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Allow me to quote something I said half an hour ago in another thread: :wink:

Oh dear, the mistakes, they are painful. :P

Any argument based on "the timetable used to be like this ten years ago" isn't a very strong one. Why are we using long past service patterns to inform decisions on the present railway?

XC to Glasgow is two-hourly. The other hours either terminate at Edinburgh or extend to Dundee and Aberdeen.

XC inherited Edinburgh to Glasgow from East Coast in May 2011. IT was chosen to drop King's Cross to Glasgow as a regular route because the WCML upgrades of the 2000s had made it very unattractive; but the Glasgow extensions were tacked on to XC services to maintain the direct link between...

Which, for those unaware, is summer 2015 for Marylebone to Oxford Parkway, and spring 2016 for Marylebone to Oxford General.

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Yeah but that's still a year or two off. By which time even more electrification should have been completed.

I thought the Liverpool–Warrington shuttle was being removed once electrification is complete in December (diverted to Manchester presumably).

Could be using 156s displaced by the Cumbernauld electrification, which fingers crossed should be ready for action in May.

No idea. Presumably when enough drivers are trained on the new route.

I'm not sure it's possible. The National Rail network in London (particularly south of the river) has a lot more lines than the Tube, and the stations are on average somewhat further apart, so you'd have quite a bit more track to cover to bag all the stations than you would in the Tube...

Interestingly... the original claims are now being refuted.

Although that service is on its way out, as Pendolinos are now cleared for Golborne to Manchester so can get to Longsight under their own power.

Except, as I've just said, they're only 90 mph and the current Chiltern timetable is timed to 100 mph. Unless all that engineering work and blockades in 2010-11 for journey time improvements between Birmingham and London was for nothing.

Wouldn't be popular replacing 168s with 165s. Plus Turbos are only capable of 90 mph, whereas the current Chiltern timetable is built around 100 mph mainline services. And there aren't anywhere near enough Mk3s to take over all services beyond Banbury (currently 2tph to Birmingham and 1tp2h...

To be fair, it's not baseless speculation...

Has it been confirmed that TfL are taking these services over (whether under the LO or Crossrail brand)? I know there have been a lot of rumours but I thought TfL were saying they didn't want anything to do with them.

The line appears to be closed north of Penrith today.

Which Transpennine routes do you mean?