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#1
No - Trent Valley line is blocked today.
#2
It is in Real Time Trains but since I posted yesterday, has changed to CAN so either it was overlooked for next week, or perhaps it was intended/hoped to run it but in view of this past week's abysmal cancellation record they have thought better of it?
#3
I was wondering if it might be this Monday as the 17.05 Euston-Blackpool (or its ECS moves from and to Oxley) isn't showing cancelled next week, but if it is it seems to be going to be a very low key launch.
(Until now It has been cancelled, well in advance, every day since it appeared in the timetable)
#4
Thanks - I hadn't spotted the change in stopping patterns.
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Saturday service is in now - its actually 22.31, the 22.03 from Dorridge extended to give better spacing.
#5
June WMR times downloaded to RTT overnight - Shrewsbury services go half hourly, a semi-fast calling at Galton Bridge, Wolverhampton, Shifnal, Telford and Wellington and a slow train via Soho Road calling at Tame Bridge Parkway, "Service Stop Unadvertised" at Darlaston and Willenhall going north, but a "performance allowance" the other way, then all stations - commuters to the other wayside stations aren't going to be pleased as this applies all day so they lose their rush-hour additionals as well as longer journey times.
#7
General Discussion & Questions / Landslip Long Lawford
February 15, 2024, 11:06:08 AM
Completing work after last weekends land slip both tonight and tomorrow late night diversions via Stafford - as a result a 23.30 rail replacement all the way from Birmingham to London.
#8
730210 on Trent Valley test runs today, while 730206 noted at Wolverhamton en route to Loughborough behind 37510.
#9
Quote from: Wba_lad on January 26, 2024, 05:28:36 PMI've just seen 350 373 i think it was at tame bridge parkway and it's got a name badge on it now, vic hall, any ideas what this is for.
350375
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https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/about-us/news-desk/train-honour-watford-junction-legend-vic-hall
#10
730007  today - on the 12.48 from Wolves on departure from Smethwick Rolfe Street started to announce and display Perry Barr as the next stop!
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I'm guessing incorrect GPS location?
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At New St correctly showing Duddeston.
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Interesting screen display showing seating availability in each car.
#11
Empty unit ran through a landslip at Long Lawford this morning, up line expected to be blocked until at least Tuesday.
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Buses Coventry-Northampton.
#12
Interestingly the 06.18 from Wolves has a VAR schedule to use 5B instead of 4C - but only on Tuesday.
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Following the working through it appears to end at Soho, so is a different turn the rest of the week, or a different unit?
#13
172s are not cleared north of Galton Jcn.
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General Discussion & Questions / Re: Cross Country
February 01, 2024, 09:23:57 PM
Track Access Application has appeared for the Dec 2024 introduction of a Cardiff-Edinburgh service - an existing Cardiff-Nottingham train will become a 221 and attach at New Street to the 08.27 Plymouth-Edinburgh, while the return will be formed by the set currently detached off the 13.05 Edinburgh-Plymouth at Gloucester and running empty to Central Rivers.
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The hourly Reading-Newcastle service is planned to be re-instated in May 2025.
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The already announced addition of seven ex Avanti 221s will make this feasible.
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