Recent content by James90012

Does the 175 introduction have any bearing on releasing 80X for Sunday services? Seriously overcrowded services from Exeter this afternoon, could have sworn there were more afternoon services to London a few years ago but could be wrong.

Northbound was a bit of an extended mess for a while after the event for GTR, mainly for what I could see due to cancelling trains at Letchworth which meant trains - including Peterborough services - were held back in each signal section through to Stevenage.

Interesting spot. Surely there would be a more stylish way to apply that stripe which works better with the livery? Looks so out of place.

The 1Ps Peterborough-King's Cross are nowhere near as busy as the 9J Peterborough-Horsham. Southbound peak 1P's have seats available weekday from Stevenage even, and on departure from King's Cross northbound. I know as I regularly take them and change at Stevenage so I can get a seat. They are...

My speculative two pennies. A fair few of the services have quite lengthy dwells at Preston. I suspect Plan A would be to reduce these in future timetables, but I wondered if Blackpool is a strong Plan B - I.e. splitting a Blackpool set off a Stirling train once the new trains arrive.

Looks like the sensible has prevailed, National Rail advising GTR tickets are valid on LNER this evening to Stevenage and Peterborough due to disruption.

The Moorgate line is not looking good either, very few stopping trains have ran recently and few look set to start up again.

The next hour looks particularly bad with nothing inbound into Kings Cross to form any GN services...

I happen to be booked on 1N07 on Christmas Eve and that was showing a 10-car on the seat selector.

I don't think the GTR/LNER issue should happen regularly, at least in the working timetable, but of course things are re-platformed everyday. The 17:18/17:24 issue is perhaps a specific one as that is how they are timetabled at King's Cross.

Interesting. I was going to ask about this when I was blocked from joining a GN train as LNER had closed off the platform. I hadn't noticed this before but I assumed it was a one off... perhaps not. Fair enough to block platforms for their own services but it was totally unacceptable in my view...

The PU/SD restrictions will be quite a big change, LNER services are very well used at Stevenage and often I see people wait on the platform after a Thameslink has left for the LNER for whatever reason.

There must be a GN train missing in the morning, there's currently over an hour gap in the morning service between Letchworth / Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:W58709/2025-12-16/detailed...

Well this is much improved compared to the original consultation for Darlington and Northallerton. Though slower than today for Darlo at least, the original plan to push the ECML calls at Northallerton into Cross Country and dramatically reducing Darlington's LNER connectivity with Edinburgh has...

Not sure if this is well documented already, but noticed this sign this morning at Hitchin. There has been zero warning about this but I can't check what the 'small difference' is as the super off peaks are not available. I presume this is related to the extension of Contactless and needing the...