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It There are probably enough units at tyseley but all the traincrew are messed up. So you have to peace together all of the diagrams because your Worcester crew won't be in place at Snow hill to work south. Plus you have a Worcester to Kidderminster service to crew with Worcester crew. WMT are...

The camp hill services are covered by mostly New St crew with a little bit of Worcester thrown into the mix. New St crew don't sign 172s (I almost certain they have never signed them ) and I guess the route will be passed for 172s but nothing has been done for stopping at the stations as due...

Also SC only depots Stourbridge-SJ Northampton-NN (Dvr depot is a satellite of Bletchley with BY4xx diagrams I think) Watford-WF

Close but not quite right. Virgin WC were in the Mailbox before 2007 alongside Central Trains (I'm going to guess I visited them in there in 2004 or 5) As you say Cross Country didn't come in until after Arriva took them over and then left. It ended because NR decided to split their Control...

So on a Sunday WMT only run 1 train an hour instead of 2. The rest of the week 1 goes via Willenhall/Darlaston and stops. The other via Smethwick. On a Sunday only the via Smethwick one runs. However recently the line via Smethwick has been blocked on a Sunday so they have been diverted via...

Smethwick Rolfe St and Langley Green

Not checked the whole thread but Duddeston is moving off the Four Oaks and onto the Lichfield services (although I guess start and end of service might be different)

Morning, I saw Chiltern were only running Warwick Parkway to London this Sunday and thought it was due to engineering work. However closer inspection shows the line is open and this is an operational decision by Chiltern due to Birmingham City playing at Wembley. They state that this allows...

They got the assurances on the pension that they were looking for in terms of active staff. Not so for staff that have retired already but as they won't get a vote in the pay rise they say it can go forward to the membership. Therefore ballot opened today. Closes next Friday. I don't think...

TSSA have asked questions about whether any payment of arrears of contributions will take place when the pensions rates are reassessed in July 2025 as well as issues with people that have retired. Dft haven't answered those questions. I think it is pretty sensible to ask whether their members...

Years ago (thinking end of Central beginning of LM) this led to trains being cancelled at Worcester rather than Ledbury and passengers for the stations towards Hereford having a longer wait due to the risk of the job stopping at Ledbury. Not sure what happens now to be honest.

I believe it was introduced as a safety thing and I guess if Virgin didn't change it then Avanti have got no chance. Maybe I was misinformed but that's what I've always been told. We had big disruption at International once with a big event on. Virgin had a set and a crew at New St going...

In the past with Virgin, drivers had an agreement where they don't go over the same route twice. So your Glasgow drivers who are stuck at Preston wouldn't do a shuttle to Carlisle as they would break this agreement coming back to Preston. Any Preston drivers who would be going to Euston which...

All training is pulled during the action short of a strike. Although I guess you need the engineering side trained up before you start training runs.

Looking at the departures from Euston between 2000-2359 there are 12 departures which are all 8 cars meaning 24 units. Between 2200-2359 is it 5 departures with 10 units. Going back over timetable periods to the number of units used between 2000-2359 and then between 2200-2359 Nov 22 22...