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The 09:15 Reading to Manchester service on a Sunday morning is a booked 10 coach set, although the last couple of times I've used it, it's split at Birmingham. Last time was a few weeks ago when the WCML was closed in the Watford area for the short notice works and the 5 coaches for Manchester...

I wonder how long it will be until Travelodge hike the premium between their "Fixed" and "Flexible" rates to make more people book the "Semi-Flex" rate (no cancellation and a £12(?) fee to change the date). Although it will be a sad day for me personally considering a good selling point is the...

@gazr Woodford P1 sees a single arrival late on a Sunday evening (22:37). Screenshot of the working timetable with the P1 terminator within the box. No clue how successful it will be mind

There is a slight gap in the overhead wiring between the Liverpool South Parkway area & the Old Trafford area. Unless you are proposing routing the services via Chat Moss

And having a 701 on those peak time services towards Bagshot where 3 stations (out of how many?) require SDO. Similar to other services which might have some stations with short platforms at the start/end but require the full length at the other end

Was it dreamt up by someone high up who lives in Barnsley who is unhappy about having to stand whenever they travel to Sheffield or Leeds?

I wonder if Mr All Platforms will be in the West Midlands on either Christmas Eve or the 27th December to do a service from Walsall direct towards Wolverhampton via Willenhall as part of the Birmingham New Street closures (also for the XC between St Andrews Jn & Landor Street Jn)

12/10: 68021 (Birmingham Moor Street → Warwick Parkway) Also cleared 68024 for 10 miles from Warwick to Leamington Spa.

Greater Anglia 755s replacing the 153/156/170s on the rural routes

The Greenford shuttle got cut back to West Ealing when the first of the GWR 387s arrived, with the path into Paddington being used by a half hourly Hayes & Harlington stopper*. When the wires extended to Maidenhead/Reading/Didcot the 387s took over from the Turbos on the stoppers before TfL...

It will certainly be an easy line to reopen as it already exists, just used by the occasional freight. The hardest section will probably be at Alloa itself due to the layout. The large elephant will be what stock they will use on a reopened line, even if just an hourly Glasgow - Dunfermline...

Especially when some of them will get paid a "Finders Fee" by the charity when they get someone signing up, in some cases taking a couple of years before the charity will see a return on the investment (assuming the donation is £5 a month).

And the cuts at Durham station continues

Isn't there also a limitation with the Newcastle - Reading services having to be a 4 coach voyager due to the bay platform it uses at Newcastle only being long enough for 4 coaches?

12/10: Millennium Point on the West Midland Metro.