Recent content by Auximines

Not any more - they've taken one of the FO's out of the rake.

Went to that London yesterday. Odd formations on both diagrams. Up 06:41 had an FO in place of the usual 3rd SO. 16:50 back had no buffet car, instead was formed 3x FO 2x SO. So, free first class upgrades in both directions! A pity about the usual late running. Southbound blamed on signal theft...

Or people like me who live close by that used to use Northern/TPE/NatEx from Thornaby or Darlington. What I have noticed is that quite a lot of GC pax get lifts to and from Eaglescliffe - the car park is small and is never full no matter how many passengers there are (somewhere around a dozen...

Where does that set go in the few hours between runs at Sunderland?

I'm not surprised. They have no capacity, no cash and no new trains before the summer ends. What else can they do? They inherited a dog's dinner of a franchise.

Yeah, the benefit was that it was £24 cheaper than the any operator ticket....!

Looking at fares options for my trip to the smoke tomorrow it appears as if the NXEC-only ticket has been withdrawn.

The unrefurbed sets are a disgrace - lumpy torn dirty seats.

I remember a sick 220 with crush loading being caped at Donny one evening. We all got thrown out and Virgin told us to wait for the next one an hour later. Control didn't put a stop order on anything banging through northbound so we all waited. Now, there's something about trying to put the...

Only if the long version is spelled "sarkastic"

An interesting thread. A few comments: 1. NX staff aren't all little Hitlers as has been implied. I have seen some shockingly bad behaviour from a few of their grippers yes, but have seen excellent customer service too - you have to remember that they are people who have different...

Are GC actually charging the £15 supplement though? I've made a few trips since it was introduced and have never been charged it - isn't it now train manager's discretion? I can see it quietly dropped now.....