HSTs on The Forth Bridge

[90019]

A bit late for this weekend, I know (I meant to post earlier in the week, but forgot), but does anyone know what time HSTs pass over the Forth bridge at the weekends?
Rough times are fine

Cheers

 

[yorkie]

NXEC has times for all weekends on its site. I'd say about 5 minutes south of INK.

 

[90019]

Yeah, I was gonna look there but couldn't think where they actually stopped.

Will have a look now

 

[DaveNewcastle]

Aberdeen services - Saturdays:-
Northbound 10:24, 15:15, 18:50
Southbound 10:05, 12:05, 17:05

Inverness services - Saturdays:-
Northbound 16:50
Southbound 10:55

 

[90019]

Thanks

I'd got the southbound ones about right

 

[me123]

There may also be XC HSTs, but that depends on what they're doing. According to 125group, the weekend diagrams vary with engineering work and so forth.

 

[90019]

There may also be XC HSTs, but that depends on what they're doing. According to 125group, the weekend diagrams vary with engineering work and so forth.

I wasn't aware XC went over the bridge at all :?

 

[me123]

Yes; see here. Just a few times a day though. One train a day to and from Aberdeen and another one starting/terminating at Dundee. There's also ECS to and from Dundee.

 

[90019]

Do we have any rough ideas of times?
I've had a quick look, but can't see anything.

 

[me123]

05:33 EDB-DEE passes at about 06:00 NB
18:08 EDB-ABD passes at about 18:20 NB
20:22 EDB-DEE passes at about 20:40 NB

07:35 DEE-PLY passes at about 08:40 SB
08:22 ABD-PNZ passes at about 10:35 SB
22:29 DEE-EDB passes at about 23:40 SB

There will also be ECS services, although I don't have times for them.

BTW, GNER Inverness services do not cross the Bridge; they run via Falkirk Grahamston and Stirling.

 

[90019]

05:33 EDB-DEE passes at about 06:00 NB
18:08 EDB-ABD passes at about 18:20 NB
20:22 EDB-DEE passes at about 20:40 NB

07:35 DEE-PLY passes at about 08:40 SB
08:22 ABD-PNZ passes at about 10:35 SB
22:29 DEE-EDB passes at about 23:40 SB

There will also be ECS services, although I don't have times for them.

BTW, GNER Inverness services do not cross the Bridge; they run via Falkirk Grahamston and Stirling.

Thanks for that, I might try and see the 18.20 one this afternoon

 

[me123]

The times are just approximate, based on the departure time from Inverkeithing, so I'd turn up a bit early just in case. Furthermore, as XC HSTs vary at weekends, you could well get a Voyager. Anyone with any information about the 09:25 ex Plymouth could confirm what it's running as. It runs as a Voyager weekdays, though.

 

[90019]

HST or Voyager's fine, NXEC is guaranteed HST, and I'm gonna go a bit further south than the bridges for the AXC at 18.20 and NXEC at 18.50. There's a really good little spot just by the end of the runway at Edinburgh Airport, and I think i'll film from the bridge there, get them disappearing off towards the bridge.
Hopefully get a plane in the footage if I'm lucky, but it's unlikely.

They come over the line very low.

 

[route:oxford]

BTW, GNER Inverness services do not cross the Bridge; they run via Falkirk Grahamston and Stirling.

NXEC services can be photographed crossing the Forth Bridge at Stirling...

 

[MCR247]

NXEC services can be photographed crossing the Forth Bridge at Stirling...

What?

 

[route:oxford]

What?

There are a pair of parallel railway bridges over the Forth at Stirling, the NXEC services cross the one to the left.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...2702,-3.934795&spn=0.000777,0.005493&t=h&z=18

 

[me123]

But that's not The Forth Bridge. That's a bridge over the River Forth. There's a big difference.

 

[djw1981]

but the title has a small t on the so could apply to either bridge across the Forth............

 

[90019]

but the title has a small t on the so could apply to either bridge across the Forth............

Happy now?

 

[route:oxford]

But that's not The Forth Bridge. That's a bridge over the River Forth. There's a big difference.

The First Forth Bridge being at Stirling ( 1848 ) ...

The Second being built alongside on the route to Dunfermline ( 1850 ) ...

Third being the Alloa Swing-Bridge (1885) ...

Fourth one being the one at Queensferry ( 1890 ) ...


(Researched very quickly, so please let me know if wrong!)

 

[DaveNewcastle]

. . . and THE Forth Bridge is THIS one.