Train timed to use Doncaster Platform(?) T

[mm333]

RTT has a ECS EC service from Newark to Doncaster tonight. Where or what is platform T? Is it T for the Thorne line?

The 1906 from Kings Cross to Lincoln was curtailed at Newark, then this train went forward (above) to Doncaster. The EC website is saying that the 2035 Kings Cross to Leeds will be delayed for 15 minutes at Doncaster for passengers transferring between trains, and the 2035 is then booked to leave Doncaster on platform one (which is unusual). If the ECS is going to sit anywhere near Doncaster, putting it on the Thorne line would make it easy to get into platform one if people were transferring onto it for onward connection to Leeds.

 

[ECML180]

Is the Thorne line electrified?

 

[Mugby]

Is the Thorne line electrified?

Only a short bit of it, not enough to accommodate a full train.

(You live in Donny and you don't know?)

 

[Crossover]

If it's an supposed curtailed Lincoln then surely it is a HST and wires won't matter?

 

[CallySleeper]

I want to say the through line but that's probably wrong.

 

[ECML180]

Only a short bit of it, not enough to accommodate a full train.

(You live in Donny and you don't know?)

I thought that would be the case, that's why I asked!

I didn't want to just say it wasn't in case there was a small bit electrified just beyond the station!
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If it's an supposed curtailed Lincoln then surely it is a HST and wires won't matter?

Agreed! But on real time trains it lists it as an electric locomotive, which in all honestly would be a good reason to give up the Lincoln train at Newark!

 

[David Barrett]

The signals provided with route indicators at Doncaster display the letter T to denote Thorne Line.

 

[mildertduck]

It could be "through"... there used to be one stopper every day which came up on the boards at Durham as "DFL" (Durham Fast Line). Always used the normal platform when it showed up, mind

 

[The Planner]

Sounds like the Thorne Slow line that it was meant to be routed to. DFL at Durham is more likely Down Fast Line, though I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone did name it with Durham in it.

 

[David Barrett]

Sounds like the Thorne Slow line that it was meant to be routed to. DFL at Durham is more likely Down Fast Line, though I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone did name it with Durham in it.

That sounds right; isn't that the short section between Marshgate and the connections to P1/3 adjacent to the dock?

 

[louis97]

I believe T stands for the 2 goods line around the back of the station. Its not the through lines as nothing else that goes straight through shows 'T'.

 

[The Planner]

That sounds right; isn't that the short section between Marshgate and the connections to P1/3 adjacent to the dock?

Yep, shown as TS in the appendix. The two goods lines are shown as G1 and G2.