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Post by MoEnviro on Oct 1, 2018 15:46:36 GMT
I see that Richard Clinnick of Rail Magazine has reported that the first class 717 in passenger service ran this morning from Gordon Hill. That's pretty good going all things considered and in very marked contrast to the shambles that is Bombardier getting new trains turning a wheel never mind actually entering service. Not sure if it’s related, but there was disruption through Finsbury Park towards Moorgate this morning. Did the 717 breakdown??
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Post by ADH45258 on Oct 1, 2018 16:20:24 GMT
When will the Luton to Gillingham services resume? I think these are currently only going as far as Kentish Town?
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Post by TA1 on Oct 1, 2018 20:37:41 GMT
I see that Richard Clinnick of Rail Magazine has reported that the first class 717 in passenger service ran this morning from Gordon Hill. That's pretty good going all things considered and in very marked contrast to the shambles that is Bombardier getting new trains turning a wheel never mind actually entering service. Not sure if it’s related, but there was disruption through Finsbury Park towards Moorgate this morning. Did the 717 breakdown?? No 717 was out in service today, a Track Circuit failure occurred at Essex Road on the Up Northern City Line, because of the long gap between signals from Essex Road & Old Street and because there are different procedures on the Northern City Line, the delays where compounded by trains passing the failed signal at danger at 3mph and trains stacking up whilst one train remained in the section at one time. 007 has been the prominent unit testing and entering service on Friday as 2G92 1035 Moorgate to Gordon Hill, the train arrived in/out of Moorgate late as a result of a points failure at Hornsey Depot I believe, the service was meant to run to an amended calling pattern after departing Finsbury Park - calling at ALEXANDRA PALACE, PALMERS GREEN, WINCHMORE HILL, ENFIELD CHASE AND GORDON HILL. - Although the plan was scrapped and it ran non-stop between Moorgate and Gordon hill, only setting down at Drayton Park to change from DC > AC, looking forward to driving them in the new year.
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Post by 700101 on Oct 2, 2018 3:48:52 GMT
When will the Luton to Gillingham services resume? I think these are currently only going as far as Kentish Town? Weekdays are still going to/from Luton, only weekends they are terminating at Kentish Town, Saturday services will soon resume running to Luton while Sunday’s will remain terminating at Kentish Town
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Post by Dillon95 on Oct 7, 2018 7:34:05 GMT
When will the Luton to Gillingham services resume? I think these are currently only going as far as Kentish Town? Weekdays are still going to/from Luton, only weekends they are terminating at Kentish Town, Saturday services will soon resume running to Luton while Sunday’s will remain terminating at Kentish Town I find it strange that these services go past Erith.
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Post by galwhv69 on Oct 8, 2018 18:51:42 GMT
This is seriously taking the flipping p*ss!
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Post by ibus246 on Oct 8, 2018 19:00:05 GMT
This is seriously taking the flipping p*ss! You should remember that the general public have the tendency to exaggerate situations as well as having “creative imagination” - no one knows the full side of the story so shouldn’t be taken at face value. Also note it’s someone else complaining who, probably, wasn’t at the incident. I’m in no way bias in favour of GTR but history tells me there is always two sides to this type of story.
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Post by galwhv69 on Oct 8, 2018 19:10:43 GMT
This is seriously taking the flipping p*ss! You should remember that the general public have the tendency to exaggerate situations as well as having “creative imagination” - no one knows the full side of the story so shouldn’t be taken at face value. Also note it’s someone else complaining who, probably, wasn’t at the incident. I’m in no way bias in favour of GTR but history tells me there is always two sides to this type of story. I agree,I wasn't there either but I am putting it here based on the tweet
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Post by sid on Oct 8, 2018 19:11:51 GMT
This is seriously taking the flipping p*ss! You should remember that the general public have the tendency to exaggerate situations as well as having “creative imagination” - no one knows the full side of the story so shouldn’t be taken at face value. Also note it’s someone else complaining who, probably, wasn’t at the incident. I’m in no way bias in favour of GTR but history tells me there is always two sides to this type of story. Exactly and I'd rather hear GTR's side of the story before jumping to conclusions, if the train really was that packed it would be impossible to do a ticket check. And I wonder why this persons son didn't post himself?
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Post by 700101 on Oct 26, 2018 12:37:56 GMT
For Decembers timetable change;
From Sunday 9 December we are going to introduce 202 additional weekday services across Thameslink and Great Northern – 170 off peak and 32 in the peak. This will increase the overall GTR timetable to 3600 trains every weekday.
