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There is a special bar coupling kept in the luggage compartment on the HST PC which you can use to couple the PC to a loco (or another HST PC or even something like a voyager).

After the well publicised rolling stock problems I was a little surprised to see 2 GC HSTs sat one behind the other waiting to get into York on the down main yesterday (24/06). I also saw another GC HST heading southbound between Darlington and Northallerton (I didn't think this was their normal...

Did the HST PC provide power then when it was leading? That would have been quite lively 8)

The only people it makes any sense to is the government who forced it through.

The wheels look ridiculous :???: but the acceleration is out of this world for a diesal :-D

A 7 car hst is probally about as quick as a voyager with an engine out (which in theory should keep time) but XC can suffer at times through horrendous regulation futher compounded by some of the congested areas they have to pass through.

I don't know very much about 67s but I'm sure I was once told that the noise for the drivers in the cab was pretty much intolerent once the ETH (Electric Train Supply) was switched on as even when the loco's were stationary the engine revs were equivalent to approx half power being selected (if...

I'd never noticed the engines rev down when they stop but that would be consistent with what I said about the Reverser. The engines revving down when they stop would either be caused by the driver replacing the direction switch from forward to neutral or losing the door interlock by releasing...

I don't think the engines rev up at all for the doors. You can open and close doors with the engines shut down. The engines do however rev up if the driver has door interlock (all doors shut) and moves the reverser to forward. Just by moving the reverser from neutral to froward (but not taking...

You can open and close doors on a Voyager with the engines shut down

The reverser (I think direction switch is the proper name) is normally only in forward or reverse when you need to move the train. When the train is stationary it would normally be placed in Engine Only (though I think it may be called neutral on units) i.e. neither forward or reverse selected...

It does. It's when forward is selected with the doors shut (you said it happened once the TMs door shut) but before power is taken. Once power is taken engine revs will increase further. It just sounds like for some reason in your video once the unit was in forward there was a delay before power...

It was quite hard to tell off your video but 16 seconds would be a long time to sit their in forward. Once the doors are shut the driver still needs 2 buzzes off the TM to depart. Their may have been a delay in this happening for some reason at Oxford. PS You can't power in neutral on a Voyager

Once the driver has door interlock (i.e. all doors closed) placing the direction switch in forward increases the engine revs slightly whether or not power is selected. The second increase in engine revs is when power is actually taken.

I hope not but with the way the railway is run it wouldn't surprise me. However I believe several TOCs have implemented emergency timetables in the past for various reasons and I don't believe any of them ever had to give any paths up.

Thats perhaps not a bad idea. I mean no trains is probally not really much worse than running a service which pretty much sounds unusable at the moment. The problem at the moment is they are getting a horrendous reputation. Would suspending the service even save them money because if they are...

Does anybody know what kind of MTU engines (I thought I saw somewhere there are more than one type) are going to be on the XC refurbished PCs? Are they likely to make any noise at all?

I could be wrong but surely you are making up the fact NXEC is paying a premium to keep branch lines like the Durham coast open. NXEC are paying a premium to be allowed to operate an extremely lucrative franchise with huge numbers of 1st class business travellers. Further more as has already...

As I believe people on the forum know members of Great Central staff is it possible to find out from them how this system of buying tickets on board works. Is it purely to allow you to buy a ticket if you join at an unstaffed station (or one where the booking office is closed) or is it indeed...

That is a very good point and I am fully aware how many people do attempt to travel fraudulently on the railways. Unfortunately if Great Central have indeed made it legal (I have no idea about the legality or otherwise) or advertised that it is acceptable to buy tickets on board I don't see that...