh and one at Aberdeen & Inverness.
I don't know about 'spares' per se, what there is are six sets more than there are diagrams.
Sod the poor passenger cramped on a commuter train instead of an Inter7City, eh?
6 out of 21 is 2/7 (28.5%) rather than a third.
