Christmas White Rose, Cambridge - York - Cambridge, 17 Dec 2015

Recommendations from friends (via the York Show Facebook page) are -

• Bengal Brasserie, Goodramgate...
• or just outside Monk Bar -The Viceroy, Monkgate. (2 mentions)
  
• Mirchiz on Fishergate (very good!).
• Added: 2nd reply - John, can recommend The Raj in Bootham. Have been there a couple of times with friends and we've all enjoyed it.

Hope these help.

 

23:04 on 5Z44, don't know if that's accounting for the late departure from York though.

 

23-04 is the EST at Cambridge (on RTT)

 

Depending on your price range, Garden of India on Fawcett St (by the Barbican) or Masala Craft on Fishergate (the later is more expensive). Akbar's on George Hudson St was good as well.

My experience of York is from 4 years of uni!

 

On the subject of delay compensation, I suspect that, since charters are not fined the full amount when they cause delays to others, they're not entitled to anything when they are delayed. Thinking back to the year just gone, that's probably just as well. What sort of bill might WCRC be facing otherwise? (Maybe that's a question for the "review of the year" thread elsewhere...)

 

Not quite sure what is happening but its currently running just over half an hour late on the original timings having left York nearly 2 hours down. Gained 40 minutes back at Newark and the loop nearby and another 20 minutes to Peterborough. At this rate it'll be early by Cambridge!

 

Perhaps it doesn't pay to ask too much about details. A Duchess could (can?) go like the wind, it's a double motive power trip, and the ECML has high line limits. Wonder what time for 0-60/75 you can achieve with both units going for it?


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35 late from P/boro ETA Cambridge 22-57

 

Flying through Grantham

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Cancelled at Ely according to real time trains

 

Cancelled between Ely and Cambridge due to a PLANNING ERROR. Thats a new one; whats it mean and how do the passengers get home now ??

 

What a shame after it had made up so much time. so near yet so far away!

 

If true It means someone has made a stonking cock-up. The who, why and what will no doubt emerge in due course but another bunch of disgruntled passengers I would imagine.



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So do WCRC now have a train where it isn't supposed to be parked with all the attendant issues of how it and the crews are supposed to get back to Southall (& pax to Cambridge) because the routing path has run out through an actual system glitch (genuinely accidental), with water bowsers in wrong locations etc, etc., or did the network planners intend it to stop at Ely in the first place for some reason but didn't tell the tour organiser! My cynical head says perhaps the latter.


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Even curiouser. RTT show a WCRC ECS diesel hauled Ely - Cambridge leaving at 22:20. Train 5Z44 Why ECS when there are pax to carry?


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Approaching York this morning ;-

 

Anyone on the train or station at Ely prepared/able to give an update?


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It's following its 5z44 just tried to catch it throu foxton missed it running 6 early

 

So did the tour get sorted out to proceed after all? 5Z44 seems to have disappeared off the Ely lists now but it and tour still on Cambridge page


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I think you will find that the small number of Cambridge passengers were offered the option of travelling the final short distance home by service train rather than sit at Ely for half an hour while the loco took water.

The time recovered between Newark and Peterborough was largely due omitting the half hour pathing pause in Claypole loop and the 18 mins recovery time after Tallington Jn.

Peter James