As the title says.
Times like this, you start to reflect on what has become of things like the railway, and how it has changed over the years.
In Scotland, hinted by the threads on here over the years, many members find it astonishing how we run HSTs on routes now which, 20 years ago, were served primarily by 158s and even 156s! Fast forward 19 years when ScotRail was going through it's most turbulent period, 158s were reintroduced as the mainstay of Intercity routes until sufficient number of HSTs were able to displace them - causing full and standing and gridlock on many a service. Makes you wonder how on earth we got away with that for the past year or so, let alone in the 90s!
Any other such examples of unbelievable rolling stock allocations to diagrams that would make you think "christ almighty, how did they ever get away with that?"
321s working Euston to Manchester perhaps? Or 158s running from Manchester to Scotland?
Times like this, you start to reflect on what has become of things like the railway, and how it has changed over the years.
In Scotland, hinted by the threads on here over the years, many members find it astonishing how we run HSTs on routes now which, 20 years ago, were served primarily by 158s and even 156s! Fast forward 19 years when ScotRail was going through it's most turbulent period, 158s were reintroduced as the mainstay of Intercity routes until sufficient number of HSTs were able to displace them - causing full and standing and gridlock on many a service. Makes you wonder how on earth we got away with that for the past year or so, let alone in the 90s!
Any other such examples of unbelievable rolling stock allocations to diagrams that would make you think "christ almighty, how did they ever get away with that?"
321s working Euston to Manchester perhaps? Or 158s running from Manchester to Scotland?
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