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It doesn't matter if the odd vehicle has an engine out in passenger service. I think Voyagers can almost keep time on 3/5 although it would be taken out of traffic when suitable.

The engines would always be running regardless.

Never as far as I know. Definitely not in the last 50 years.

Ive often thought about taking a spin on a diversion over the years when I’ve had a decent PNB at Liverpool St but have always bottled out incase something goes wrong.

I’m glad everything i deal with on the railway is in miles and chains. oddly enough in exams I always write the safe distance from the running rail is 1.25m for 100mph or less yet safe distance from the OHL is 9ft :lol:

The latter was a classic and proud I got to drive it.

Don’t get me wrong I’d prefer the train every time but it has to be looked at logically. Back in the bad old days here in East Anglia the Felixstowe branch was regularly bustituted. It wasn’t anything against the good people of this Suffolk resort just that using RR buses vice the train on the...

Virgin would have liked all Voyagers to be six cars from what I recall but the then SRA wasn’t interested.

The bars and restaurants around Liverpool Street and Broadgate are now as busy on Thursday evenings as they are still on a Friday.

Its an easy option to use RR buses on that route and crew would come from Plymouth so just operational convenience.

Shouldn’t be an issue. Biggest problem is fuelling them at certain locations due to length and location of pumps.

Wasn’t that what they were going to be anyway and why they just missed out coach E?

At least the ECS (5D26) from this got a decent run. Also left Skipton 20L but clawed that back arriving Neville Hill 1E.

It seems busier than Fridays peak well before 2020. These had already got much quieter and had been going that way for five or more years previous. Yes we had departures at 17:50 and 18:10 then rather than just 18:00 but especially the latter of those two had really slacked off that was when it...

I worked the 18:00 down Norwich on Friday and considering that’s the quietest commuting day and it’s still a ‘peak’ service, we left Liverpool Street with a very healthy load indeed.

Touching distance.

Tell me about it. Some just can't seem to shake off that excuse. Been a lame reason for a couple of years now.

Wasn’t parts of it cut back from 100-90 as an economy measure. 1749899143 I’ve never heard anything above 100mph mentioned for EWR.

Very much so. I just laugh when I see that former Secretary of State for transport nowadays. Excuse me for not posting his name but he did have several :lol:

At least since the last lot left we no longer have to listen to the repetitive drivel about how they spent £16bn keeping the railways running during the pandemic as if it was somehow the employees fault and that they/we should be grateful and accept no pay increase. Just getting on with things...