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The payments don't seem that unrealistic once the new services start, Stadgecoach are nobody's mugs, it seems they have only promised 2.3 bn, with the extra billion dependant on revenue earned

New menu starts Monday, details on the EC website, although it does clash with the Xmas menu

Fair point but to not put any slack in your business plan for poor trading figures was stupid really, and just a bit desperate to secure the franchise

Orr, poor National Depressed, they thought the economy would just keep growing and growing, and passenger numbers keep rising and rising, it's not like recessions have ever happened before is it? :roll: I wonder if the DFT were made to do their sums again in the same way they did in the west...

I'm lost? DOR took over EC in Nov 2009. It was DOR who launched the new timetable and the free meals/drinks were launched at the same time (May 2011). They provided all the investment in the catering (extra staff and re fitted kitchens). Then there was the huge back log in train maintenance that...

Are you sure? Thought it was stabled at Craigentinny until tomorrow morning

Yeah going back a few years in GNER days on that 1950 service off Glasgow, a Newcastle crew took over at Newcastle, they slept on it at Doncaster for a few hours and worked the 0615 Glasgow service back in the morning as far as Newcastle. In those days it just stabled in plat 8 overnight and...

1E06, 0650 Glasgow-KX lost its pantograph, causing damage to the overheads on the south end of the viaduct at Berwick. Luckily no damage to the down line wires so single line working could at least be implemented while repairs took place.

Saturday evenings there is a Edinburgh-Doncaster service which then runs ECS to Neville Hill

Old habits die hard :roll:

1. Based on the fact the last few guards jobs at Leeds that went external went to ex Northern guards then yes I say you do have a better chance but no to going to full pay quicker. 2. There is only 1 link for guards at Kings Cross, it's a 12 week cycle based on an average of 35 hrs per week and...

Seems like a waste of rolling stock, for what are token services that need to have cheap advances between Edinburgh and Aber/Inv to fill them. These will become less easy to sell if Scotrail have much increased capacity as they will be able to compete on advance fares. Having said that I suppose...

I wonder if Dec 2018 could spell the end of EC services running north of Edinburgh, with the introduction of HSTs on the Aberdeen/Inverness to Edinburgh runs. It would free up paths for Scotrail and help reduce costs on the EC franchise, with any guards and catering staff based at Aberdeen or...

Just google East Coast jobs then, not many jobs advertised so easy to find

http://https://recruitment.eastcoast.co.uk/Vacancy.aspx?MenuID=6Dqy3cKIDOg=