Recent content by stounloon

I was on board 1S18, travelling at 14:59 from NCL-BWK, yesterday. Due to a landslip south of Reston, we arrived at BWK @21:00 hrs, some 4h 20m late. We spent some three hours stopped at Chathill from 16:30, with three trains in front of us between us and the landslip area. Fortunately the train...

The full story of Reston station can be found here https://www.rages.org.uk/CampaignStory.html East Linton and Dunbar both have some massive house building developments underway, to cope with Edinburgh commuter overspill, the hope is that Reston station will trigger similar developments in East...

I live near Reston and I have no intention of ever using the station. It's going to be an unstaffed halt with no facilities whatsoever, and at the moment no bus service to speak of ( the local bus operator is slashing every local service they can, acting as though life operates on a nine to five...

I received this email from VTEC yesterday; "********,we just wanted to let you know that from 7 November, you'll no longer have the option to choose our m-Ticket method for any new tickets you book on our website. Our m-Ticket wallet app will still be available to download though. So if...

So it would appear that I ended up in the odd one out. Thanks for that info, Starmill.

Travelled NCL - BWK last Saturday in a refurbished HST, coach B. The trolley lady wasn't doing much business, perhaps due to the lack of seat back tables on which to place one's coffee? Is removal of the trolleys, and hence one staff member, part of the long term plan?

Thanks for the reply - I wasn't aware of that. 2+5 or 2+4 will be rather nippy.

Interesting stuff from Abellio re the use of HSTs - http://www.abellio.com/scotrail-passenger-story/true-intercity-railway-network-scotland Four and five carriage sets - is that a 2+9 HST split in two, with a DVT added to the end of each section? If not, then 2+4 HST = nifty acceleration! (Bear...