Ianigsy

The curse of 47832 strikes again- does anybody fancy trying to
persuade FGW that it'd be a useful back-up for the Cornish sleepers?

But I suppose it's not a good time to be diversifying, or to be
chasing a diminishing top-end of the market. Neither has it been a
particularly good time in the last six months to be trying to operate
a leisure operation out of Carlisle, with too many route closures
restricting destinations and empty stock movements. If you really
wanted to start up a charter business in the current climate, the
market to go after is probably all-in family excursions to the
seaside- rather than flash dining trains, a through day trip from
Glasgow to Blackpool, stop in the suburbs and run via the GSW to pick
up in Kilmarnock and offer a family ticket for about £50. In other
words, take people where they want to go at a price they can afford.