Recent content by mikestone1952

222603 showing on RTT as five cars, so I went to the trouble of watching 1S03 yesterday on railcam and it was six cars, and the discussion on there also seemed to confirm that 222601 had gone to Central Rivers.

The move from Ditton is en route 24 hours late.

Cross Country track access application has appeared recently https://sacuksprodnrdigital0001.blob.core.windows.net/sale-of-access-rights/Consultations/Current Track Access Consultations/13.03.2026 - CrossCountry Trains - Section 22 - 45th SA - Closes 13.04.2026/XC 45th Supplemental Form P -...

The trains aren't showing in RTT for May yet but the ECS shunts are shown at both ends.

A number of the re-instated CrossCountry trains to Reading have been taken out again - I did wonder if it was pending a retiming to join the ones not stopping at Banbury?

Apologies if already posted but they have no longer appear to be serving Blackpool with the trains involved showing ECS Crewe CS to Preston and vv

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere but the Sunday Cardiff-Nottingham service reduced to two-hourly from the timetable change appeared to be worse than ever last Sunday, but got off to a better start yesterday, with the only the last two departures from Cardiff running ECS to...

The paths seem to have little connection with the non-running Avanti Chester services and particularly on the down more utilisation of a common path with Lumo. In was a bit surprised to see a 19.36 given that I would have expected the last Lumo to have utilised it if there was one, instead of...

The track access application is now on the Network Rail website. Down to four trains, which have schedules including Wellington times but no Darlaston times , although still proposing to call there , in addition to Willenhall and "Shropshire & Mid-Wales Parkway" and no Aldridge times. Later...

Apologies if this has been mentioned - RTT and the NRT both show the Newquay branch times as until 4th April, but no such remark on the pdf from the GWR website.

67005 carrying an allocation 1TFW on earlier list. Apologies if already discussed but AFAIK it can't work push-pull, so presumably a Thunderbird?

Dragged back to Crewe - 16.30 over five hours after it first left.

The Newquay branch service has appeared overnight - two-hourly, all using p2, but the first train shown starting back from Penzance SX and departures from Newquay from 09.20 to 19.20 with four minute waits at Goss Moor, also SX. ; Sunday service remains three trains, but shown p.1 at Newquay

As well as 5Z84 booked via Chester presumably to get it the appropriate way round, 1W55 also seems to have run via Chester and terminated at Crewe for no obvious reason other than to make its back working.

1W96 shows in RTT as 197 coupled to the mk.5s - as it happens weather and a signal fault mean the Cardiff - Chester bit is reported 104 late. ; The restart seems to have been initially 1Z96, then changed to 1T96 but no-one seems to have told Chester as it has Chester South Jcn and Flint times on...