Too many passengers for Grand Central - (Sunday)

On Jul 16, 9:25 pm, "Peter Masson" <peter.mass...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> How many HSTs have NXEC got now? It should be enough to use HSTs form the
> Sunday KGX- LDS trains, diverted via Cambridge, plus a KGX - PBO shuttle,
> with passengers for York and beyond changing at PBO to a PBO - EDB 225.
> Better, if passengers have to change, that it's from train to train rather
> than train to bus to train.

They claim not to have enough, but I haven't tried calculating
possible north of PBO diagrams to validate this for myself.

> There might even be enough HSTs to run the KGX - ABD and INV trains through,
> but if not, it would not be the end of the world if passengers had to change
> again at EDB.

Agreed. People can live with train to train interchange - it could
even be done same platform (different ends) at EDB.

"Tony Polson" <docnews2011@***************> wrote in message
news:vq0q74dcchkvhsbt089rl4gt3u67l4ghi8@********...
> I think most normal people would have found it not only extremely odd,
> but also quite unacceptable, that their tickets were not valid on a
> train that was going towards their intended destination, just because
> it happened to be painted the wrong colour.
>
> Of course trainspotters think that such utter nonsense is perfectly
> ordinary and quite acceptable, and that people should be happy to be
> carried for part or all of their "rail" journey on slow, uncomfortable
> and inflexible bus replacements.

And it is even more unacceptable for NX not to try to run trains round the
diversionary route. They're a big, franchised operator and have the
resources to do so.

Ironically, it was the "trainspotters" at GC (your words, not mine) and Hull
Trains who manged to run round the block - if they managed to get crews
trained etc etc, why can't NX?