A London crew worked 1S25 up (well Down direction, but up) last night/this morning. I took a photo of a more impressive vestibule snow drift on S25 this morning but I never thought to send it to the BBC...
The Highland Chieftain HST yesterday looked very similar between the coaches. The snow we have been having is very light blowy stuff and very different to the huge dumps we had in the Highlands before Christmas. Perhaps that gets throught he gaps easier. The 170s and 158s seem to be sucking it up int heir wake completely covering the rear of the units as the guard showed us on the Aberdeen - Inverness run yesterday.
Cheers for the info.
Coach letters have definitely changed - J is now an Inverness section vehicle and, yes, J used to be the accessible First Class coach closest to the Inverness lounge in the days of First and the first year or so of Serco. It changed to B within the same configuration around 18 months ago. I'm not so sure about the Aberdeen section.
Whilst 1M16's timings on the WCML are a lot tighter than 1M11 on Sunday night there's always a 30 min "Engineering Allowance" for all the Sleeper services to allow for possible Single Line Working (SLW) between Carlisle and Carstairs if this is required for any works - it's why the services depart 30 mins earlier on a Sunday. However, the SLW rarely happens and so there's 30 mins that can usually be made up pretty easily.
Interesting reading, was fast asleep long before it left Edinburgh, woke up around 0530 fearing the worst as the train was at a stop but we were in Crewe!
It was, but judging by recent comments/reply on their Twitter I think the upgrade needed to the systems has been delayed...
Some system upgrades have happened and others not. Until the other day it was impossible to make or manage a Flexipass booking online - users were having to email CS to make reservations. That's been fixed now, but a cabin selector still isn't being provided.
