Christmas special 2023 on Real Time Trains

[AndyPJG]

and Flightradar24's most viewed flight....
flightradar24.com

 

[infobleep]

There may be a lot of passengers at various stations needing this train to get home if the weather forecasts are correct. Is ticket acceptance in place?

I doubt. They will just tell passengers to do their own thing.

 

[peteb]

I wonder how long that journey would take my mere humans?

I was thinking the same, could it in theory be possible to follow this route to tick off every GB railway station??

 

[Trainguy34]

Just looked and it has an allocation on RTT - Picture below

Picture shows a Christmas Special formed of Rudolph the Red Nosed Powercar hauling a wagon with the Sleigh on top, 3 wagons of presents aswell a tender of coal and a large 70,000 Litre tanker of Mulled Wine. Also confusingly having an IET powercar on the rear.

 

[david1212]

Stranraer [STR] > Barrow-in-Furness [BIF] > Roose [ROO] > Salwick [SLW] is interesting routing.

Can anyone see a longer non-stop distance than Barrow-in-Furness [BIF] > Roose [ROO] ( excluding North Pole International [XNP] > Gillingham (Dorset) [GIL] & Weymouth [WEY] > North Pole International [XNP] )?

 

[Steve Harris]

Just looked and it has an allocation on RTT - Picture below

I see the timing load has been removed !! HoHoHo

 

[WAB]

Currently at platform 2, Wokingham... very disappointing to see needless re-platforming during a quiet period on the railway . ARS strikes again...?

 

[Bevan Price]

I wonder how long that journey would take my mere humans?

With stops in the order listed ?
Possibly until Christmas
(2024 or 2025)....

 

[DaventryRabbit]

Wonder if it will have any issues at Altnabreac?

 

[Trainfan2019]

Love the train allocation graphics this year. I look forward to seeing this train and route details each year. Been keeping an eye on real time trains the past week waiting for this to appear!

Currently showing as being at platform - North Pole. I've only just noticed at all the stations (I think) it only serves platform 1.

 

[duffield]

I wonder how long that journey would take my mere humans?

Google's Bard AI says visiting these stations on real trains would result in "Total travel time: Approximately 66-72 hours, equivalent to 2.75-3 days non-stop.". Its stated assumptions seem to involve trains being available as required rather than as per timetable (something like a special charter travelling 120mph, regardless of linespeed, non-stop on greens). Obviously that's nothing like what I meant. I emphasized it should use the ordinary timetable and it said seven days. Still sounds nothing like correct.

The Chat GPT AI said it was impossible to estimate how long the journey would take on real trains with any accuracy. I asked it to guess and it started talking about how many people were born every day!

 

[357]

The Christmas special is showing on various departure screens that use the RTT API:

Led Departure Board

Live Train times for all of the UK presented to look like real led departure boards

www.leddepartureboard.com

 

[Trainfan2019]

The Christmas special is showing on various departure screens that use the RTT API:

Led Departure Board

Live Train times for all of the UK presented to look like real led departure boards

www.leddepartureboard.com

Thanks for the link above. Looks great as a departure board view with horizontal scrolling destination places, until it speeds up!

 

[Class15]

Anyone know what's on the 1X01 North Pole International to North Pole International tonight? Couldn't see, it was passing me too quickly

This was in the TOPS requests thread.

I believe the train is being worked by Rudolph with the following locos DIT:

66587, 68006, 90021, 92029, 91111, 67024, 69005, 47830.

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[Trainguy34]

This was in the TOPS requests thread.

I believe the train is being worked by Rudolph with the following locos DIT:

66587, 68006, 90021, 92029, 91111, 67024, 69005, 47830.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Why those locos?

 

[infobleep]

Google's Bard AI says visiting these stations on real trains would result in "Total travel time: Approximately 66-72 hours, equivalent to 2.75-3 days non-stop.". Its stated assumptions seem to involve trains being available as required rather than as per timetable (something like a special charter travelling 120mph, regardless of linespeed, non-stop on greens). Obviously that's nothing like what I meant. I emphasized it should use the ordinary timetable and it said seven days. Still sounds nothing like correct.

The Chat GPT AI said it was impossible to estimate how long the journey would take on real trains with any accuracy. I asked it to guess and it started talking about how many people were born every day!

That is very funny.

 

[Western 52]

Love the train allocation graphics this year. I look forward to seeing this train and route details each year. Been keeping an eye on real time trains the past week waiting for this to appear!

Currently showing as being at platform - North Pole. I've only just noticed at all the stations (I think) it only serves platform 1.

Some of the stations don't actually have a platform 1, for example Shrewsbury.

 

[krus_aragon]

Some of the stations don't actually have a platform 1, for example Shrewsbury.

That's no issue for Santa: if he can magic his way into houses with no chimneys, there'll be a platform 1 appearing on-demand for him.

 

[Western 52]

That's no issue for Santa: if he can magic his way into houses with no chimneys, there'll be a platform 1 appearing on-demand for him.

Ah yes of course, I forgot the magic element in his job description!