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They're not letting anyone into Euston. Marylebone rammed with people trying to get to Birmingham.

All those waiting trains have just been cancelled.

Going by RTT, the last Avanti that got away from Euston was the 1153 to Manchester. Everything later seems to be stuck. Not looking great.

I have few objections to the Stirling route for all Inverness services, it gives a lot more flexibility for changes if you're on an Edinburgh train and want to go to Glasgow, or vice versa. The only slight downside for me is that I've got no direct access to Edinburgh Gateway any more, but that...

To be fair I didn't notice that when I was on it last night. The only reason it didn't have an extended dwell at Stirling because it left Queen Street late and passed Larbert four late. Then by the time it got to Auchterarder it was mysteriously four early. No surprises that the 385 got to...

So would it not be better for the Glasgows to return to their old stopping pattern, the 1810ish ex Queen Street did Larbert-Stirling-Bridge of Allan-Dunblane-Gleneagles? Instead we have something that charges along and then waits for 20 mins, this has got to be the worst of all worlds. Long...

I use the HML a lot and timings north of Perth are pretty much unchanged since 2010. The frustration I'm experiencing at the moment is the significant slackening of the timetable generally south of Perth since Edinburgh to Inverness trains started running via Stirling post Covid. Take...

I would say only allow consumption of what's sold on board if they were remotely capable of providing any sort of onboard service. Mind you, I was on an Edinburgh to Inverness train today when I saw my very first Scotrail trolley since March 2020. Unfortunately the HST had been substituted for...

I gave up on them after they went over to all 180s, the vibration at speed is absolutely shocking, so I've no idea what they're service is like any more. If it's as bad as being made out in this thread then that's another reason to avoid them.

He wasn't wrong in a sense, August 2020 still had a full timetable and superb timekeeping and reliability with no pesky passengers getting in the way. It's only now, when people are trying to travel again, that we've wound up with the worst railway Scotland's ever had. Does anyone know if the...

Don't make me laugh on the alcohol ban. Every Highland Main Line evening train I've been on over the past month has had people drinking on it (perfectly quietly it has to be said, including some people knocking back Glenmorangie out of the bottle, I liked their style) and none of them have been...

To be fair to Scotrail, and I know it's difficult at the moment, in the past week I've become aware of more 5 coach sets in traffic. The service feels a little bit less wretched overall than it was a month ago so maybe we are starting to head in the right direction. Related to this, I came...

Transpennine are so unreliable now that I actively avoid them on any route that has an alternative operator. Before Covid I used to be on the Manchester Airport-Scotland services three or four times a month, I've been on two in total since May 2021. They might even be worse than Scotrail...

I think that I've posted this before in relation to Scottish internal sleepers of the era but this accident report from 1983 gives coach by coach detail on the makeup of the train involved in a derailment at Pitlochry. https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=1132

Sorry, this my fault for loose use of the word 'evening'. The incident I provided information on occurred at Waverley in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but affected those who had joined the train on Tuesday evening.

Just on the cancellation of the southbound Highlander at Edinburgh on Tuesday evening, I know someone who was travelling in the Inverness section. Locos were changed over as normal and just as the 92 took power there was a few yards of forward movement, what sounded like a loss of air, and a...

I've only started moving again with work again in the past week and my observation is that hotel rates are very reasonable but train fares aren't in any way reflecting supply and demand. Last week I was charged probably 50% more than pre Covid for advances on Avanti to find myself in a carriage...

This, and for looping northbound. At least once I've overtaken a freight at Dalwhinnie in this way.

The set, which had been stuck in Dalwhinnie siding for the past week, headed south to Haymarket depot earlier today. I happened to be driving up the A9 at Ballinluig as it crawled by. Near on five and a half hours to get from Dalwhinnie to Edinburgh...

I know that we're going off topic a bit here, but is it not the case that this crossover (now that we've established that it's facing) allows northbound freight to be looped at Dalwhinnie? I've been on an overtaking train there on at least one occasion, so I should've known that all along. If...