Northampton?
Northampton "gained" a load of VT services in 2004 both north and south, but since the new timetables it's back down to one in the early morning and one very late at night.
Northampton?
Northampton "gained" a load of VT services in 2004 both north and south, but since the new timetables it's back down to one in the early morning and one very late at night.
It only had 1tpd to / from Manchester and 2/3tpd (in the early morning / late evening) to / from Birmingham.
That's a gain from not having any at all.
A common misconception. There are towns with Anglican Cathedrals (Blackburn, Guildford, Chelmsford, Bury St Edmunds, Rochester) just as there are cities without Anglican Cathedrals (Bath, Nottingham, Cambridge, Leeds, Southampton)
City status is no longer linked to having a Cathedral, and hasn't been for over 120 years.
Hmmm... what's this then?
Stranraer, Ayr
Mid 80's the up Royal Scot used to start from Ayr so to add to the list I will suggest, Ayr (as noted by Driver 9000 in post #3), Prestwick, Troon, Irvine, Kilwinning, Johnstone and Paisley Gilmour Street.
Coatbridge Central, Cumbernauld,
I think the 'Clansman' (Inverness - Euston daytime service under B R) called at Springburn in the mid-1980s
The Highland Chieftain used to stop at Larbet back in the day, and Dunblane too (though I can't remember for certain on this one)
Queen Street- unless you count the Inverness and Aberdeen services? They were never "InterCity" brand though. It had a brief period of being served by HSTs that caused joyous operational problems by overhanging into the tunnel
First to go were the local stops on the Inverness - Kings Cross HST and the Inverness - Euston were matched with the same stopping pattern, the following year the Glasgow / Edinburgh - Inverness were also matchedTroon. Didn't the southbound Royal Scot stop there in the 80's that started at Ayr?
Also I remember Carstairs was a hive of activity before they electrified into Edinburgh. Trains would divide into portions coming from the south, and combine from Glasgow and Edinburgh
Because I feel like being a pedant, Newquay. The summer service stopped 15 days ago, thus it no longer has intercity services.
Has Blackburn ever been served by InterCity services other than diversions over the S&C?
But it was the expense of being able to get anywhere north without going via Birmingham as all the Rugby stops were removed from anything going down the Trent, so it really wasn't an improvement at all.
Newquay still gets summer trains to Manchester and the North East, as well as a few Paddington HSTs IIRC.
And then do we consider they resume their Intercity status when Central Trains was broken up?
I think as a rule of thumb, if it's run by CrossCountry, then it's intercity. Turbostars do qualify as intercity, if they run inter-city services; they were and I think still are used on Liv St-Gt Yarmouth, aren't they, and as mentioned, were originally used on kX-Hull and St P-Nottingham/Derby, which is surely intercity, even if they were semifasts.
I was just pointing out the odd situation of Birmingham-Cardiff changing by some peoples description purely as the operator went fron XC to CT and back to XC!
That's not quite what happened. BirminghamCardiff via Chepstow was Regional Railways, later shared between Central and Wales & West (and latterly Central only), and BirminghamCardiff via Bristol was InterCity run by Virgin XC (originally BirminghamSwansea but got cut back to one return trip to Cardiff around 2003). Now both routes have coincidentally come under the auspices of Arriva XC.
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For reference, this is the InterCity network right before privatization.
Would you say that, when Central Trains took over the Birmingham-Cardiff services from VXC, they remained Intercity services? even when a 150 was running them?
I agree to an extent that it depends on your definition of intercity services, but to my mind, if it is run by a company that was part of Regional Railways, it's not an intercity service.
Has Blackburn ever been served by InterCity services other than diversions over the S&C?
I understand that this was a Diversion, but Winter of around 2003-2004, the VT Timetable showed an extra stop at Blackburn on a Saturday heading south. Wondering if anyone knows anything about this..?
AFAIK those trains routed via Manchester Piccadilly & Bolton would have stopped @ Darwen, but would have done so to eliminate a run round @ Preston.
If you're counting single oddities like summer Saturday-only loco-hauled trains, then didn't Walsall, until the mid-1980s, have such a service to/from Great Yarmouth?