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New Livery for East Coast (GNER)

So its finally been leaked/released. The new livery for the new operator of the East Coast Mainline - National Express East Coast. The picture below is a scan of a proposed livery from an internal staff magazine.

Sorry the photo has been taken down and made offline.

National Express are quoted as saying they want to have one brand for all of its operations, including bus, coach and rail. ‘One’ Railway is to be rebranded yet again as National Express East Anglia.It is reported that this rebrand will run into several hundred thousand pounds.

Poor weather conditions in Scotland and England

We have just been informed that their are bad weather conditions expected in the next few hours. Speed restrictions are expected on some costal lines. Also be aware that poor rail conditions will cause some delays.

We are also hearing that delays are expected for tomorrow morning, we will let you know as soon as we recive the information, as this has not yet been confirmed.

GNER cancelations today:
15:30 Kings Cross (London) to Edinburgh due 20:19 - no reason given

Broken… Train, Level Crossing and Signals.

Today on GN.

There was a broken down train between Wakefield Westgate and Doncaster.
There was a broken down GNER train in the Huntingdon Area.
There was a power supply issue to a Level Crossing between Huntingdon and Peterborough, this was causing all trains to run at a reduced cautionary speeds.
There was also signal problems in the Kings Cross approach Area.

GNER £5 Singles! All Routes

GNER have decided to offer people a farewell by offering £5 singles on all of its network.

For example you can travel from London to Edinburgh for a fiver or from Newcastle to Peterborough for a fiver.

As per normal for these tickets you have to book in advance at GNER.co.uk/five and have to stick to the train times on the ticket.

We have found a new GNER easier to book ticket site at http://tickets.gner.co.uk/gner/en/journeyplanning/GnerWebTISHomePage

You can also only buy this ticket online. Please dont go to ticket offices asking for this fare as they will look at you as if to say “what are you on about”.

You can buy from other online ticket sellers but you must use the promotion code “MALLARD225″. The £5 fare will come up as “PROMO FARE” and will have a different coloured background. However please be aware that thetrainline.com charges £2 for credit cardbookings.

Tickets brought for travel after mid December will be vaild on the new operator National Express East Coast, even though they will say GNER on them.

Why not book for the new year?

The offer applies to Standard Advance fares, for travel from 30 October 2007 to 27 January 2008 inclusive.

This offer is bound to be devilishly popular. The sooner you book and the more flexible you can be in terms of your travel times and dates, the better your chance of bagging a £5 ticket.

If you’re cunning, you’ll also take advantage of the two frighteningly good offers on the right.

Bookings open on Monday, 29 October 2007 and close on Sunday, 4 November 2007 inclusive, subject to availability.

Please note that when the offer starts, tickets will be available for travel up to and including Friday 18 January. On 1 November, tickets for travel to Sunday 27 January will go on sale.

You can travel between Tuesday, 30 October 2007 and Sunday, 27 January 2008 inclusive.

Seats are available on off-peak services, with limited availability on Friday and Sunday afternoons. There will also be limited availability when major events are taking place.

Please note that engineering work will take place on some weekends during this promotion and may affect journey times.

You must book at gner.co.uk/five

Seats are subject to availability, so please book early to avoid disappointment. We expect the biggest demand for travel at weekends—if you can travel mid-week you will have more choice.

If you require space for a wheelchair or have access requirements during your journey, please call our dedicated Assisted Travel Team on 08457 225 225 before you book.

Major credit, debit and charge cards are accepted as payment. No booking fee with GNER.

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Good Bye GNER

Bye Bye GNER, I would say its been nice knowing you, but it hasnt. In this post we shall say what lasting legacies GNER has left.

• Towards the end of GNER, their trains have brought power lines down on the ECML, constantly failed in the worst area possible.
• Lack of information when problems do happen.
• Hiked up Car Parking charges.
• Created stupid advance purchase tickets, without any training for staff.
• Hiked up buffet prices, which you needed to have a footballers salary to buy anything. (Wheres Norton Finance when you need them)
• Created surly and aggressive Revenue staff (not all of them.)
• Charged for a WiFi service which never worked.

Have we missed any out? If so please do add them to the comments section.

Now its overhead problems in Huntingdon AGAIN.

Some people at notwork rail really need to be a)retrained b)sacked c)shot and shot again. It was only a few weeks ago when the overheads failed at Huntingdon before.

Services are subject to severe delays and possible short cancelations due to the Overheads failing in the Huntingdon area.
GNER are currently running to an amended timetable for the rest of today which can be download here. An hourly shuttle GNER HST diesel train service will operate between Peterborough and Stevenage calling at Huntingdon.

First Capital Connect will operate a replacement bus service between Peterborough and Huntingdon. Services from London will terminate at Huntingdon.

Notwork Rail currently hope to complete repairs by 1400 this afternoon. Normal services will resume as soon as possible after the line reopens.

13:10 A normal service has resumed.
Residual alterations and delays of up to 30 minutes can be expected until 16:00

Problems on GN route Monday

FCC had some severe problems on their GN route yesterday.

The rumors are currently stating that 2 trains all failed in the Royston/Ashwell area. This caused a surge in power on the overheads and subsequenty the power failed. This is unconfirmed, so dont be telling your boss this is the reason you were late yesterday.

No services were running for a while first thing in the morning, this was due to another failed train somewhere in the Letchworth/Hitchin/Stevenage area. This affected FCC, GNER and Hull Trains.

Services started to get back to normal for Peterborough passengers, but passengers to/from Cambridge were subject to severe delays and had to get a shuttle service between Hitchin and Royston and between Royston and Cambridge.

According to National Rail the line re-opened at around 1730. Services got back to timetable at around 20:00