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As a daily commuter on EMT (and sitting on the 1815 STP-NOT in a MkIII as I type), I'm really really pleased that they are keeping the original low back seats. I find the high-backs per FGW or the EMT 158 refurb really claustrophobic. All the sight lines get curtailed. I am also told that...

1850 KGX to Hull Adelente failed yesterday (Thursday 25th June) a mile or so north of Grantham. I only comment because I got off at Grantham and the following may add some colour. Left KGX on time and arrived at Grantham approx 5 mins early (1947ish). Just before Grantham there was an...

If you go through them to the "paid" side before the platfom is announced you'll find that there are no departure boards or platform end information displays to tell you from which platform your train is departing. (The picture also rather nicely shows the A3 laminated platform number signs...

Hello Ticket barriers seem to be around 2/3rds completed in the upper concourse for platforms 1-4 for EMT. Has anyone seen them who can give me a clue as to why they've been placed where they are (i.e. why the location, not why the need for the barriers). It looks like they will take away...

Ah thank you, I see it now on this map http://www.joyce.whitchurch.btinternet.co.uk/maps/LMR1961c.jpg Thought it might be a Great Central thing, but couldn't work out why that would influence Midland mile posts, but your explanation to look at the Midland route via Melton and Corby...

Hello Every day I take the train from Nottingham to London and I wonder why to the south of Nottingham the numbers on the yellow mile posts go up (first 125, then 126) and before they go down again. Is it really that the distances are measured from London and to begin with the train is...

There's a special interest website trainsardine.org which might suit this thread better. It has a forum http://www.youforum.co.uk/train_sardine/index.php. Though it isn't very active.

A limited amount of rolling stock, a limited number of paths on the track; running a TOC is about rationing between customers/destinations. At the southern end of the Midland mainline the new EMT timetable seems to have made things better. After a week of teething troubles (staff rosters to...

You wouldn't want your pension invested a leasing a diesel train... Enviornmental railway to nowhere, will they make their full operational service life? Enough people seem to think not so leasing companies may find it hard to finance them. EMT Norwich to Liverpool: electrify the Midland...

0648 NOT-STP this am they decided to open the trailing 5-car at Leicester. BTW the train doesn't stop at Loughborough so not sure that platform length is the factor. Today the onboard PIS dsiplayed coach N for the first half of the journey and then changed its mind and displayed coach K. No...

Cost/crew saving apart, what's the idea of driving about two five car Meridians nailed together, but only letting the passengers into half the train? This morning the 2x5 0648 NOT-STP seemed to run as a 5-car all the way until Wellingborough. As far as I could tell the second crew got on at...

0648 NOT-STP was 2x5 car Meridian. Good idea I thought, it's always over-crowded. Trouble is only 5 cars available until Kettering; so it's now over-crowded at Market Harborough in half the train, and empty in the other half Over time perhaps it will work out, because the good citizens of...

Thank you to everyone who has replied to my post. Especially helpful has been the pointers about: platform availability, interaction with other train operators, track access information, peak hours service needs, dwells & turnaround times. I'll continue the dialogue by private message.

Thank you very much for the information. I've also just found the Rules of the Plan on the NR website.

Hello I'm looking for some expert help and opinion on timetable planning/design. 1. Is there enough information in the public domain to make a reasonable attempt at designing a timetable that would "prove the concept"? 2. What is considered best practice for mixing fast inter-city...

Had lunch last Sunday with a recently retired senior manager from EMT. He directed me to read the franchise agreement. http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/passenger/publicregister/current/eastmidlands/ And of particular interest is comparing Service Commitment 1 (essentially the MML service)...

It's here: http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/EMTrains/AboutUs/StakeholderInformation/

ORCATS Raid Page 6 of this document http://downloads.rwa-rail.co.uk/Robert_Watson_Using_Network_Capacity_Effectively.pdf By consultants RWA Rail http://www.rwa-rail.co.uk/index.htm Suggests that rail companies make stops just to "game" the ticket revenue allocation system. So if you...

Full timetables now available from EMT website: http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/EMTrains/AboutUs/StakeholderInformation/

Full timetables now available from EMT website: http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/EMTrains/AboutUs/StakeholderInformation/