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And now showing it as time travelled and being 13 early so don’t believe everything you read on RTT!

 

Open train times shows 07 in Peterborough but can't see where the coaches are

*07 now on the train in platform 5 54 late*

 

Thanks Jack.


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Left PBO now

 

Ralph I’m not blaming RTT. At no point have I said anything is their fault?

I’m saying not to believe everything you read on there - perhaps I should then add your words - they are only as accurate as the information they receive

 

But is RTT programmed to catch up on any delay where there is a lengthy stop? That's not a data issue. I can see this works as an assumption for freight trains which lose their path and then regain it, so there is a logic to it. But in the case of charters it does seem quite systematically to assume water stops,loco changes etc can be done instantaneously if necessary. Traksy gives a better picture but trains do seem to disappear and then reappear mysteriously.

 

Rolling in to York 40 down

 

That’s how it goes sadly. 40 late and trainshed full.

 

No understand Mr Fawlty.

Is there a hailstorm of biblical proportions due at any moment please?

Bryan

 

But at least Platform 9 is not as bad as 10 and 11 where they seem to make WCRC operated tours go. One of the grimmest places in the country. Probably also why XC have to use it at times as well.

 

I dont know that that is true. 44871 arrived as booked in Plat. 5 on Saturday. Of course anything coming in or out of Holgate Reception Sidings has to use 9,10 or 11 as you cant get to 3 or 5 from there. And from a dispatch point of view 3 and 9 are a nightmare - give me 10 or 11 any day over those two.

Peter

 

Maybe I have just spent far too long very cold and sometimes damp on 10 or 11. Not sure I can actually remember an RTC tour that ended up anywhere when I was stewarding, not to say they did not.
Even remember standing there on P10 in the pouring rain watching Mark Taylor couple up Les Ross on the return leg of the 2018 Whitby Flyer.

 

60007 captured at Grantham, Doncaster & Newark Northgate on her run to York today, all three shots capturing the A4 at speed on her home turf:

 

60007 seen working the Christmas White Rose at Grantham Newark Doncaster and York.

 

Around the 5 minute mark on that video, as SNG pulls slowly out of York, there is a squeak every third exhaust beat. Any thoughts as to what that is all about?