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    Trivia: Longest ECS working

    What ECS workings are the longest, in terms of distance or time? This has to be workings that are regularly scheduled daily/weekly in the working timetable, not one offs. 3B81 0439 Neville Hill to Lincoln must be a candidate.
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    East Coast disruption 27/11

    Major disruption on the East Coast mainline tonight, looks like 1S30 1830 Kings Cross to Edinburgh has brought the wires down around Newark, and has subsequently been cancelled All trains from the 1749 to Leeds onwards are currently at a stand. As this train and the 1800 are in front of the...
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    Grand central disruption 07/11

    Does anyone know what happened with 1D71 & 1A67 today, 1D71 seemed to have left London on time, but was 103 mins late at Doncaster? This caused the southbound service 1A67 to run over an hour late, but some how managed to make most of this up by the time it arrived in London, did it miss out...
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    Class 185 seating plan

    Have Transpennine Express changed their seating plans on class 185s recently. I've got a standard class advance ticket here for coach A seat 4, which on the plans available by searching on google, looks to be a first class seat? Can anyone clarify if this is the case?
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    Trains booked to use Newcastle High Level Bridge

    Besides local Northern services towards Sunderland, what other services are scheduled to use the High Level Bridge in Newcastle? Are services regularly scheduled this way or just when there is disruption?
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    TPE strengthening

    Does anyone have a list, or is there a list anywhere, of what services are supposed to be operated by more than one unit on First Transpennine Express. I'm mainly concerned with the North Transpennine route on weekdays.
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    Brighouse to Manchester

    Looking up the ticket prices for the 0859 journey on this service, an off peak return fare seems to be available, even though it is before 0930. The fare is cheaper than the peak fare available an hour earlier but not as cheap as the off peak fare available an hour later. Can anyone explain what...
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    East Coast air-con failures

    The other day I travelled down to London from Leeds and the air-con was broken in my carriage, as a result due to the weather it became uncomfortably hot. The train was full so nowhere to move to unless you wanted to stand. The conductor was helpful and friendly and handed out water and said...
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    Grand Central platform staff

    How many stations, if any do Grand Central employ staff to deal with their customers. I know they apparently have half of one person at Kings Cross but how about anywhere else? I've just been caught up in some GC disruption and it would have been nice to have a member of staff to take control...
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    Booked train on a connection

    A ticketing query that I hope you guys can advise on. I'm travelling from Leeds to Edinburgh in a few weeks, changing at York. It's a advance ticket route EC & Connections. As the Leeds to York part is a First TPE service I've got a booked train and seat reservation. Do I have to use...

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