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Seems like once the Huddersfield to Bradford service is separated out from the Huddersfield to Leeds stopper again that the former will be extended through to Leeds to replace the Leeds to Bradford portion of the Hull to Halifax service, with a reduction in the overall Bradford to Halifax...

A 155 is allocated to the 10:15 Hull to Halifax and return 12:15 Halifax to Hull where the unit then heads to Hull Botanic Gardens

Indeed, although 3 was rarely used anyway and 2 only got the quick turnaround on the hourly Darlo-Saltburn shuttle which is now on 6 of course. It's the loss of regular service on 1 which feels most strange with only an hourly use on the Bishop-Saltburn service with a handful of longer distance...

And the 61 and the X4. Which in PVR terms those four services makes up a large proportion of services operated from the borough. Take them out of the equation you're only left with 1/2, 3A/3C, 52, 200 and 26/26A/27/27A services local to Halton and the 32, 62/62A, X30 and 110 which run to...

Both TPE and Northern have now published details of their changes: TPE: Main highlight is the already known overnight service between Piccadilly and the Airport - made up of dedicated shuttles and some existing late night/early morning services being extended to/from the Airport. Redcar's: The...

These are only in as short-term changes to the timetable in the first couple months - if you look in say July then the Aberdeen services are unchanged - the 19:25 extending from Doncaster to Kings Cross (KGX) is still in there tho - pretty sure that was one of the changes that was to be...

In an ideal world it should happen, but I think the reality is that it earmarks one of the pitfalls of franchising which is cross-boundary routes. There's been similar situations over on the border between Manchester and Warrington/Cheshire East I believe where services have ended up being split...

It's worth noting that in the list of services for St Helens, the 61 was listed as being a permit service (i.e. not included in franchising), while none of the 61, 79C, 82A, or X4 appear in the ones for Liverpool - I imagine until things become clearer it might be something they don't care to...

Yes, for now Rock Ferry is intended to remain open for the operation of the 1/X1 (which has been excluded from LCR due to its cross-border nature with CW&C - despite not being fully operated from Chester), for paintshop/repair work (as noted they already do a lot of work on Manchester vehicles...

I guess if they can make it fit currently without the need to split then it makes sense for the direct service to be retained - perhaps something that might have to give-way in the future! But yes in theory once the new platforms open there will only really be a need for one platform in the...

Personally I think there's very few Northern services that would make sense under TPE's operation at this stage - and in fact the plan is seemingly for the Manchester to Huddersfield (and on to York via Castleford) stopping services to pass over to Northern from TPE in the future. The...

Sorry, yes didn't explain that last point very well, fewer overall interlinking, but it now occurs during the day rather than just first/last trains running onto/off Edinburgh's. Another point of note is that an 802 will now stable overnight at Siemens in York.

Something to note is that from December, TPE's utilisation of its 802 fleet improves massively and so does capacity on the Liverpool to Hull service as a result. Currently one 802 is used on Scarborough to Manchester Victoria services which spends most of the AM peak on layover at Victoria and...

With regard to Durham vs Darlington - the original timetable had the Edinburgh semi-fast as stopping at Darlington once every two hours and Durham the other hour - this has clearly been changed to Darlington receiving the hourly call. Does anyone know why this change was made? If it hadn't, you...

It was rumoured to be 170 operated at one point but looking at RTT it appears 158's will be more likely. The board which starts from Leeds in the morning is timetabled from Platform 10B, having operated a Leeds-Knottingley board the previous day and thus very unlikely to be a 170 - though of...