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The airlines do have surges of passengers arriving departing to certain destinations. Early afternoon seems to have lots of people from the West Coast of the USA for example, I notice a lot of East Asia flights are fairly early in the morning. Both outside traditional railway peaks. To me it is...

How long ahead of departure do they typically put trains platforms up? I just looked now on my mobile phone and the 12:33 Manchester via Wilmslow still hadn’t got a platform, but neither had anything else including the London Overground.

It Is amazing the disruption that the late running at Welwyn North does cause, in the peak you often see the “2Cxx” held to let faster trains go. Then at Welwyn Garden City the Moorgate gets let out ahead of it. When you couple this we the strange logic of stopping the “2Cxx” at Alexandra...

I am not going to dispute that, but if there is more demand for Wixams then the interchange between the Nottingham and Corby services they will move the stop.As you know the railway isn’t ran for the convenience of passengers it is ran to make the most money for the stakeholders.

I have say with a number of people that were heading to Stratford on the Elizabeth line to change to other services there. I definitely thing that 4tph could be justified between Stratford and Heathrow T5.(extending an existing service from Paddington of course) - Although I understand this...

I bet it isn’t much better now on a 150. As someone said upthread there used to be a Leeds.- Huddersfield- Sheffield - Lincoln service, suspect something only done by a track basher. But from memory most of the long distance pacer journeys themselves were routes where you are unlikely to go from...

Absolutely, I always ask the people at the local office recommendations about transport / hotels before I book the trip. People often forget about the tube to get from Heathow, but certain destinations in West London it will beat the HeX and Elizabeth line. (or be close enough that the premium...

I am sure EMR will adjust the service patterns according if they feel that they will get business out of it. Which could of course be at the expense of other stations on the route. I suspect if the demand exists the Corby services will certainly stop there. But if it makes more commercial...

Someone at my office did HeX to Paddington, then taxi to the office (near Liverpool Street). They were late to the meeting as a result. They were from the US - so were very surprised about the Elizabeth line as we all told said - “Well that will teach you to take HeX“. They won’t next time...

Depends if you mean booked traction, or covering. Mancheter - Cleethorpes would often see a pacer cover the 158s. “Any train is better then a cancelled train“

Would I be right in saying from London you can also get around it by buying from somewhere such as Finsbury part or the various London travel card zones?

It is actually a common problem on EMR now. Especially since the 153s are gone as many platforms are only 3 coaches long. The Skegness route is really missing the option of 2x 158s and SDO. (I think they need to use local door now)

Surely you should be able to if you know you can't use the train (because of cancellations) - anyway I guess it doesn't matter. I won't use them now anyway - they are as bad as the trianline now to me for poor business practices.

I actually refuse to use Seat frog now, The £3 usage fee was bad enough. But on one occasion I bid for a journey and won it before the auction had closed. (A day trip). The journey north was cancelled so it wasn’t worth me making the trip. LNER refunded the ticket ad the journey wasn’t made...

I don‘t travel on the 158s that often (the are not diagrammed into Lincolnshire but do come in) - But all the units I have had have had the USB sockets. I just assumed the only ones that were not fitted where the ones that were not reseated (ex-stagecoach SWT ones)

For interest is it. A lot of the areas EMR go through the signal isn’t the best, but of course their equipment could have multiple mobile operators. But Travelling between Newark and Lincoln for example a lot of the time the mobile networks are very weak. I suspect between Sheffield and...

I am sure the MML will get its share of passengers on certain flows such as London - Stoke / Crewe however there are many others large flows that MML probably doesn't make sense Would the West Midlands be better using Chiltern? Normally for Manchester I would go via Leeds in this situation...

Back in 2017 they thought they had enough units to do both :-)

Just looking at the current timetable, the Charing Cross - Maidstone service does actaully match up to a degree with the London - Cambridge services. Surely if they actually implement Maidstone - Cambridge that is some extra SE units to use elsewhere? (Along with reduce the 379 / 387...

It is very sad for the railway, but this kind of journey as other has said I would tend to change at Doncaster and use LNER. Timewise is about the same but sadly you can rely on Northern / TPE. Same with Edinburgh - Leeds, I always change at York to avoid XC. (To be fair going South is normally...