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Looks like 1S41 will have the extra set out of Plymouth, detaching at Derby off 1V71 which isn't shown to detach but there seems to be a new 5E71 Derby-Central Rivers at the appropriate time.

Presumably something else out of Plymouth is strengthened - or one of the existing twin set workings  into Plymouth detaches at New St.

Because they had been working some journeys on the 63 ever since it was introduced - I thought it was on here I'd seen it, but can't find it now.

Unless things have changed Saturday work is part of the standard week, only Sunday is covered by overtime.

On the subject of WMR route knowledge the two trains booked to do Galton-Smethwick West are both diverted via Camp Hill in December - XC trains routed that way appear unchanged.

The Walsall line was not affected by the fire, Cable theft was the reason for no trains between Perry Barr and Walsall yesterday.

The fire was under the Stour Valley line and trains couldn't be diverted via Bescot due to the cable theft.

That was the point I was trying to make - the photo
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was not the cause of  the Stour Valley problem that the article was about , but the cause of the Walsall line block - I've never been quite clear wether the thieves burn off the insulation to get at the cable or accidentally set fire to it while cutting through it.

While the photo showing the fire is under the motorway just north of Bescot where Bescot Curve left the Walsall line does explain the lack of Walsall/Rugeley trains it is only peripherally connected to that newspaper article inasmuch as it prevented any attempt to run via Bescot - a point  I doubt any Birmingham Mail reporter would grasp.

Something of a long shot - 4O38 hauled by 70005 failed approaching Arley Tunnel yesterday and 4003 loco, 66520, sent to rescue it. For whatever reason the decision was taken to haul the train back and run it via Bescot rather than Solihull, but it got in some kind of trouble on the Sutton Park line and from maps appears to have been propelled as far as Ryecroft by  GBRf 4L68, where 66520 appears to have recovered sufficiently to get 4O03 to Bescot. 4O03 eventually went back to Lawley Street around 0100 this morning.
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This all from my armchair - I don't suppose anyone saw any of this?

But it doesn't seem to actually tell you anything - presumably the minutes are on-line somewhere but I can't find them.

YN57FWM on Stafford-Crewe Rail Replacement today via Stoke today - rather a contrast in presentation to YX61FYE of Eminence. Just a pity it left Stafford showing Stafford as the destination, as did JKT'S GO70 JKT. 

Author of the article in September Buses on end of Transpora seems to have come to the same conclusion with nowhere near the detail on Rhys Hand there is on Phillip Higgs.

No. I mean that it is only showing three tph through Snow Hill instead of four currently, only one an hour between Kidderminster and Worcester.

December timetable popped up on RTT overnight - Snow Hill line services only showing three tph off-peak, possibly indicating some increase from the existing four back toward the pre-covid six?

December times popped up overnight on RTT - Liverpool service back to half-hourly.

I assume they mean £10.00 per passenger per trip?