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I'm on the EN 490 heading towards Hamburg right now. Pretty nice, but I can barely post here, because there are so many tunnels.
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Train heading up to Stratford Depot off HS1!
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I can imagine Jamie walking backwards up the escalator trying to get his phone out to get the photo :P

Saying that, I didn't know Javelins used that depot. I thought they only used the Ashford one.
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Having to get home from Nottingham today has been a nightmare...

Packed 158 to Grantham ,now on an EC HST to Kings X.

All because of a broken phone mast on the power lines at Bedford.
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I think you'll find it was the threat of a mast falling on the lines. But yes. Huge disruption.
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And it couldn't be lifted easily due to high winds making any crane operation too unsafe.
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Caught in the chaos on the WCML. Sitting on a stationary voyager somewhere between Rugby and MKC...

Excellent, honest and clear announcements from the train manager however; it really makes a difference when the railway is clear and open about the reasons for disruption.
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I've found that from a few of the guards on Virgin. Very good announcements, clear, and plenty of information provided :)

Hope you get back alright Jamie! :P
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Sat on a 442 after leaving work. Give me one of these over a 455 any day.
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Currently aboard 185118, going to Middlesbrough. Just left York. Where the train is now hm, no more than 30% full!
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How full was it between York and Leeds!
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JamieLei wrote:How full was it between York and Leeds!
Not crowded! I'd say probably 85%, assuming all carriages were as full as the centre one i was on.
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85%? That's pretty full considering it was an early-afternoon service, typically about the quietest time of day.
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audigex wrote:85%? That's pretty full considering it was an early-afternoon service, typically about the quietest time of day.
There were no more than 6 maybe 7 vacant seats in the carriage I was in. It was also a saturday remember, so shopping and what not.
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Currently on a 166 from Paddington to Moreton-in-Marsh on the Cotswold Line, and I have a question!

Is there a reliable way to tell in advance what MU will be running on a particular service? I visit friends in London at the weekends fairly frequently, and am usually not too bothered when I travel. The HSTs and Adelantes are much more comfortable than the Networkers, it would be good to be able to plan my journeys around catching the former and not the latter.
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If you use the advanced search on real time trains, it will allow you to click on an individual service which will provide details such as what the train is booked to be.
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That's amazing! Thanks Dave.
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Dave wrote:If you use the advanced search on real time trains, it will allow you to click on an individual service which will provide details such as what the train is booked to be.
Unfortunately it's not showing what the booked allocation is, but showing what 'timing load' has been used. In some cases, multiple timing loads are used, in which case only one is shown.

In some cases this indicates what type of train is likely to be allocated to the service, but not always.

To give two examples, all GC services to/from Sunderland appear to be "pathed" as "High Speed Train (HST125)" (only some are booked to be HST) and all Chiltern services between London & Birmingham & beyond appear to be "pathed" as Pathed as "Class 158 (Express Sprinter) DMU" (none are booked to be Class 158, and some are loco hauled)
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You're right, but I think it does at least say HST or Class 165 on this occasion.

Obviously it's subject to change, but it is anyway, right?
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Dave wrote:You're right, but I think it does at least say HST or Class 165 on this occasion.
That's what it's pathed as, yes.

It may or may not be what it's booked as, but without knowledge of what the planners have diagrammed, you won't know for certain.
Dave wrote: Obviously it's subject to change, but it is anyway, right?
The website doesn't show what's booked, but I agree that if it did, it would of course be subject to change as you say.
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