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It sounded like NPR had been in discussions ... and Gov .UK statement reports the PM as announcing an integrated plan.
( While I know words can be carefully used in parliamentary circles ... )
BBC Radio 4 "World at One" programme today carried a relevant interview ... (available on BBC Sounds about 25:20 from the start) ... in which Henri Murison a director of Northern Powerhouse Rail described the engineering sense in bringing together the North-South line building (currently in HS2)...
Tickets for travel in (Manchester) Metrolink Zone 1 (formerly Central Zone) are a free add-on to any rail ticket starting in the Greater Manchester rail area and result in "Manchester Central Zone" being the destination station.
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Correct, as I recall from First Scotrail days ... the Scottish crew that worked Southbound Lowlander on a Sunday night would hotel near Euston daytime Monday and ride North on the Monday night service. Always a cheery Scots welcome Northbound on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
The sleeper...
Recalling (from my year as the "mystery snoozer" on the Lowlander over a decade ago) the limited refreshments stock loaded at Edinburgh and Preston ... when our breakfast pickup was 3 hours delayed by a Cumbrian track-side fatality after leaving Carlisle ... there is not a lot that staff can do...
It is actually ... https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps ... for Carlisle
a most useful companion site to Real-Time-Trains, especially at stations like Euston for spotting which platform your train's coaching stock has arrived on; before RTT shows the departure platform and long before the...
What an eventful early morning ... and I wonder how often the Lowland Sleepers have both berthed at Carlisle ?
IM11 on platform 4 and 1S26 on Platform 1
However, the Scotrail timetable for the West Highland line shows Corrour as a stop (and other stations with "x" as request stops) on the morning CS service.
I would be chancing it ... as a boy my local station (Builth Road) was only request stops and it was easier than you might think.
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