Which means you need an additional shunt at Edinburgh to put it on the back and an extra loco to be leased as well. So much for saving costs!
If it's running late from Edinburgh the preferred option to catch up time is E&G via Falkirk High to Cowlairs east junction then Maryhill line to Dalmuir to resume normal route north.
Thank you. A useful resource bookmarked for the future
Daily Mail at their best yet again. Don't really see the point here?
Caledonian Sleeper review: Bed compartment vs the seat option
'Bringing a touch of the extraordinary to travel between London and Scotland.' That's the billing for the Caledonian Sleeper. Hype? Find out by watching a new video by The Points Guy UK.www.dailymail.co.uk
For the moderators it is a comparison between a cheap and expesive journey from Aberdeen to London but I've never ever seen a £73 fare ever.
www.brfares.com
Nothing on Caledonian Sleepers’ feed. Is something cancelled somewhere?
1M11 is starting from Edinburgh I believe, presumably the ticket acceptance is to allow Glasgow passengers to change at Stirling for 1M16? Seems like a very long way for a shortcut though.
If the Glasgow Lowland service is starting from Edinburgh then this would connect into the Highland service at Stirling for those passengers unable to leave Glasgow earlier to get through to Edinburgh.
It allows passengers to depart Glasgow an hour later (closer to the normal Lowland departure time) than if travelling via Edinburgh.
It's explained upthread that when there's limited spare 73/9s capacity - e.g. due to maintenance requirements - a 66 goes on the front as the service can't run without 73s being available (as only the 73/9s and the 92s can couple to the stock).
It is plated, I believe, and served in the lounge car only. The ingredients are very probably prepacked (as I believe all the hot meals are). From the ones I saw the other day, it looked like sausage, bacon, an omelette, a tattie scone, a tomato and some mushrooms. Probably not as good as the full Scottish breakfast which you would get in a cafe (if you’re doing the Fort William route you’ll probably get a better and bigger one in Morrisons), but decent enough.
This was in Mark 3 sleeper days. We wanted to be as green as possible, without taking two extra days for the round trip. Train/ship all the way would take too long. Flight all the way wouldn't have saved any days - just meant leaving after work instead of at crack of dawn next morning. (And straight back to work off the train - at the time my office was three stops from Euston)
Using 66s adds a complication to the shunts.
As well as the reasons outlined in the two posts above, they'll want a common fleet and pool of refurbished 73s for the Caledonian Sleeper. With HS2 work ramping up shortly, GBRf will also want to keep every 66 possible on it's core freight work.
Earlier this year (June) my wife and I flew from Edinburgh to Kirkwall
The sleeper isn't operated by ScotRail, its Serco Caledonian Sleeper Ltd - a separate company not connected to ScotRail at all.
I know, hence “pulled by Transport Scotland” they’re both funded out of the same limited pot of government cash.
But why would a service that is running to capacity most nights be cancelled? There is clearly a need to run the service, weather or not it actually makes a profit
Because there's a finite amount of money. Governments have to spend it to benefit the most, not a few on a luxury experience. Hard choices have to be made when money is tight.
There's a demand for it, might not be a need. However, if the majority of people using it are tourists then the overall economic contribution might well be positive.
