The last London-Leeds passes non stop, or certainly did in the previous timetable when I last used it.
True, but it doesn’t always run through Westgate, it often takes diversionary routes between Doncaster and Leeds.
Every time I've used it, we've gone via Wakefield.
I track that train every night I’m working for work purposes, and it does divert frequently. It also often runs extremely early.
Which is helpful as I'm connecting onto TPE off it. Only missed the earlier train once!
This is not uncommon, done it many times over the past 20 years when traveling on the WCML at weekends.
The ECS XC via Guildford and Wokingham runs Mon-Wed-Fri every week according to RTT. It’s not a ‘sometimes’ diversion in the normal sense. There’s also a booked service every weekday in the opposite direction.
There are no SWR or XC passes of passenger services, and although there are many SWR empty stock moves throughout the day there are only 1 or 2 empty XC services. There was a period a year or two back when XC skipped a number of Winchester and Brockenhurst calls for spurious capacity reasons.
I may be misremembering but I recall Avanti tried a non-stop Brum-London at the start of their franchise. It may even have been late VWC.
I mentioned that one in an earlier comment, it was definitely started by Virgin and inherited by Avanti.
It’s bizarre that 0717 train from Holyhead does not call at Prestatyn on Sundays considering that the train has called previously at Abergele a much less busy station that normally has much lower frequency service?
Also strange that upon arrival at Crewe at or around 0921, the exact same train then shuttles back in service as the 0922 to Holyhead, but with a turnaround time far less than the Minimum Connection Time at Crewe, and this time with a call at Prestatyn.
It's only really used to terminate a faulty unit to run it off to Haymarket depot. Nothing is booked to use it.
Not true. I think the people at Taplow, Langley, Iver, Hayes & Harlington, Southall, Hanwell, West Ealing and Acton Mainline would like to have a chat with you.
I think that's the Elizabeth Line. Crossrail is the Paddington to Abbey Wood/Stratford bit.
It’s the same thing. Crossrail was just the project name for the line. Reading is as much Crossrail as Abbey Wood.
If we disregard GWR, Hayes & Harlington and Southall are potential candidates for this thread as all Elizabeth line services call save for a few super-peaks?
Yes - well within the spirit of the thread.
Well Hayes and Harlington and Southall are skipped by the peak time fast trains to Reading.
There's also some Chiltern services which run nonstop through various mixtures of the shared Met stations, though if you count them as passing through Moor Park, Northwood, Northwood Hills, Pinner and North Harrow, the proportion goes up a fair bit
I suspect that the Chiltern services (or the Amersham Met ones) may not count at most of the stations you mention do not have platforms on the "fast" lines. Only Moor Park would count as it has 2 island platforms.
Corrrect. It has always run non-stop from Oxford to Moreton-in-Marsh to make sure it is able to get to Worcester quickly enough to be through Norton junction before the 05.23 from Hereford needs the single line to Evesham.
