I guess in theory there could be a scenario where the entire aberdeen coach is full of fort William passengers.
It's not a guarantee. If, for example, the coach seats 30 & it is 15 each booked for Aberdeen & Fort William on departure from Euston, then a walking group has booked 15 seats from Edinburgh to Fort William, there are no seats. Very unlikely I grant you, but possible.
1M16 then ran empty to Edinburgh, arriving at 2.50 this morning before joining with the Aberdeen Portion to form 1Z16, which left at 4.05 (163 late) , now passing Warrington BQ 138 late.
Hotel power rather than traction problem? Meaning that the train was not fit for passenger use until the stock was formed up with the Aberdeen and Fort William sections at Waverley. But it could proceed to Waverley under its own power. Passengers taxied there?
When I was based at Faslane I used to often use the sleeper to go hillwalking for the day from Garelochead. Although the service was reservation only there was no practical way to make a reservation. I always used to turn up on Spec and was never turned away even if I ended up sitting in the lounge. I think it was probably the last service to still issue handwritten paper tickets the last one I bought was about 7 years ago but they still might be doing it for all I know.
Those pesky 73s playing up again. Electrical fault with the loco.
Loss of train supply means that (eventually) you lose the train management system once the batteries drain. So, no problem with running empty, but you can’t run in passenger service in that condition. So better to get the passengers off at a suitable location and put them on a bus to Edinburgh while the stock goes empty to Edinburgh. Passengers can then re-join as the stock is then plugged into the Class 92.
I've seen CS tickets issued out of the catering till.
Is the seated coach (unlike every other UK train) not allowed standing passengers? If it is then why all the hoo-ha over reservations - any day passengers can stand if there aren't any seats left!
Pretty sure they don't allow standing.
Can I ask why people write "caped" instead of the much more accessible annd understandable "cancelled"? We're long past the days of telex machines charging per character! (And the forum rules discourage jargon as well.)
The ticket office at Ft. William have always been a good bunch in my experience.
Ah but remember - its a hotel on wheels isn't it
. So any seated accommodation beyond the lounge might have been rather reluctantly ordered.That doesn't provide any additional seated accommodation.
So it is! Maybe they could melt down one of the ferries rusting away on the Clyde to build more coaches?
A few months ago Scott on the 'Planes, Trains, Everything' YouTube channel described how he travelled from Fort William to Glasgow Queen St LL by CS after having had something of a struggle to make an online reservation:
It's not anymore. The mk5s are set up differently in that every coach has a parking brake. It is however needed as it has the "main" computer to control a rake.
I wonder if the Scottish government, since they are now running it as pointed out by @Bletchleyite , might find accepting day passengers within Scotland on the seated coach to be less of an annoyance than Servo did? Particularly if someone prompted one of the Green party MSPs to raise the issue since they are propping up the SNP government? It's not exactly environmentally friendly to discourage the use of empty seats!
I seem to remember that 6 is the maximum length for regular passenger (ones that call at the intermediate Staions) services Crianlarich to Fort William because of the length of the loops, platforms and their interaction with the RETB. In fact thinking of the layout at Garelochead it may well be the whole WHL.
