A few things from scanning through the various pdfs...
* - The evening Chathill service won't stop at Cramlington, meaning quite a bit gap in the peaks for Newcastle - Cramington passengers (who will significantly outnumber the Chathill man and his dog!) - will the expectation be that the Ashington service covers this instead?
* -Still two short DMUs into Leeds in the morning peak from Skipton (rather than combining the Lancaster and Carlisle services to allow a path to be used by a four coach EMU) - I wasn't expecting anything to change, but it's still annoying
* -Seems a bit odd to be removing the token "put the place on the map" LNER service that Sunderland has to London at the same time as giving Middlesbrough/ Cleethorpes a token "put the place on the map" LNER service to London (I appreciate the reasons for both changes, but the timing of doing one at the same time as the other seems worth pointing out)
* -I thought Reston was a daft idea for a station when it was proposed, I thought it was a daft idea when they started building it, I think it's a daft idea now that we see just how poor the service is going to be / how we'll have to allocate stock to a stand alone service just to provide enough services to justify opening it - it's going to be a white elephant
* -Saltburn gets an hourly Manchester service - great - more people should visit Saltburn - the other east coast seaside towns are over-rated!
* - In all of the rationalisations (and complaints about insufficient paths through Garforth for the current XC service at tea time!), I'm surprised that the Blackpool North service still runs fairly fast to York (okay, it picks up Garforth in lieu of TPE, but there's still the stand along Leeds - York stopper - given all of the other reductions/ simplifications, I half expected the stops to be giving back to the Blackpool service, as used to be the case)
I still like the overall changes, don't get me wrong - there's a lot of good in there - obviously there'll be something in there that everyone dislikes
I don't think there's talk of scrapping them, but if TPE can manage the vast majority of their current services without them then they can become someone else's problem (which may allow us to take these modern coaches out of service for a few months so that money can be spent on reconfiguring them)
Sure, I was just trying to see if there was any quantifiable benefit of it, that's all - going via Leeds is enough of a delay on Sheffield - York journeys but even more so with (London) Doncaster - York (Newcastle) journeys
Fair call - I'm more biased in favour of Donny for obvious reasons, but there's obviously a lot of connections at Peterborough too