Recent content by Alasdair Clift

Just walked past Town Hall tram stop which seems to have had its map over the ticket machine updated to match

This is correct. Chester depot transferred from Alstom to CAF in June 2022, a few months prior to the 197s entering service. From what I've heard, the 175s have a tendency to accumulate leaf litter and other debris in their undercarriage. Naturally, with the engines and other hot components...

TrainPal advised them to return all tickets and rebook all three, mainly because they advised them that it would be cheaper to rebook on LNR services instead of their original Avanti service. Not sure what you mean by “London International” tickets - if you mean St Pancras that’s the exact issue...

Hi all, Recently, my parents and my brother travelled to London and back from Liverpool to catch the Eurostar. My Dad (against my advice) booked return advance tickets with TrainPal and, upon collecting the tickets a week before travel, realised he’d accidentally booked two tickets with a...

It’s been like that the last few weeks from what I’ve observed. It’s not unheard of for them to use battery though even where wires are present. At various points I’ve seen them use battery between Brindleyplace and Five Ways and while sat at Edgbaston Village despite all those spots having...

I unfortunately ended up on 350256 a few weeks ago on a Birmingham to Liverpool service running solo. Dirty, stained interior with rubbish everywhere and both toilets out of order. So yes, they are battered!

Is the branding not remaining the same, just the “by Arriva” lettering being removed?

The main reason for length is because Mk1s were generally a lot shorter, being between 17m and 19m long. Compare that to a modern intercity train which is usually between 23m and 26m. For example, an 11 coach 390 is 26m longer than a 14 coach set of Mk1s, and a 9 coach 80x is only 4m shorter.

According to TPE on Twitter: 397003 1M99 0628 LAN-MIA 1S38 0807 MIA-CAR 1M97 1333 CAR-MIA 1S75 1607 MIA-EDB 1M95 2011 EDB-MIA 397006 1S35 0726 MAN-CAR 1M96 1233 CAR-MIA 1S71 1510 MIA-GLC 1M94 1908 GLC-MIA 1S98 2310 MIA-PRE

The Flowing Silk livery was temporary, the trains needed repainting as part of maintenance and since the franchise was up for renewal a base white scheme was chosen. Virgin then added the red flowing silk at the ends so their identity remains but could be easily removed should they lose the...

Any news on what diagrams they’ll be running today?

TPE’s units only entered service at the end of 2013. Prior to that the Scottish services were 185 operated.

I don’t think they ever did, they simply remained in Connex livery. From pictures it seems they transferred still in Connex livery before being reverted to NSE livery by WAGN

Any chance of them running next week? Hoping to catch one on Monday on 9E09

Yes, I see that now.