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Its not that the ride is universally bad, as such. Firstly, it varies between sets, even between individual bogies on the same coach. I was on 68027 last week and one end of coach D rode very smoothly and quietly, the other end was very "fidgety" with lots of banging and rumbling going. This...

Apologies its taken me a while to respond, the runs on Thursday 12.12 were definitely a 185, I viewed 5A94 returning to York myself. So just the one mk.5 set, so far.

Two points: 1) "all crews" for 68's & mk.5's will certainly not be trained by the end of January, training for York crews is being pushed further back. 2) the ratio of trained crews to diagrams is insufficient, so as more crews are trained the number of diagrams increases, there's currently far...

Do you have dates for the Redcar test runs? I have one (02.12.19), but not the other. Thanks.

Scarborough has had a train crew depot for many years and now has a new servicing point for TPE trains, a shuttle between York and Scarborough should be able to be organised with resources like that at hand. The reality is of course that there are no contingency plans in place, and too few and...

The 22.46 ex Scarborough is indeed cancelled again this evening, it's only run once this week (Weds).

Utter shambles today. One diagram mostly caped, now 68022 and stock on the other diagram has been taken out of service due to a fault. As for 4 diagrams from Sunday? Good luck with that!

I think the worst was advising passengers via TPE JourneyCheck who were intending to travel on the (yet again) cancelled 22.46 departure from Scarborough to "catch the next TPE service towards their destination" - what? at 06:00 the next morning? Disgraceful. How long before, heaven forbid, a...

68019 'Brutus' is currently working 1F62 10.41 Scarborough (SCA)-Liverpool (LIV) It should then work: 1E39 13.56 LIV-SCA 1F76 17.44 SCA-LIV 1J53 20.56 LIV-Stalybridge. The locomotive is hauling towards Liverpool and propelling towards Scarborough. 68027 'Splendid', which stabled at...

68019 'Brutus' is currently working 1F60, 09.41 Scarborough (SCA) - Liverpool (LIV) It should then work: 1E37 12.56 LIV-SCA 1F74 16.44 SCA-LIV 1E51 19.56 LIV-SCA 1P98 22.46 SCA-Manchester Piccadilly The locomotive is propelling towards Liverpool and hauling towards Scarborough. **Update 19:00...

68027 'Splendid' is currently working 1E25, 06.56 Liverpool (LIV) -Scarborough (SCA) It should then work: 1F62 10.41 SCA-LIV 1E39 13.56 LIV-SCA 1F76 17.44 SCA-LIV 1J53 20.56 LIV-Stalybridge. The locomotive is propelling towards Scarborough and hauling towards Liverpool. **update 16:30** -...

I would suggest that for most of the average passengers once their train is cancelled, the actual reason is fairly academic. And at the moment there are far, far too many TPE passengers finding their train is cancelled. The fact that the train is cancelled is probably inconvenient, maybe in some...

Just been reading a story on the BBC website about alleged doping in Russian sport, they said for Russia "the traditional techniques - deny, accuse, bluster - are all in play." For some reason TPE popped into my mind.......

There has been on and off debate on here about the relative loading times for the new end door stock compared to 185's, well this is the official word on that from the latest TPE staff update on the December timetable change: "1½ minute dwells have been inserted as a minimum for end door stock...

Well there has been an announcement about Liverpool - Scarborough services. Redcar services - some training has taken place, but nowhere near enough to sustain an hourly service 7 days per week. Currently the option of hiring in freight drivers to route conduct TPE drivers from Middlesbrough is...

First mk.5 set north of York if I'm not mistaken. There was an extended stop planned at Yarm on the return working presumably for the usual platform tests, Yarm won't accommodate a full rake. For the record, the locomotive was on the Redcar end.

As the title says, and presumably in preparation for the introduction of the Paragon Fleet, Hull Trains practice of leaving Coach E (now coach D, 1st class is now E) completely unreserved has ended. Sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere.

This is from JourneyCheck - the 22.24 is the last TPE departure of the day from Lime Street: "22:24 Liverpool Lime Street to York due 00:24 will be cancelled. This is due to a shortage of train crew. Additional Information Please board the next available TransPennine Express service to your...

The 08.56 Liverpool - Scarborough will terminate at York, JourneyCheck advises: "We are advising customers to travel on the next available TransPennine Express service towards your destination."..... The next service, the 09.56 ex Lime Street? - also terminating at York...

North route ppm currently stands at 20% - it's some achievement to get it that low, even for TPE, given the route reopened at 08.45 this morning. They've had ticket acceptance for Malton and Scarborough on the Coastliner buses this afternoon!!