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I understand where you are coming from, but there will be fewer local services anyway - Edinburgh-Dunblane will be electrified in a couple of years. In any case, it would not be a good idea to put the newly-modified HSTs onto local services that don't need that configuration. Much better to...

Various things have been stated "officially" from time to time, like Inverness - Perth hourly then extended alternately Glasgow/Edinburgh, with accelerated services. Now we have many additional services planned for by class 170 retentions, Glasgow - Dundee (hourly?) semi-fasts etc. All this will...

Are there yet any notional timetables / diagrams for the HSTs coming to Scotland in 2018/19? I'm thinking of the equivalents to those produced for the GWML IEP services. Thanks much.

It certainly would have been scheduled, in that very considerable organisation of the attempt took place, particularly of the Edinburgh run. Undoubtedly a Special Traffic Notice would have been required, since the Edinburgh train was running additionally from Euston to Carstairs. Whether that...

There was one scheduled non-stop London - Glasgow train, and you have to go back a very long time, AND it was steam-hauled! The LMS ran it in April 1928, using a Royal Scot loco, appropriate enough for the 'Royal Scot' train. The occasion was to get a bit of publicity on the day before the...