That will be the new platform numbering when the work at Huddersfield is finished. P8 will become P4, the new bay and through platform will be 6 & 5 respectively and the current 5 & 6 filled in. I wonder if this is RTT jumping the gun though? I wouldn't have thought platform (and signalling) renumbering would happen until at least P8/newP4 is ready.
For a precedent, the Reading remodelling included a very early complete renumbering, in a sort of ‘big bang’ style, well before most of the physical work started. In that case they even came up with a P16, which was a temporary number for a bay that would eventually be filled in, leaving P15 as the highest number used.
Yes, that's exactly what's happening in September - there is a 30-day blockade of Huddersfield from Saturday 30th August to Sunday 28th September (i.e., reopening Monday 29th September), which moves Huddersfield to a temporary layout with just the three platforms on the new signalling. Therefore the new platform numbers are in the LTP timetable from then onwards, and RTT is not jumping the gun.
Allows the Norwich-Liverpool service to run into platform 3 at 09:49.
But the 0947 is on platform 2
Apologies so it is. Not that then.
Basically this is part of restoring the XC Birmingham-Stansted service to hourly (instead of terminating at Cambridge every two hours). 1T19 departing Ely at 09:47 permits it to arrive into Cambridge at 10:06 instead of 10:07. This allows 1L30, the 07:22 XC service from Birmingham New Street, to arrive at 10:09 instead of 10:11, which allows it to extend forward to Stansted departing at 10:11, before 1T19 departs at 10:14.
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
1L32 has extra stops between New Street and Leicester so is off pattern leaving Leicester heading east, also calls at Manea
Realtime Trains | 1L32 0752 Birmingham New Street to Stansted Airport | 11/06/2025
Real-time train running information for 1L32 0752 departure from Birmingham New Street to Stansted Airport on 11/06/2025. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
Works pretty well for connections both to or from London or Sheffield.
For some (no doubt good) reason there is no 0822 off New Street
Thanks for this. Something else really helpful would be Liverpools, so I can avoid Everos as much as possible!
Just a friendly heads up I think the captions on Saturdays are a bit jumbled 
Oh dear, are they that bad? I haven’t had one yet.Thanks for this. Something else really helpful would be Liverpools, so I can avoid Everos as much as possible!
Objectively no, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with them. I think they’re bland inside but they’re perfectly adequate, and they offer armrests by the window in standard which is a plus.
So they are... Fixed.
I think this is because the xx52 Is normally the Leicester terminator with the Stansted/Cambridge at xx22. The lack of 0822 out of New St is potentially (I’ve not checked) a knock on effect from the 0637 Nottingham running to Bournemouth as in a normal hour this arrival forms the next Birmingham - Nottingham service. So I think a 170 comes in from Cambridge and goes back out to Nottingham
These turn out to be one and the same issue - the current 0821 departure from Birmingham (headcode 1L98) starts back from Bristol at 06:25 (and runs via Gloucester), but there is no such train in the new timetable. Hence why the 0752 will extend beyond Leicester in the path previously used by 1L98.
Removing 1L98 from the timetable also removes a (unique?) oddity which is that at Gloucester it currently passes 2E48 (the 0608 BRI-WOS) while it is itself passed by 1S35.
Sounds complicated... What could possibly go wrong?!
Isn't that just "London and 3 destinations served from London - 1) Liverpool, 2) Birmingham and 3) North Wales"?Does anyone know what the national rail website could be referring to here:
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From Sunday 18 May 2025, Avanti West Coast have got more new trains and more frequent services running on several of their routes.
More services have been added on the routes between London and Liverpool, Birmingham and North Wales, as well as between Birmingham and Glasgow. These additional services are coming in thanks to the continued rollout of the new Evero trains and the progression of their driver training programme.
A few small changes will be made to some departure times and calling patterns, but there are no other major changes to the timetable.”
I didn’t think avanti ran services between Birmingham and North Wales, unless it’s a typo and it’s referring to the ones from London.
Timetable Changes | National Rail
Find out about any changes to the published National Rail timetable herewww.nationalrail.co.uk
There's an error here, the 10:16 ex EUS forms the 12:47 ex New St, so they should be the same power.
There is an early morning Birmingham - Holyhead service and a late night Holyhead - Birmingham service linking Holyhead & Birmingham (via Stafford)
Oops. fixed!
