My info comes from what we were told by a scotrail staff member at the ticket gate plus my unofficial evesdropping on a serco staff member who seemed to imply that the problem was one that had to be sorted by someone other than serco. Who knows what the true story is.
Indeed!
Reading this, and the other comment about sleeper cars being shunted onto the mallaig service at fort william, brings into light how stripped back the service now, and the rather pitiful failure to integrate it with connections. On arrival at fort william now, you are turfed out and have to wait for over two hours before the next train to mallaig - and once you get there, in the winter, it's another two hour wait for the ferry over to skye. There's no attempt to coordinate the train and ferry times. Last summer there were the complaints about Skye being overrun with tourist traffic. How about encouraging more people to come by public transport, instead of putting obstacles in their way.
Does the 67 now do the shunting at Inverness? Or is there still an 08 on the go? I was wondering to what extent Serco rely on other companies to get the carriages moved around. The conversation I overheard suggested that they were sitting around waiting for a problem to be fixed which they couldn't deal with themselves. The kind of thing that might not happen were the sleeper operation not a separate franchise.
The class 08 draws out the stock in the morning and takes into the opposite platform or the carriage servicing depot, not sure if the stock goes there now but was standard in scotrail days.
Never a dull moment is there.
I noticed on sunday night that the stock came in on a path showing on RTT from the "motorail siding"... the motorail siding as I used to know it (and would once upon a time watch the motorail wagons being shunted from here onto the front of the sleeper!) was alongside platform 1 but I don't think that exists any more?
Nope...! 4M92 is on the move now courtesy of the Thunderbird however there's a big queue behind it and 1S26 still hasn't left Euston 60+ mins after it was supposed to.
Its still used as a siding where the sleeper stock stables during the day as platform 1 is used by scotrail services during the day.
Sleepers not gone to plan last few days was hoping for 92043 on the southbound highlander last night for my second 92 for haulage and ended up with 92010 the only one ive had previously must keep the planners on there toes haha.
I believe you're correct to a large extent - in this photo from 1978 (not mine funnily enough!) the two motorail sidings on the left (with the motorail flats and vans in) have largely gone, as has the goods yard that the 37 is in: https://flic.kr/p/Efyztq
Always some challenge or other.
Not sure if it's just me but I can't see the attachments
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