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DfT decided so it went with XC. There were various discussions about an extra operator at New Street if the route went to EMT) (now EMR). These concerns came up again recently when the EMR franchise was being considered. You could make a case that the Birmingham-Leicester stoppers should be...

Out of curiosity, how would 2 X 5 car 801/1 perform on diesel?

Happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure the 9 car 801s operated on diesel when there was overhead wire damage at Finsbury Park earlier in the year.

In the early years of the VHF timetable the 1430 was also a 5 car Voyager Mondays to Thursdays. On a Friday the Voyager did an extra 1333 departure to Lancaster with the 1430 being a Pendolino and extended through to Glasgow.

It is. Drove by the Tallington site this afternoon and there's hundreds of the segments all stacked up on site.

Ran from May 2003 to September 2004. Leicester-Manchester journey time was around 1hr45m. Compared to the then WCML journey time of around 2hr20-2hr30, Manchester-London was around an hour longer.

Stopping pattern of Project Rio was... St Pancras Luton Bedford Wellingborough Kettering Market Harborough Leicester Stockport Manchester Piccadilly On the hour from St Pancras, and 47 past the hour from Piccadilly, journey time around 3hr 20m.

I doubt we'll see the S&C used for WCML diversions again. No AWC/TPE crews sign it anymore. The 20 AWC voyagers are soon to be replaced by 11 Hitachi Class 805s meaning AWC will have even less trains capable of using the route. The practise of bussing passengers up and down the M6 is well...

We used to that 60 odd years ago... https://www.railcar.co.uk/topic/tail-loads/?page=page-02

Coach A is definitely 52 seats. 13 rows of seats, 4 to a row = 52 seats. Plus the 2 tip up seats and the 2 wheelchairs.

Seating capacity is as follows... Coach A - 52 seats, 2 wheelchair spaces, 2 tip up seats, 1 toilet Coach B - 94 seats, 1 toilet Coach C - 94 seats Coach D - 94 seats, 1 toilet Coach E - 60 seats, 2 tip up seats, 1 toilet 394 seats 4 tip up seats 2 wheelchair spaces 4 toilets Coaches B, C...

A few dozen freight. Plus there are the odd passenger services that use the "old road" via Beighton to Sheffeld.

I've watched a fair few of the Lumo review videos and in most of them there is luggage in the doorways and the bike racks crammed full of luggage. For those on here who have travelled with Lumo is the lack of luggage space a big a problem as it appears on the YouTube videos? Using the bike...

A 9 car Lumo would, based on the current layout, have 770 seats. Do you reckon Lumo could fill them with enough passengers to pay for the extra leasing/access costs that a 9 car incurs? Some Lumo service use platforms 9/10 at Kings Cross (max 160 metre trains), and also double occupy platforms...

Back in Virgin Cross Country days, some of the Birmingham-Manchester-Scotland services got diverted from Bolton via Darwen to Blackburn, then Hellifield and Carlisle. Most services however were routed preston-Blackburn-Hellifield-Carlisle. I don't recall the Carnforth-Hellifield line ever being...

Some interesting links on that list... Edinburgh-Liverpool would have been hourly had the TPE service not been canned north of Newcastle, though I suspect that the list refers to WCML route. Leeds-Leicester. When National Express operated MML they ordered the 9 car 222s with a view to...

Not convinced that the Erewash Valley will be upgraded? Or not convinced that it form part of the route north for the Eastern leg instead of the current route via Derby?

1053 ex Edinburgh Lumo was 19 late from Newcastle, only lost 3 minutes en route to Kings Cross arriving 22 late. Considering the disruption it had a pretty decent run.

It's more than 1 tree... At least 4 separate trees down in the area.

1025 Kings Cross -Edinburgh Lumo is now back on the move. Hope the passengers enjoyed their 3 hours stop on the down fast at Peterborough!