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Caledonian Sleepers is currently operated under an Emergency Measures Agreement (EMA) whereby Transport Scotland fund it and pay Serco a small single digit % margin on their operating costs to run it. The Franchise agreement is such that this (from a funding position at least) is pretty much...

Loadings were high during the relaxation of restrictions in mid-2020 (and there wouldn't have been that many foreign tourists). The services are currently reasonably populated (esp to INV) even though technically full restrictions are still in place. Restrictions on foreign travel also work...

What is an appropriate price? The current prices passengers pay only cover 40% of the cost of running the trains. There's very, very few things you can get in life where you only pay 40% of what it actually costs for you to be have / use that product. That's an absolute bargain.

I *think* it’s 20:00.

Yes - trialling (perhaps unsurprisingly) a Load 12 train. Next up is 5Z77 to Fort William tomorrow (Wed) which will be Load 10: Realtime Trains - 5Z77 0944 Polmadie Car M.D. to Fort William (92006 will work the rake out to Waverley, for the two 73/9s ex-Craigentinny to then take to Fort Bill.)

With the current reduced service (one train each way only) south of Carlisle the driver turns are (numbering for ease of reference only): 1. Euston-Crewe (1S25) 2. Crewe-Carlisle (1S25) / Carlisle-Crewe (1M16) 3. Crewe-Euston (1M16) (Plus 2x other drivers who work the evening and morning ECS...

A single 73/9 once took an 8 coach portion plus two dead-on-rear 92s from Polmadie to Edinburgh (via the Sub). That's an extra 252 tonnes in tow, or the equivalent of a Load 14. It dropped a few mins but was only single-digits late on arrival at Edinburgh - and there's some climbs on that...

Assuming it's Sunday nights, then the Sleepers are already running via ECML on Sunday nights in May. This means for 1M11 (assuming everything is running by then) the Glasgow portion runs across to Edinburgh and joins with the Edinburgh portion (which has run out earlier as ECS) there, before...

Yes - GBRf bought back two additional 92s from long-term store to support the Sleeper contract. 92006 in July 2019 after 13 years in the wilderness and 92020 reinstated in December 2018 after almost 18 years in store - has to be one of the most "miraculous" comebacks in modern times...

No, it’s absolute garbage and I’ve corrected the note on RailCam. Not sure why people feel the need to add notes on there when they’re clearly bereft of the facts. 92006 was stored Feb 2006, reinstated by GBRf in July 2019 and has been active in the Sleeper pool since then. It’s been at Crewe...

Despite several earlier replies, at the current time (and for the past couple of years) the southern legs have in the main been driven by Crewe depot, along with a couple of the Liverpool men. They are "traditionally" Willesden turns, but in practice not at the moment. Willesden still do the...

It wasn't, so it isn't.

The fact the service was delayed at Kingussie for around 6.5 hours would strongly indicate it was something important / required for the onward progress of the train. Not sure why concerns about other trains hitting debris would've stopped 1S25 for that long??

Still not been out. At any given time currently only 28 coaches of 75 are required due to the reduced timetable, so don't expect to see 15340 reappearing for a long while.

They were already open this afternoon. or at least the two on Chester Way were over the Dane and the Weaver. London Road past Waitrose and Weaver Court also dry and open. Great effort by all those who've been getting rid of the water, including an army of local famers with tractors and tankers...

Wouldn't the water go downhill into the river? The road bridges were still passable for the majority of the day. It's also not a huge town - it's not really a long way to head out onto the bypass and get from one side to the other without going through the very centre where its flooded. A...

Have I misunderstood or are you suggesting "grandfather" rights would permit unlocking doors that were not at a platform? On a passenger service in 2019? Really??

Anyone from Northwich commenting on this thread? We need local expertise for this one I'd say. Someone on the ground who knows the local area.

It usually goes in / is booked for P6. Only tends to go in P12 when something is in the way on P6 that probably shouldn’t be there (eg. late running empty units).

Serco partnered with GBRf as traction provider in their bid - was then up to GBRf how to resource the traction/crews. GBRf already had the Alcans running to Fort William, so had crews and "depots" covering that route - so more sense to utilise/expand that resource than hire it in. That's not...