Peak services boosted with off peak services gaining most benefits
The other changes are:
170 off peak services: Across all routes; mainly Catford loop, Great Northern metro
Letchworth: Additional calls on 9 Cambridge fast services after 1900 from Kings Cross
Harpenden: One additional train in each peak (as previously promised) plus one additional train stopping departing St Pancras at 1851*
On Southern East Coastway Marshlink: Morning peak timetable changes to improve connections at Ashford International and St Leonards Warrior Square with Southeastern trains
*Harpenden will probably still be annoyed
Weekend services will stay the same as now
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Post by ServerKing on Oct 29, 2018 12:07:42 GMT
You should remember that the general public have the tendency to exaggerate situations as well as having “creative imagination” - no one knows the full side of the story so shouldn’t be taken at face value. Also note it’s someone else complaining who, probably, wasn’t at the incident. I’m in no way bias in favour of GTR but history tells me there is always two sides to this type of story. Exactly and I'd rather hear GTR's side of the story before jumping to conclusions, if the train really was that packed it would be impossible to do a ticket check. And I wonder why this persons son didn't post himself? Train operators will fine a non first class ticket holder even for exhaling in a first class section, let alone sitting down in any portion including the floor Years ago a GA Ticket Inspector tried to nick me for reading a Metro whilst standing in the vestibule but not close enough to the Standard Class section I am more curious as to seeing if Failing Grayling will actually grow a pair and strip GTR of the Franchise as he has allegedly threatened, though that's a lot of railway to take back into public hands. GWR (Gets Worse Regularly) seem to be struggling like their South West counterparts too. Are they stealing a Labour Manifesto promise and slowly re-nationalising the railway bit by bit?
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Post by snoggle on Oct 29, 2018 20:49:31 GMT
I am more curious as to seeing if Failing Grayling will actually grow a pair and strip GTR of the Franchise as he has allegedly threatened, though that's a lot of railway to take back into public hands. GWR (Gets Worse Regularly) seem to be struggling like their South West counterparts too. Are they stealing a Labour Manifesto promise and slowly re-nationalising the railway bit by bit? GTR will not be taken off the Thameslink/Southern/GN franchise. Firstly who on earth would take it on? Secondly it would cost more plus the abject dislike of nationalisation by Grayling. He had no choice with VTEC as the parent company funds were exhausted and politically passing it to DOR was the lesser of two evils even for Grayling. He'd never had lived down keeping Stagecoach and Virgin running it on a management contract basis. Thirdly I don't think the DfT could handle yet another franchising debacle. For all the nightmares we are past the most dire days on Thameslink although performance is still far from good. Southern seems to be running OK. Great Northern remains in something of a mess. I'm not a Govia "fan boy" but I don't see what will be served from getting rid of them. The DfT have emerging problems on Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, Trans Pennine and GWR. All of those franchises are either in financial trouble / industrial relations trouble / new train delivery trouble / network rail inflicted trouble with lots more to come on each franchise. LNER have delayed the IEP introduction due to signal interference issues. DfT also have to somehow get South Eastern's new franchise off the stocks and working by April next year. And of top of the Grayling is having his "rail review" for more half ar*ed / half witted ideas to "improve" the structure of the railway. In consequence Cross Country's refranchising has been delayed indefinitely leading to a lot of complaints that it cannot survive with its existing rolling stock fleet because there is too little capacity. And not forgetting the refranchising of East Midlands and the need to get a load of new bi-modes bought and into service ASAP. PS Grayling actually hates railways which is why he is deliberately descoping and delaying the Oxford - Cambridge rail link and instead spending three and half times the rail link budget on a parallel connector expressway road. The man is an utterly liability and is completely the wrong person to be in charge of such an important department of state. We will be living with his mistakes for the next 30-40 years.
