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London Liverpool Street, Liverpool Lime Street, Leeds, Birmingham New Street, London St.Pancras & London Waterloo all have Wetherspoons on site along with Aberystwyth & Cannon Street which were earlier mentioned. Wymondham has the Station Bistro on the down platform.

But do people walk away? All stations on the route saw decent growth in the last financial year.

I was looking at w/c Monday 13th although I’m hoping that’s not half term now as that’ll put me off too!!

Plenty of 745/1s are used on Norwich-Liverpool St services. As for 720s neither Norwich or Ipswich drivers sign them. Colchester (GE) drivers are not permitted to sign the Norwich route north of Haughley Jcn so they cannot be used which only leaves Liverpool St (AR) drivers. It has been stated...

Good call. Cheers ta! 1768643175 Timetable looks good again and it’s all week :D Puts me off if having to go at weekends.

Always the same with the minority in life spoiling it for the majority :rolleyes:

Yes I was just thinking the same thing. Looking at booking hotels as fancy doing it again. Just can’t find out confirmed dates. Any help gratefully appreciated.

Would be good if they do extend to Blackpool North in passenger service. Perhaps they are just hedging their bets as will if not just trip there ECS from Preston for servicing.

It certainly will and the new signalling will improve the flexibility too!

Windows were so clean on my original unit but not on the one we were transferred to after it was declared a failure sadly. First world problems I know and done the S&C so many times before that it was no big deal.

Thank you. Yes I was still at school when the first one happened then 16 years into my career with the second. I suppose I didn’t understand so much and was worried with the flexible rostering dispute as lived in a pub opposite a station. It affected our business too but was sad to see trains...

Until July last year I had paid 48 pence each month to what was known as the BRSA. Just like many of my colleagues i have no idea where it was going. Was deducted from my payslip throughout my career which started in September 1984. I have used many of them over the years but they became less...

The Stranraer suggestion is confusing me. It seems a total lost cause. Very indirect routing and no longer serves as a ferry port. In fact it only handled a paltry 30,196 entries/exits in the 2024/25 financial year.

Oh cheers mate. It’s just being a passion and a career for me its quite sobering when the rug gets pulled away. Certainly made me think and take stock.

Three events stick in my mind. First was the Flexible Rostering dispute in 1982. Only time I have ever known serious threats to shut much if not all the network down. Second was following the Hatfield accident in 2000. I know Clapham was terrible but it was the sheer meltdown that went on for...

On top of the checks made on the Avanti diverter they were checked at the ticket gates Blackpool North, on the 09:19 Northern Leeds bound service, on the footbridge at Preston (regular revenue swoop) on the Carlisle-Newcastle Tyne Valley Northern service (she didn’t stop) and again through the...

From what I witnessed it seemed around 20-30% were on a day out sightseeing/sleeping with plenty of suitcases and large bags. Several were working on laptops too. Full ticket checks were made including some extra customer service to help those who should have had reserved seats in 1st class on...

I think most of this needs to be in the Speculative Discussion section ;)

That’s something I never understand. I used the diversion on Tuesday and those close by were doing the journey purely for the S&C scenery yet like you for chunks of the journey, even over Ribblehead Viaduct, they were sound asleep.

Certainly not. This May 26 TT is going to be pushing the fleet already and you are stirring up a hornets nest breaking up direct Cambridge to West Midlands services.