Recent content by louis97

Except it isn't a different coach on a 4-car Voyager, it is now a handful of seats in Coach D (and I think 2 seats in Coach C)

The stop markers are pretty much back to back for an 8 car 387 and a 2/3 DMU. There are some trains booked 4 car 158s, these are booked other platforms or not to share. This train I suspect was either booked a 4 car and an oversight on the platform or it was an overform on the day.

It is booked one, 0709 Brighton to Southampton is also booked one. 1717401885 It attaches to 1N61 (2020 ex Southampton) and forms the 2240 to Havant.

There is a signal right before it starts however, a non-stop train could therefore approach it at almost double(?) the speed it could currently. It is possible that the sighting of that signal has a derogation due to the presence of the 30mph speed restriction. Spacing of the signals isn't...

The higher the line speed the further away the signals need to be visible from. So if the signals are not visible from far enough away for the higher line speed in current position, they will need to be moved before the line speed can be increased.

Most likely this - https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G24849/2024-05-01/detailed#allox_id=0 It was on diversion and at present RTT does not report on this.

222007 was never a 7 car. For those 9 units to become 5 cars, 1 coach came out of 222001-222006 and 3 coaches came out of 222007 which became a 5 car as a result.

It doesn't always work out like that though, often it can be let go and held in the loop at Breadsall for the Sheffield to overtake.

For that particular train, the train before - the 0548 from Glasgow to London was cancelled.

Pretty much, on a 6 car the coach letters don't change, so basically reservations are always in the front set in the direction of travel. Obviously on a 3-car you need to swap the letters.

On a 185, reservations are A, B and C going Westbound, E, F and G going Eastbound. So a reservation in Coach E isn't an indication that the train is booked a 6 car.

Sometimes you have no choice, but avoiding it is not a bad thing. I don't think London Terminals are a fair comparison here, a good chunk of London termini are served by one main route. New Street is serving a number which diverge there so avoiding interworking serves more benefit here. Think...

There is however it isn't designed to allow for making up small delays on every section of line. 1713795459 This changes in the June timetable with longer turnarounds at New Street with shorter turnarounds at Shrewsbury. Issue with interworking is you risk spreading delay to route otherwise...

Am only going on the data on RTT, although it is certainly possible that quick station approaches could have helped with those station dwell times (something RTT won't nessessarly give a true impression of). I think the size of some of the workstations these days combined with the lack of proper...

14 minutes is very good, however nearly all of it was down to allowances, SRTs which are inflated (which is not the norm), and faster than booked dwell times. So it isn't that impressive, nor what I would describe as being able to "make up" time in the way I think was being suggested. Yes for...