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Post by ServerKing on Oct 30, 2018 2:07:03 GMT
I am more curious as to seeing if Failing Grayling will actually grow a pair and strip GTR of the Franchise as he has allegedly threatened, though that's a lot of railway to take back into public hands. GWR (Gets Worse Regularly) seem to be struggling like their South West counterparts too. Are they stealing a Labour Manifesto promise and slowly re-nationalising the railway bit by bit? GTR will not be taken off the Thameslink/Southern/GN franchise. Firstly who on earth would take it on? Secondly it would cost more plus the abject dislike of nationalisation by Grayling. He had no choice with VTEC as the parent company funds were exhausted and politically passing it to DOR was the lesser of two evils even for Grayling. He'd never had lived down keeping Stagecoach and Virgin running it on a management contract basis. Thirdly I don't think the DfT could handle yet another franchising debacle. For all the nightmares we are past the most dire days on Thameslink although performance is still far from good. Southern seems to be running OK. Great Northern remains in something of a mess. I'm not a Govia "fan boy" but I don't see what will be served from getting rid of them. The DfT have emerging problems on Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, Trans Pennine and GWR. All of those franchises are either in financial trouble / industrial relations trouble / new train delivery trouble / network rail inflicted trouble with lots more to come on each franchise. LNER have delayed the IEP introduction due to signal interference issues. DfT also have to somehow get South Eastern's new franchise off the stocks and working by April next year. And of top of the Grayling is having his "rail review" for more half ar*ed / half witted ideas to "improve" the structure of the railway. In consequence Cross Country's refranchising has been delayed indefinitely leading to a lot of complaints that it cannot survive with its existing rolling stock fleet because there is too little capacity. And not forgetting the refranchising of East Midlands and the need to get a load of new bi-modes bought and into service ASAP. PS Grayling actually hates railways which is why he is deliberately descoping and delaying the Oxford - Cambridge rail link and instead spending three and half times the rail link budget on a parallel connector expressway road. The man is an utterly liability and is completely the wrong person to be in charge of such an important department of state. We will be living with his mistakes for the next 30-40 years. It's a sad state of affairs... though I read somewhere that the unions are only kicking off to try destabilise the Tory government... I am sure they knew guards wouldn't last forever and would go the way of the department store eventually. GA also has capacity issues and if anything happens on the main line between Shenfield and Colchester for instance the whole thing collapses ( in the same way headspan wires seem to on GWR ) I guess years of underinvestment in our railway is to blame, but destroying half of Camden along with large chunk of the countryside so people can shave 10 minutes of a journey to Birmingham seems okay... Like with our schooling there is a reward for failure, like Katie Price we can keep spending despite being broke and everything will be fine... Grayling is the best one to oversee this mess. The latest "war on potholes" is an example of this... but nothing to raise the limit to 80 on motorways... I read with horror City of London council want to cut the speed to 15 in the Square Mile, lol You couldn't make it up... having mostly abandoned public transport I watch to see what happens next
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Post by 700101 on Oct 30, 2018 11:32:12 GMT
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Post by busaholic on Oct 30, 2018 21:58:25 GMT
I am more curious as to seeing if Failing Grayling will actually grow a pair and strip GTR of the Franchise as he has allegedly threatened, though that's a lot of railway to take back into public hands. GWR (Gets Worse Regularly) seem to be struggling like their South West counterparts too. Are they stealing a Labour Manifesto promise and slowly re-nationalising the railway bit by bit? GTR will not be taken off the Thameslink/Southern/GN franchise. Firstly who on earth would take it on? Secondly it would cost more plus the abject dislike of nationalisation by Grayling. He had no choice with VTEC as the parent company funds were exhausted and politically passing it to DOR was the lesser of two evils even for Grayling. He'd never had lived down keeping Stagecoach and Virgin running it on a management contract basis. Thirdly I don't think the DfT could handle yet another franchising debacle. For all the nightmares we are past the most dire days on Thameslink although performance is still far from good. Southern seems to be running OK. Great Northern remains in something of a mess. I'm not a Govia "fan boy" but I don't see what will be served from getting rid of them. The DfT have emerging problems on Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, Trans Pennine and GWR. All of those franchises are either in financial trouble / industrial relations trouble / new train delivery trouble / network rail inflicted trouble with lots more to come on each franchise. LNER have delayed the IEP introduction due to signal interference issues. DfT also have to somehow get South Eastern's new franchise off the stocks and working by April next year. And of top of the Grayling is having his "rail review" for more half ar*ed / half witted ideas to "improve" the structure of the railway. In consequence Cross Country's refranchising has been delayed indefinitely leading to a lot of complaints that it cannot survive with its existing rolling stock fleet because there is too little capacity. And not forgetting the refranchising of East Midlands and the need to get a load of new bi-modes bought and into service ASAP. PS Grayling actually hates railways which is why he is deliberately descoping and delaying the Oxford - Cambridge rail link and instead spending three and half times the rail link budget on a parallel connector expressway road. The man is an utterly liability and is completely the wrong person to be in charge of such an important department of state. We will be living with his mistakes for the next 30-40 years. I've read a couple of press items which said Grayling not only liked trains but was something of a railway buff. I just remembered thinking that if this joke liked trains, heaven help us if he turned against them! Still, he's a May loyalist/lapdog so will last as long as her.... please God, let the nightmare end.
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