Odd Virgin Trains service.

[Mugby]

Shown in the Virgin Trains all routes booklet is an odd service running 4th January to 8th February:

Saturdays, London Euston dep 1730, non stop to Warrington, terminating there 1914.

Is this correct? London to Warrington seems an odd working and there doesn't seem to be a balancing return journey.

 

[scotsman]

Shown in the Virgin Trains all routes booklet is an odd service running 4th January to 8th February:

Saturdays, London Euston dep 1730, non stop to Warrington, terminating there 1914.

Is this correct? London to Warrington seems an odd working and there doesn't seem to be a balancing return journey.

Yes, it's on RTT.

There's engineering work in this period on Sundays between Lancaster and Carlisle, so it looks like a positioning move in service utilising a Pendolino that's come out of a 'normal' booked service.

 

[Mugby]

How strange. It must be a very lightly loaded service!

 

[Philip Elliott]

No it is not a positioning move - it is 1S90 (17.30 Euston - Glasgow) cut back to Warrington (its booked first stop) because of engineering work between Warrington and Wigan. The new terminating point sees the headcode changed to a 'P'.

 

[Mugby]

Where does it go after terminating at Warrington?

Are buses laid on for people travelling north of there?

 

[dannypye9999]

Id have thought it would run to Wigan North Western just like the 19:30 and all other services from Euston on these dates.

 

[SprinterMan]

Here is the return working:

9G61 2040 Warrington Bank Quay to Birmingham New Street

Adam

 

[30907]

Id have thought it would run to Wigan North Western just like the 19:30 and all other services from Euston on these dates.

Passengers forward on 1643 EUS as far as Preston.