The Ticket Collector

GNER cancelations 18 Jan 2006

Just hope your not traveling GNER today, due to a 50mph speed restriction in force GNER have, to their own admission, cancelled the following services today.
11:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 13:22
11:10 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 13:41
11:40 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 14:01
12:10 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 14:35
12:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 14:20
12:40 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 14:59
13:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 15:40
13:10 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 15:35
13:40 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 16:13
14:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 16:22
14:10 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 16:35
14:35 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 16:48
15:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 17:15
15:10 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 17:35
15:35 London Kings Cross to Bradford Forster Square due 18:28
16:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 18:23
16:10 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 18:23
16:35 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 18:55
17:03 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 19:21
17:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 19:28
17:20 London Kings Cross to Hull due 20:00
17:33 London Kings Cross to Bradford Forster Square due 20:22
17:40 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 19:59
17:50 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 20:21
18:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 20:21
18:03 London Kings Cross to Skipton due 21:13
18:20 London Kings Cross to Newcastle due 21:27
19:03 London Kings Cross to Leeds due 21:34
19:05 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 21:41
19:13 Bradford Forster Square to London Kings Cross due 22:04
20:40 Leeds to London Kings Cross due 23:32

FCC Emergency Timetable

edit: And now just to top it all more problems are happening.
Train services at Huntingdon are being disrupted due to safety checks being made.
Train services between London Kings Cross and Stevenage are being disrupted due to an obstruction on the line in the New Barnet area.

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To minimise the risk of damage to the overhead power supply cables a speed limit has been imposed on First Capital Connects services from 0800. Delays and some cancellations are possible.

Services from Moorgate to Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage via Hertford North are running as normal.

Peterborough services
- Semi-fast services running as timetabled, but journeys will take longer due to high winds
- xx36 service terminating at Huntingdon

Cambridge services
King’s Cross - Cambridge fast services are cancelled.

King’s Lynn services
- An hourly shuttle service is operating between Cambridge and King’s Lynn at the times of the normal services.

Peterborough – King’s Cross
Semi-fast services are running as timetabled. The stopping service starts from and terminates at Huntingdon.

First Great Western launches new refurbished train.

Biggest investment since Brunel built “God’s Wonderful Railway” in mid 1800s.

Thats what the First Group Corporate statment said.

Today First Great Western launched a new internally refurbished HST train, one of our regular contributers to this blog has sent us some information and photographs about the launch event today.

The redesign covers everything inside the trains from seats, lighting and toilets to at seat power throughout the train.

There is new seating in Standard Class, the new seats have a pitch of 32 inches, comparing favourably with top airlines such as British Airways World Traveller seats (31 inches) and Virgin Atlantic Economy seats (32 inches). One of the things in Standard which was noticable was the lack of tables in one of the coaches.

Other features of the new look interiors include:
· Leather seats in First Class – a first for any UK train operator;
· Vibrant new colour schemes – taupe and blue in First Class and lilac and blue in Standard Class;
· 240V power points at table level in all First Class seats;
· 240V power points between seats, which are mainly airline style, in Standard Class;
· Redesigned drop tables in Standard Class that are large enough to accommodate a laptop and a cup of coffee;
· Glass screens to replace old partitions of luggage racks so passengers can see their luggage easily from their seats;
· New toilets, including a drain-away floor, which has been designed for easy cleaning;
· Express Café to replace buffet area;
· Textured, ridged carpets in the vestibules, which are anti-slip and easy to clean;
· Dividers in the overhead luggage racks, which stop luggage moving along the racks;
· Hooks for jackets in both First Class and Standard Class;

· Both wheelchair spaces are in Coach E where the disabled toilet is;
· Braille signs on toilet doors and facilities inside the toilets.

Power cars are also having new engines, which will make them 15 per cent more fuel-efficient and produce less emissions. For example:
· 64 per cent less CO2;
· 21 per cent less NOX;
· Hydrocarbon emissions down 46 per cent;
· Smoke emissions down 42 per cent.

FCC 26 Hour Days?

With thanks to londonist.com for the following photograph.

So First Capital Connect have decided that in order to improve performance on the Thameslink route, they shall insert extra hours in the day, nice move.

http://www.londonist.com/archives/2007/01/ever_wished_for_more_hours_in_the_day.php

Incident at Royston

At Approx 1950 today there was a serious incident at or around the Royston area. At first we were told it was a fatality, news started coming through that the lady in question actually survived and that the line would reopen within 30 mins.

There are still minor delays occuring and should all be cleared by the end of service today.

The Times = Theiving Bastards

It Seems that the theiving bastards more commonly known as The Times have decided to steal content of this site. We all know that most of the people that read The Times are a bunch of dinosaur thatcherite tories. Also the people that work for News International well I better not say because I want google to keep listing this blog as a clean friendly blog.

Well The Times have stolen the content of this site and NOT linked back.

The Times has learnt that as few as four groups are expected to submit expressions of interest in the service, which is expected to be worth more than £1 billion and run for up to 7½ years, when a deadline expires on Monday.

I wonder how they have learnt this hmmm. Was it because we were leaked to first and The Times were pissed of that they were left out of the frame as per normal because they are a crap paper? Makes you think that we reported the news first and The Times reported afterwards?

The Times understands that Arriva, National Express, FirstGroup and a joint venture between Virgin and Stagecoach will submit expressions of interest. A question mark hangs over the possibility of a fifth, joint bid from Serco and the Dutch rail operator NedRailways.

There we go again, cut and pasted from our blog. Needless to say we have had a new document leaked today from an unnamed source at the DfT, but to be honest its not going to be published because the greedy wankers from The Times will steal it.

East Cost Mainline messups.

GNER decided to cancel loads of services today.
Virgin had a failed train.
Northern had a failed train.
There were 80mph emergency speed restrictions.
Flooding Between Glasgow Queen Street, Stirling and Edinburgh.
Ok so first of all Network Rail decided to inforce some 80mph speed restrictions between York and Edinburgh due to high winds, which could possibly affect the overhead wires. This obviously caused some delays to scottish bound services.

GNER Cancelled the following Trains.
1D37 - 1435 Kings Cross to Leeds was Cancelled.
1D39 - 1535 Kings Cross to Leeds was Cancelled.
1A31 - 1405 Leeds to Kings Cross was Cancelled.
1D38 - 1510 Kings Cross to Leeds had an additional stop at Stevenage at 1529.

There was a broken down Virmin Trains service between Wakefield Westgate and Doncaster.

There was also a broken down Northern Trains service in the Leeds area.

Oh and to top it all there is still Flooding in the Glasgow/Edinburgh areas, so there are less trains able to run.