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Had a quick look at RTT for the last couple of days and it does look like EMR have pulled themselves together and run all the IC (and Connect) trains they had said they would with no obvious cancellations at the London end and I didn't spot any very late running either. Connect seems to be all...

The scope of the works at each site is helpfully outlined on UK Gov Find a Tender service, which to summarise is a procurement of 3 lots Lot 1 is Coventry: Up to 10 730/0, includes electrification and provision for cleaning and tanking/toilets Lot 2 is Northampton: Includes tanking/cleaning at...

More than one thing can be true at the same time. It can be the correct/acceptable thing to do, but it can also look bad. It's not really what he did that's the issue, but how what he did is perceived by others, and in particularly customers who are not railway people. 1. Obviously true some...

Also believe from posts on that site that Roger Ford/Informed Sources has (finally?) taken a close look at what's going on at EMR. I haven't seen it but would welcome views from those that have about whether it reveals any more information. There is also some coverage in Rail Magazine (link...

Certainly agree at this point. The various statements are all in the "supportive but non-commital" mode. To see any signs of optimism, I'd expect to see EMCA (which does not include Leicestershire), Leicester City and the new Leicestershire unitary authority to come together to form a...

Northbound, one of the most common issues is that the Sheffield train catches a TL that calls at St Albans on the fast lines before crossing to the slows before Harpenden. The Nottingham train is right behind the Sheffield so will also be delayed at this point. On a really good day, the...

It does look like EMR IC service performance is improving this week. I am speculating but I think they forgot Option 6 6. Struggle on; wait for cooler weather to reduce failure rates and bail you out. (Optional next step for Senior Leaders: claim credit for the improvements and receive...

More generally, EMR IC & Connect performance does seem to have been better in the last couple of days. Unless anybody has seen Dumbledore visit the depots, I presume this is primarily down to cooler weather. On the plus side, this makes me think that the slightly-less-reduced timetable that EMR...

When I heard there was something decrepit, smashed to pieces and abandoned at St Pancras, I thought immediately of the "Class 222 Declining Reliability" thread.

Industrial action is only on Saturdays on EMR

Experienced similar coming through Proof House area into New Street from the Water Orton Direction. Almost certainly buddleia. From the gardener's perspective there's a lot of new small varieties that stop at 1-2m tall so are not as hellbent on world domination as the traditional buddleia, but...

"Diagrammed" feels like it's doing quite a lot of heavy lifting in the context of EMR over the last days and weeks!

If you're worried about the railway running at a loss, you should see the losses the NHS has been accruing, year after year since 1948. This is an increasingly popular public perception. It's especially true for people I talk to up in here in EMR-land where we have both the current...

Scope creep. The original Grayling 2017 cancellation stopped at Corby and Kettering North Junction. Then it was accepted that they needed to get to Braybrooke GSP somehow. For some reason it was extended to Harborough (the end point was going to be south of Great Bowden Road Bridge). Then it got...

If GWR's most diehard optimists have been reading some of the many and varied "EMR are a total shambles" threads on here, they will have perhaps observed the informed gossip there is about the ex-Avanti 221s. This may lead them to ask, "Wait, so this means that some 180s are available?" <(...

Do you have any thoughts on the disparity between 360 and 700 availability? It might be interesting to compare the penalties for non-availability across the two contracts. EMR appear to have thrown in the towel with regards Connect. It is now a Kettering-Corby shuttle, with ticket validity on...

There isn't much to shorten is there?

As we all know, IC is also a shambles due to lack of trains. If ever there was a time when Connect should not be robbing a train set from the IC operation to stave off collapse, it is now. And the question is of course "how did we end up with the nomadic maintenance regime?". Perhaps another...

No. But if we were doing something like that, it needs to be scoped to look GB wide to look at all the other problematic rolling stock projects that probably constitute about a third of all the messages that have ever been posted here! It's something they should be paying attention to, given...

It does seem that the informal line being taken is to wave in the general direction of Italy, perhaps making an association to 1970s/80s rusty Fiats in the minds of the middle-aged male railway journos! The role of Italian engineering in - say - aerospace tends not to get a mention at this...