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Enviro YX16ODG appears to be the first addition to cover ex-Arriva work - 90 according to bustimes, which has ODJ as 91, but I didn't see that.
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Ex Menzies Heathrow?

Both the Dorridge and Whitlocks End services were reduced to two trains an hour post Covid by deleting one of the three without changing the others, hence the gap. This May's timetable presumably implies there is no intention of going back to a combined ten minute service.
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Whether the reason for CrossCity not changing is because it is harder to re-jig the times through New Street or they expect to revert to six per hour in due course I have no idea.
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Obviously the cl.730 order predates the Covid cuts, which I presume will be permanent -  the reduction in the Euston-Northampton-Birmingham  services is presumably permanent as there were  track access amendments giving up paths.
I'm pretty sure at the time they said the Birmingham-Liverpool would be staying hourly eight-car rather than four car half-hourly because I remember wondering why they didn't have a TAA for that.
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Presumably the idea of the five car sets was twelve-car workings would become 2 x 5 and some eight car single fives - whatever the reduction in services presumably means some other 350s will now be surplus.

https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/service-disruptions/may-timetable-change-sunday-21-may-2023;
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https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/may23
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is what comes up, but there are short cuts www.lnr.uk/may23 and www.wmr.uk/may23 which is what the CIS screens advertise.
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An intersting change is that Lapworth gets an all day LM service - in the early dmu timetables it not only had an hourly service but also some extra trains turning back there but for many years only a peak service.  I wonder if it's deliberate, or just that whoever specified the timetable didn't realise?
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Has anyone had a close enough look at a 730/1 to see if they have any first class innards?
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I shall be interested to see how the five car working is handled on Euston-Crewe and Birmingham-Liverpool - wiki only refers to 350/2s going but obviously they must be replacing some others.

No they aren't - I thought they were when the new timetable first appeared but they aren't shown as such now.

Stagecoach have also registered the 84, including Crewe-Nantwich shorts
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 https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cheshire-bus-news-was-east-cheshire-bus-news.83619/page-89#post-6106464

Or is it the ticket machine that rejects it?

Duplicate post deleted - is there no straightforward delete method?

Where do you get 125mph from? HS2 is being built for a vast increase in speed and frequency

My point is that the existing service runs, or did pre-Covid, at 125mph and every twenty minutes - no other HS line has replaced services running at that speed or frequency, and few if any actually offer frequencies anything like that,  so any increase in traffic is likely to turn out complete fantasy .

There are no two ways about it - the whole misbegotten scheme should by dropped.
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Every other high speed line in the world has been built to permit a vast increase in speed and frequency  - and not from a twenty-minute service of 125 mph trains, so the original business case is fatally flawed.
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And that's before the combined effects of Covid and Avanti incompetence persuaded people they don't need to travel anyway.

Confirmed by the companies house website. Interestingly(?) one of the new directors appears to be a director of the Bluebell Railway.

I would guess that NX have their own database but Diamond take their information from the PTE one?

Workings are posted on

https://partimespotter.wordpress.com

Running again this year but between Moor Street and Dorridge - Wensleydale version has snow making machines - presumably these don't?
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According to RTT they ran on Friday although didn't appear to be on VT website . Yesterday they were in RTT but appear to have not run.

And just how do you think any other builder could get vehicles designed, built and passed for service any quicker?

Surely they will be charged overnight and unaffected?