This is due to electrification works taking place Sunday-Thursday. The service from Perth to Edinburgh (as well as a few others) will take the Winchburgh chord after Dalmeny and reverse at Linlithgow.
There is no Portsmouth Harbour to London Bridge service
I'm trying to remember when it was finally withdrawn but for many years there was a Littlehampton to Arundel shuttle in the morning peak that connected to one of the peak arun valley trains. It then ran over the crossover to form a service to Chichester
Side ask - but I remember the good old days of London Bridge to Eastbourne, Littlehampton, Bognor, everywhere else in the peaks - does anyone have any old timetables which show these peak extras?
If that is the case, I'm surprised they even bothered in the first place. Unless it was simply they didn't know.
This makes sense now.
I saw one last week at Hastings on an Ore to Brighton service. That must also confuse some passengers.
There’ll be demand on the previous working in to Leven and the train has got to get back somehow. With tge diversions on, running ecs may mean it can use loops etc not signalled for use by passenger trains / sit somewhere for varying amounts of time on different days (subject to crew hours) which wouldn’t be ok if there were passengers on board.
Understood. I did wonder if the ECS service was using non-passenger lines.
There used to be.
The empties from Kirkcaldy to Haymarket do not use any non passenger lines (there aren't actually any in that area). It traverses the same route as the preceeding and following trains which are in service.
Potentially it could be a Leven or Perth Conductor, I've not seen any diagrams for December as yet but that would make the most sense to me.
The morning ones start at Norwood Junction off Selhurst Depot. Terminating at Norwood Junction southbound isn't so easy so they run on to Sutton to get them out of the way.
That’s the current situation, though, isn’t it?
Is that Forest Hill or a other station?
Yes, Forest Hill.
Good point. Forgot about the Coulsdon Towns not running during the peak. Did hear the '2Ts were returning' but just two LBGs to Suttons and those few as u say on the up that start at Norwood Junction AM isnt really pushing the boat out. Did expect more. There has been an ongoing need to give NXG to Anerley passengers a direct service to East Croydon again...
18m running time to LBG is pretty slow as well so a lot of padding in this schedule all round
Indeed, imagine it's to try and improve reliability
And Greater Cambridge is a major growth area that needs infrastructure provision. So fits the narrative on getting more homes built.
My guessing is the additional norwood junction to London Bridge service will probably run with 6 coaches as arrive at London Bridge, they then get used for the Beckenham Junction service
