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Not entirely correct - all Welwyn drivers will occasionally work Thameslink 9Sxx services for some of their journey (Finsbury Park to Cambridge, for example), plus drivers in Link 2 will drive through the core to Sevenoaks.

Just a quick tidy up for GA Cambridge, in relation to the impending loss of King's Lynn work... Traction: 720, 745/755 Routes: Ely-Liverpool Street via Clapton, Southbury and Stratford Broxbourne Junction-Hertford East Stansted North/South Junctions-Stansted Airport Also diversions via...

Stansted Mountfitchet!

Apologies for going slightly OT, but does anyone know what the reason is for the Brandon shunt move going via Ely?

501 out with 512 this morning on 0847 Cambridge - Liverpool Street.

Platform extensions are indeed required at Hertford, Stratford and Broxbourne before they operate on services which start/terminate at those stations. However, thanks to the ASDO (Automatic Selective Door Operation) system, 10 cars could appear on the Cambridges in the near future. Posters...

The units today were 550+552 (the latter only arrived at Ilford on Monday I think). As far as I know, the 720s are off to Stansted tomorrow at 1107 as 5Q24, but usual test train conditions apply! The 720 West runs this week are ASDO validation-related, and were due to run before the...

There's no main transformer as such, each power car has its own transformer mounted on the underframe.

I think that an Intercity 745 has the following formation: DMS-PTS-TS-TS-TS-MS(A)-MS(B)-TS-TS-TSWB-PTF-DMF The Airport version is the same, albeit without the first class and the buffet sections.

That's probably for the best ;). Did it have to be dumped stabled there because of technical issues?

Not what you see every day in the (unelectrified!) Broxbourne tamper siding... 710269.

Genuine question here, but given that this arrangement appears to be fairly common on the continent, do European operators have ridiculous dwell times? Or is it more of a passenger behaviour thing here? (@Set_DRA, as an aside I'm sure you've seen how you can stop at PON with 16 doors at the...

Not sure when it was reinstated, but the crossover definitely has been put back in - whilst working 1744 Cambridge North - Liv St, I was routed that way this evening. Was quite taken aback to not get the feather at L112 for the Up Sub!

True, but they serve a purpose. Apparently there is some historical commitment to running those services, but that is probably apocryphal! As an aside, take it from a Cambridge driver that it's disheartening when, even though you're just a smidge late, the Norwich is let out in front of you and...

They do a reasonable trade though and nicely plug the gaps of the GTR Lynn services. When/if GTR run half hourly into the evening, then perhaps GA will only go as far as Ely... Incidentally, a single 720/5 would probably result in an altered stopping pattern, courtesy of the short platforms at...