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It was pretty standard this morning, with the lack of clear and concise communications. Signal cable theft at Hitchin = passengers not having a clue when trains are going to arrive / be cancelled. One observation is the 0700 Welwyn Garden City - Sevenoaks was delayed because the driver was in...

Poor EMR. On the list because XC don’t manage any stations.

Where there similar problems with networkers, where a rule was put into place they couldn’t be coupled on curved platforms. I am sure 317s splitting in service was the excuse used for keeping the corridor connections closed towards the end of their life.

I think it is, I do recall something small was missing (I thought it was a clip) which the the vibration of train on its journey resulted in it parting. 1791722419 They did have problems with the doors, blowing open sounds really back for plug doors. When that kicked off they borrowed the unit...

I haven’t noticed that one yet on London - Paris. Gare-du-Nord has never being pleasant. The extra space is negated by the fact you need to take everything out again. Eurostar itself is constantly downgrading iteself, I see virgin are making a big deal about the food. However they won’t need to...

Absolutely, the vast majority of the ones in the UK that I used don’t. Hence why I was so surprised they insist in Paris now (it is a recent thing as well) It is really slowing things down as even regular travellers like myself don’t realise. We are putting phone in our laptop bags to make...

I do find Gare Du Nord worse in all respects. We should also remember it used to work fine, with more trains. The Scanning is really bad in Paris, very airline now as they make you take electrical equipment out your bag as well

We have had a few. I remember the Aberdeen - Kings Cross service splitting at Grantham in recent history

I look forward to seeing the product, Eurostar are just cutting everything back so they need a competitor. As others have said it will be interesting to see how the overcome the other problems. Space at St Pancras and the scanning, just like at airports can’t be influenced by the operator. The...

I don’t think anything of the 151 was moved forward. The 150s were really standard BREL body shells with respect to them looking the same as the 317, 318, 455 and 456s. (probably onwards to classes to the 322). Not sure If anything was taken onto the 156s (as they were also from the same...

The train has being at Welwyn Garden City in the sidings for a few days. I assume it was doing some testing. I have seen them swapping power cars the network rail yellow ones were put on instead of blue shabby ones with the train. It is very possible that something wasn’t connected properly at...

I remember 150001 showing up in Lincoln with different types in each bay. Not may people switched bays, just people like be. Not that you could evaluate well on a 45 minute journey. Indeed the 1st gen were low backed and very springy. Can’t recall if they were comfy. The units also rocked...

Wow - i missed that - odd they are not going to Peterborough. The Spalding - Peterborough section is one of the highest in terms of demand in the area.

This is an interesting one, it won’t be signalling now as unless someone can correct me, I think all the boxes are staffed now. If you look at the Franchise it is one of the many unmet commitments for Lincolnshire. 1. Hourly Lincoln - Grimsby (which is desperately needed) 2. Hourly Lincoln -...

I assume, BR must have decided to try and keep things cheap and ”no-body complained“ about the pacers. For some reason on the 150/1 units they decided to go high back seats matching many units getting delivered at the time such as the 317/3 and the 318s. However in the period they were build low...

It was just standard bus bench seats from what I remember. 150001 had lots of different types of seats from my memory (assume for BR to test passenger feedback) - I understand 150002 also had bench seats, by the time I first caught it it was converted to 154001 (renumbered later). The seats on...

Yes I do mean south, apologies, indeed not many trains stopping anywhere on the Royston Branch stop at North

The ability to change at Cambridge North for passengers travelling between the Hitchin Branch and Stansted Airport, Not sure if that would be counted as new traffic or abstraction. It was possible to change at Cambridge before it opened, however I would drive as the journey time was uncompetative .

I remember years ago discussion about a Cambridge - Leeds services which was to be used as a stopping services to enable an hourly services stopping everywhere between Peterborough and Doncaster. It was concluded it was impossible to path, As others have mentioned BR did operate the Cambridge -...

I am surprised how much quicker it is via Peterborough. That said you are going South first