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No as its not an ECS but a Light Loco and they dont have passenger accomodation.

We will have to wait for the contracts to be signed to know for definite, but at the moment its 4-car 319s for Northern with 4-car 317s still being considered to filling the gap between the wires being switched on and the 319s becoming available.

They are very neccesary, you just have to take a look the Goods Loops in the evening and early morning to see the number of trains queuing to get into Neville Hill/Leeds. Neville Hill doesnt have the spare capacity to live without them and personaly speeking I dont think Neville Hill has the...

Ive just done an search for 24/10/12 and the DB web site is giving me an ICE departing Copenhagen at 07:45, 09:45, 11:45 and 15:45 with a EC at 17:45, all via the ferry/

They may not be checking tickets on the platforms that Virgin and XC use but they are still checking all the tickets on the other platforms, irrespective of TOC. As for on-board checks, the check can be carried out by the staff from one TOC even though they are on another TOCs train. However...

IIRC the catering on the Scottish TPE services are part of a separate contract to the rest. Rail Gourmet do provide the trolleys on the true trans-Pennine services, as already mentioned from bases at York and Piccadilly. In fact the staff on-board with the trolleys are Rail Gourmet staff in...

No. Its fresh air or nothing. Dumfries don't do discs and while Northern Carlisle crews work all but one of the Newcastle-Southwest Scotland services, sending a 158 down there is all but an operational no no. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- The only real option to...

This service is a Scotrail service to Carlisle and a Northern service beyond. A Northern 156 and crew are 'hired' for the Scotrail bit, the crew and stock arrive of the 05:27 Carlisle-Dumfries which is another Scotrail service that Northern operate. While this does not prevent 142s from...

Yes they are

Alnmouth station is a no smoking station, it has numerous signs saying its is an offence to smoke any where on the station and quote bye-law 3. A quiet corner where you think you can have a smoke without it affecting anyone else doesn't make it OK, it is still an offence.

Under the Railway Byelaws, which apply to both England and Scotland: - 3. Smoking No person shall smoke or carry a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, match, lighter or other lighted item on any part of the railway on or near which there is a notice indicating that smoking is not allowed. So...

Sometimes they are not miles apart, but the very next train. Instead of headcodes which identify the service, the Tyne & Wear Metro use a three digit Train Running Number which is used to identify that days diagram, however when a Metro enters the proper railway at Pelaw that running number has...

Ive started uploading imiges from my last round of trips abroad. First up is Bosnia, included are photos of the still unused Talgo sets: http://kingbboogaloo.smugmug.com/Europe/Bosnia/23970846_wJj23v#!i=1963018856&k=tBDM64n and also a small collection of photos from Serbia...

Another two handy sites for train formations and stock used are www.fernbahn.de for anything DB or passing through DBland and http://www.reisezuege.ch/reisezuege/ for anything in or passing through Switzerland.

A 322 failed at Kirkstall after a total loss of air. Another 321/322 was needed to assist.

Since GC became part of ARRIVA they have brought in cheep book-in-advance tickets and as you have noticed, its working.

The next big change will be eliminating Horbury Junction. The plan is everything will be sorted out at Kirkgate and two pairs of lines will run parallel from there to Horbury where they will go there separate ways. How this will effect the layout at Kirkgate I don't know.

Around 80 Drivers I think. They spend 90% of there time on class 333 bouncing around 'The Triangle'. The rest of the time its nights or the odd trip to Morecambe. After about 10 years you get to go to Carlisle.

I left Leeds two years ago and the state of play then was: It is a 24 hour a day, 365 days a year depot. Earliest book on was 03:57 (MO) otherwise its 04:12. Latest book off was 01:12. Frost Protection on Christmas Day & Boxing Day was covered by volunteers. There are at least three night...

I'm more interested in the technical and political side of the railways than the Spotting and number crunching side, so for me its Modern Railways and Railway Gazette. The former for Uncle Rodger, Mr Miles and more recently Mr Walmsley. They tend to be one step ahead of their peers and in...