Makes sense, the Aberdeen portion is lighter during the summer months, plus the gradients are generally less taxing.
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Reported elsewhere that a carriage had to be shunted out of the Fort William portion.
There was definitely a single coach in the siding against the wall at Edinburgh when I passed through this afternoon.
The down Lowlander is showing delayed at Euston
Ecs for lowland currently stuck outside Euston whilst platform 1 is still occupied by 1S25 the Highlander.
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1S25 now on the move roughly 110 minutes late from Euston
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norbitonflyer
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RTT shows the Highlander finally depaerted 111 minutes late at 2306. Empty stock for Lowlander just arrived in platform 1, having been sitting oputside euston for nearly two hours. I imagine some of its passengers have been wanting to get to bed for quite a while now, especially those in the classic beds who don't get to use the lounge and will have been queuing in the cold at the entrance to Platform 1 since before 10pm
1s25 now at a stand in the vicinity of Harrow and Wealdstone so it looks like its going to be a long slow night on the Highlander
norbitonflyer
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All portions over 2 hours late. Inverness and Aberdeen portions are both near Markinch as the Inverness is diverted via the Forth Bridge this morning
tram21
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Is the Fort William cancelled and if so why?
Fort William portion is still going. It (finally) departed Edinburgh 0736, 166 late, and has been rerouted via Falkirk which should make up some time. However it is load 6 with a solo 73, which is certainly less than the preferred traction!
92010, which brought the Highlander north from Euston to Edinburgh, is currently taking a couple of day coaches back to Polmadie, not expected to arrive until 0837. This loco is required to drag the Glasgow portion back out of Central so that move will be delayed, blocking platform 1. This also happened earlier in the week resulting in cancellation of an Avanti service.
No, it's running
With respect, that's still 30% of their services running over 2 hours late this morning.
What I do absolutely give CS full credit for is that they appear to battle on far longer than other operators before they throw in the towel: They've carried on with the heavily delayed services this morning rather than dump their passengers onto ScotRail from Edinburgh. Equally it is far from unknown for CS to keep going when adverse weather has been forecast and other operators have blanket cancelled everything. Plus of course they continue to have well developed contingencies for ECML running when the WCML has planned closures.
Slightly interesting pathing decision in that this morning's heavily delayed Fort William portion is running just in front of the ScotRail 0821 to Oban and Fort William, which may well trigger knock-on delays to the West Highland Line for much of today.
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Not to mention the Down Lowlander left 28 minutes late. Yes it made up the time, but still an inconvenience for the passengers waiting at Euston who wanted to get to sleep.
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70% on time performance is of note, just not in the way you seem to think
70% on one bad day. In all honesty, noting that the CS-commentators pile onto any delay, the days where there are no comments - of which they have been many in the last few weeks alone - are indicative that the service is pretty good. Which marries up with the TOC stats of course.
I do wonder why there is such a vocal minority on the forum that love to hate the CS? I think the service is fantastic and great value personally. For me it is time efficiency of the service, the reliability (I have been delayed many, many more times on flights than on the CS), the fact it takes me as good as door to door and is cheaper than BA Business Class with less hassle if you factor in airport travel. I can absolutely see why it doesn't work for many - but then why take such an interest in the thread?
I don't agree that commenters hate the service. Like me, they are probably interested in the whys and wherefores. It's not news when services run like clockwork.
Fair, but if “not news” means in effect “ignored for purposes of perception”, then there’s a problem
If it was beer I'd be demanding a top up!
Exactly this. Ultimately this is a discussion forum and it is right and proper there is open debate - but some of the criticisms levelled against CS in this thread are ridiculous at times. The scale of the complaining is out of all proportion to the standard of the service. This said, I am not sure there is much that can be done. As a premium service more people comment on it than will be regular users of it - and that always attracts weighted negatives.
The statistics are flawed poorly in CSs favour because they have only a handful of journeys each day. LNER for example cancelled 5 trips on Thursday for example, wasn't a thread about that, but just 1 or 2 cancellations for CS and its brought up.