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Probably just shortage of staff or for an operational reason. Happens sometimes.

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If the Liverpool to Norwich route was ever split (and I hope it never is) I often thought that extending the Leeds-Nottingham service to Norwich would at least continue a through service as far as Sheffield. The platform extension at Leeds will allow longer than 2-cars on the route soon too.

755s cover a daily diagram on the GEML and 720s cover the Stansted Express. Twenty units were never going to realistically cover it.

720s still reach Ely.

That was one of the original considerations when the station was constructed in the early 90s but nothing came of it.

Great Yarmouth had direct Summer Saturday services in the 70s and 80s. The Newcastle in particular was a load 14. For some reason Yarmouth was a popular destination for many NE generations. 1749111647 Off shore oil industry accounted for many NE/Scottish journeys.

Isn’t that where the planned western station entrance is going next to the goods avoiding line?

Where would you put bays arriving from the north end without closing the through freight avoiding line?

I cant remember the name of the establishment sorry. Did a bit of a crawl after ticking off the fairly new branch line. Caught the Clipper back to Embankment afterwards.

Berney Arms is simple. It doesn’t have any form of RR and the station is simply closed during engineering works etc. Brundall Gardens is served from a RR stop on Cucumber Lane approx a mile away.

That’s the trouble. It becomes an operational nightmare. Ely, flexible as it is, struggles at times for platform space.

£17 for two pints near Battersea Power Station station. Cheeky so and so tried to add a 10% service charge on top after HE said I’ll bring them to your table. No chance :lol:

I was referring to the last year or so so 2024/25.

It really is more than enough. We already regularly see 3 sometimes 4 passenger trains in each direction in certain hours during GEML blocks and footy. The ultimate plan is half hourly Cambridge-Norwich along with an hourly inter-regional which the signalling is more than able to cope with and...

You won’t see any uplift in signalling apart from the new section going in when Croxton gets upgraded from AHB to MCB-OD. That will hopefully help when GA are following a late running EMR on the down and has to wait outside Thetford to gain access to the platform. It is perfectly adequate apart...

Several call at Wymondham and Attleborough. The 15:48 ex-Norwich calls at Eccles Road & Harling Road and the first Nottingham-Norwich also stops at Brandon.

Both solid reasons why the route is not going to be split.

Yes, the schedules and available paths are very different on weekdays.

It’s like all our yesterdays. That used to be commonplace until the late 2000s when the Goblin route got upgraded.