Recent content by Royston Vasey

You want to put Voyagers on the one hour local stopper and not the 3.5 hour semifast?! The Leicesters also interwork with Stansted diagrams so must be @XCTurbostar s ;)

CEPs to 444s must have felt like travelling forward decades in time, although the 444s were barely a step up, if at all, from the 442s that had also operated the same routes for 15 years by that point!

Shortly I will be adding three curiosities to my end-to-end list (two of which qualify for the figurative red pen) in one trip. East Croydon to Watford Junction Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey Bedford to Bletchley How else would one get from London to Stafford?!

Shambolic to run a £7-figure fundraising specifically to acquire 325s, not run them (or anything else) for a year and then scrap the lot. That's not being sentimental about 325s, that's just baffling management. But I think with Robin Gisby coming on board (in every sense) earlier this year and...

Your postie can now be collected from Mossend Delivery Office

"Your postie was delivered to a neighbour"

I note the seat booked is the wheelchair space and companion seat. If this was a requirement (I don't want to assume anything), is the requirement for a wheelchair space been a factor here, e.g. all other wheelchair accommodation on all portions are booked that night? And/or some pragmatic...

I hope you're not driving a bus at 5:20am after a sleepless night in the seated coach of the Highlander, are you? o_O

The acceleration to 100 would be catastrophic for already catastrophic timekeeping. They're not just a 700 with a door, a 717 has 1,200 kW per unit compared to 3,300 kW on a 700/0. They're also too short at 6 car and couldn't be doubled up as they'd be too long for the level crossings. No...

A handful of reasons for this. Firstly because 12 cars can serve it, unlike Shepreth and Foxton where the rear four would foul level crossings in the down direction. This gives Ashwell a Thameslink service and my mind forgets how hard the good rail users of Ashwell and the Mordens fought for...

LNER and others have been dispatching trains from Kings Cross for almost two hours. GN haven't managed one yet and the 1336 2C32 KGX-CBG currently (at 1405) showing delayed and the 1406 2C34 KGX-CBG expected to depart 32 late (a train is at least inbound to form it). I'm at Stevenage having...

I don't consider that very much remarshalling! Fair point on the Liv Street joiner though. Are there others? The majority turn around in quick time and head back north as-is.

Since very little marshalling occurs at Cambridge and none at Liverpool Street, a 5 car is locked in as such for several hours and even if you don't see it rammed on one leg, it may be on the next, or the one after that, or after that. Without knowing what time and direction you travel I can't...

Whatever one thinks of the company and its founder, Robin Gisby is a fantastic addition to the board, now Chairman which is news to me, a really good guy by all accounts and a proper railwayman. I wish him well

Rule of thumb when booking a seat in standard on an 80x, the tables have a full window, the airline seats behind the table seats therefore do not, and the airline seats two rows back from the table always have an excellent view.