Recent content by Keithheller

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The station is literally falling apart!!! And leaks when it rains!

Train crew issues and the state of the fleets forcing GWR’s hand!!!

So we got a transport minister whos dad worked on the railway and a London Mayor whos dad was a bus driver. Must have the same spin doctor and or script writers!

Been best part of 20 years since Virgin/ Avanti stopped at Hartford. The 1925 Euston- Carlisle used to call there back in’t day!

Booked via Heathtown to keep up train crew route competency.

Crewe can be just as bad with the Avanti dispatchers. Had to laugh last Saturday. Punters mistook the newbie dispatcher for his arm waving to get behind the yellow line to be waving. So they waved back. Even some train crew flap at yellow line crossers! Unfortunately PTI is a big thing. Remember...

Anything to do with some warm weather, the euro’s starting and Fathers Day on Sunday

90001 can normally be found residing at the LSL yard at Crewe

Evening all It would appear that the 45 minute travel time that TOC’s place on vacancies for trainee train drivers is a farce. Someone I know commutes Milton Keynes to Woking via London. A 90 minute journey on a good day. And how many of them occur. Surely must be pushing it for fatigue levels?!?

LNWR Class 319 diagrams until December… SX 0650 NMP- EUS 0831 EUS- TRI 0925 TRI- EUS 0753 BLY- EUS 0634 BLY - EUS 0811 EUS- WFJ 0856 WFJ- EUS 1630 EUS- NMP 1709 EUS- WFJ 1743 WFJ- EUS 1824 EUS- NMP Has reverted to 350 work recently! 1723 EUS- NMP 1738 EUS- WFJ 1811 WFJ- EUS SO 0640...

Three that spring to mind... Early 2000’s the high Summer Saturday Cornish Riviera service was RA Reading - Plymouth. The last couple of years of Virgin CrossCountry saw a hired HST run non stop Bristol Temple Meads - Plymouth on a Newquay bound service. And until a few years ago you could run...

Non stop and jam packed.

Far too much plastic involved!

Having holidayed in Tenby & travelled on The Pembroke Coast Express from Paddington. The HST was booked to wait at Tenby & wait the unit to come up from Pembroke to clear the section. Also giving time for the driver of the HST to get the token sorted & the masses to get off. Now. It was either...