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I noticed that 1A61 the 0832 Sunderland to Kings Cross is formed of both 180112 and 180114 this morning, does anyone know why these occasional 10 car class 180 workings operate, from previous workings it doesn't appear to be stock movement as both units usually work back north still coupled?

Is anyone able to shed light on why GC has run a 10 car formation on the Sunderland route for one return journey each Sunday so far this month?

Now I know open access operators are looked down upon here, but GC really are taking the mick. Yesterday Tuesday 26th May, the 1627 Bradford departure from King's Cross was terminated at Doncaster and the passengers left to find their way back to the West Riding route destinations. Then the...

Looking at Real Time Trains for today, it appears that Grand Central (GC) have given up most of their paths from York to Sunderland and return, in favour of diverted LNER Anglo Scottish services. Are they required to do this, or is this some sort of quid pro quo deal between GC and LNER, with...

This morning on the first day of the new timetable GC has both the first train from Sunderland to Kings Cross and the second train from Bradford Interchange to Kings Cross, plus their return journeys, cancelled due to train crew problems according to Real Time Trains. Not a good start...could...

Having looked at the new times on GC's website, it seems that the previously proposed stop at Seaham on the Durham Coast route hasn't been implemented yet. Otherwise mostly just minor timing changes.

An unusual working from Hartlepool to Newcastle via Eaglescliffe and Darlington non stop, scheduled to depart Hartlepool at 0910 occurred this morning. Real Time Trains has it as a passenger working, but was it? I believe problems in the Seaham area caused this unusual working.

Just recently there have been a significant amount of very disruptive and major signal failures in different areas of the network. AFAIK most of the outages are in areas with recent modern signalling installations, which sets me wondering about the vulnerability of digital and other modern...

As the title says, on top of the cancellation of the first Sunderland to Kings Cross service and it's return working back to Sunderland today, there appears to have been a problem between Northallerton and Eaglescliffe which has closed the line in both directions. From what I can see on RTT one...

Hardly a day passes without one or more delays, failures or cancellations affecting GCs 180 fleet, just how do they expect to keep operating until their new stock is operational? Take 180101 as an example, yesterday I travelled on it working the 1427 Kings Cross to Sunderland service. The unit...

Well this morning's Grand Central shenanigans won't have encouraged some people to use their West Riding services again. For context, yesterday (Sunday) afternoon unit 180103 operating the last of the special GC service trains from Peterborough to Sunderland/Tyne Yard, suffered problems in the...

I was waiting at York a little after 1000 hrs to board 1N90 the 0826 King's Cross to Sunderland, it was showing as delayed, then cancelled. I managed to complete my journey via Darlington and Thornaby. Later from my searches online 1N90 appears to have finally arriving at Peterborough some 210...

Currently travelling on a GC service northbound which left Kings Cross 27 late due to the inbound train being 63 late following ECML delays this morning. Signal regulation in the York area pushed the delay to currently 37 minutes. I got to wondering if, when the ECML signalling is fully...

Does anyone know the actual problem that has caused multiple cancellations and service diversions for Northern, Grand Central and Transpennine trains virtually all day today please?

Just how much longer are the 180s going to be allowed to stagger along? Grand Central 180106 on 1n94 tonight left Kings Cross 14 late heading North and has steadily lost time, now over an hour late and not even at York yet, if it gets terminated there as had happened before that stuffs the...

Can anyone tell me what caused 2W67 to sit at Stockton for nearly an hour this evening please?

1A60 the 0924 from Sunderland to King's Cross appears to have had an interesting run this morning. Due to a blockage in the Stockton area it seems to have run to time as far as Hartlepool, reversed there and run back to Sunderland and the Newcastle area then down the ECML to Northallerton...

Is this getting worse again? I notice that 180107 lost around 20 minutes in the Grantham area last night whilst working the 1927 Kings Cross to Sunderland. One of several such instances on the ECML over recent weeks, is it the units themselves causing delays or signalling/pathing issues.

The reinstated new platform 3 came into use yesterday, coinciding with some slight delays between Hartlepool and Seaton Carew for services leaving from it. This morning GC's 1A61 appears to have lost 30+ minutes at Hartlepool in platform 3...is there a problem with points or signals after...

Just wondering what the delay after a right time start was caused by, around 50 late at the moment?