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Great video spectacular train i alway seem to get stuck with azumas when i travel. Am travelling down to london Tuesday so fingers crossed i get a 225. Also you use the seatfrog app where you can bid on upgrades have got upgrades before very cheaply. Keep up the great work
Looked like a very enjoyable ride! I'm so used to seeing those coaches on the tfw mark 4 sets, and yes they do look like gaming chairs now you mention it 😂
Thanks, G! Definitely much better than the LNER Azuma, and I'd recommend trying LNER's IC225 First Class one day! Oh yes, cannot forget about the Transport For Wales sets which are very similar! Hopefully I'll try out their first class one day too!
Thanks for the video. Am surprised it's taken you so long to sample the 225s. As an aside ...the first class seating was renewed in VTEC's days with LNER just adding its name.
My wife and I have had a few short breaks in Edinburgh over the past couple of years and are actually going again later this month. We stay at the Premier Inn Hub Hotel at Haymarket. Travelling by train, we always buy PlusBus tickets, which gives up unlimited bus and tram travel on our arrival day and/or departure day. An an example, we paid only £105 for 3 nights in January this year.
Another good video. 38 minutes late is pretty annoying, but I suppose it could be worse. What has been your biggest delay ? My daughter returned to Newcastle from Kings Cross last year and was over 2 hours late. At least she got 100% of her ticket price refunded.
@brianmorrison9168 Thanks Brian, long delays can be really frustrating sometimes and can throw plans off course! Ouch, two hours late is certainly no fun! When you ask me about my biggest delay, do you mean on a single train or on a whole journey including changeovers?
@@ReecesTrains Let's say .. total journey. Although it's never happened to me, I wonder what would happen if, say a first train arrived only 20 minutes late, which caused you to miss a connection and ended up at your destination an hour or more late. Would the first train company be liable for delay compensation
@brianmorrison9168 Yes whichever train caused the problems. I would say the first Inverness attempt did cause an issue because I was delayed two hours and sadly swapped to a HST which I didn't film. I do like the HST's but not as good as the Turbostar.
Great video again Reece! 323's are true Loiners! As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm of an age to remember the 323's when first introduced in the Manchester area in 1994. 👍🙂
I hate these things with a passion. If you are over 6 foot forget any idea of comfort. Air con may or may not work in summer ditto the heating in winter. Then there is the noise and diesel fumes because of cracked or twisted window frames. Tired and almost as worn out as the HSTs. Give me a 170 over this junk any day.
I live on the Northumberland line. Only a select few drivers can take this line. I’m January they usually do a few training runs with drivers to prepare for these kind of works. I always go take photos when I see the fleet running through on RTT
One downside with the 196/1s is that the non-disabled toilet is extremely cramped Wolverhampton is very much a bottleneck with multiple TOCs sharing four platforms, so it isn't surprising that trains are often delayed there
That doesn't sound very accessible for a non-disabled toilet! I'm not surprised with Wolverhampton being busy, I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in the area.
The section between HWH and Brampton is the most interesting as it crosses the Tyne/Eden watershed. Your viewers would have appreciated it. The whole line is relatively scenic I think.
These diversions happen every year in late September/ early November, it doubles your journey time to Edinburgh from Newcastle. Sometimes Newcastle United's fixtures coincide with not having a home game, so i sometimes miss them. Other TOCs who run Newcastle- Edinburgh usually put coach replacement on, the journey time is no quicker than the diversion.
Interesting that it departed via High Level bridge rather than reversing and then via King Edward bridge; possibly 50/50 time wise if it was meant to be a short stop. The last time I went along that route via Hexham was via the old route through Scotswood and over the Tyne further upstream, before the Metro Centre was built. At that time, the route via Dunston was freight only.
Yeah I thought that too, I think it may be so the coach numbers still match up and the train is on the right side from Edinburgh Waverley onwards if heading north.
One correction, very little known. 11 platforms now, not 12. Platform 12 hasn't had a train for a long time now, and although most of the track hasn't been lifted,what is there is in fact completely physically cut off from the network.
@@ReecesTrainsAs I understand it, they are making an extra entrance near Platform 12, and plan on extending platform 11. Work has been held up by a contractor going bust and having to find a replacement
Hi Reece, just discovered your channel today and I like it!! My son is about to be diagnosed (he's 5 years old) and from what I gather, there are many, many undiagnosed people out there. It seems that there is greater awareness of it than there was back in the day, so I would hope that in time the world becomes more autistic-friendly. Keep doing what you're doing!
You know what ‘ I just seen an LNER pass Hexham on my way home ( Hexham is on the Newcastle - Carlisle line ) So I looked it up and it brung me here ‘ coincidentally this was posted a day ago and the train I saw was headed towards Newcastle so I got to see it on the way back
Oh nice!! Yes, they're diverting via Tyne Valley Line for a few weekends while engineering works are taking place between Newcastle and Berwick-upon-Tweed on the ECML.
@@ReecesTrains That’s interesting, Sometimes I just go to Newcastle to see trains, I once seen a cross Country Train headed for Penzance which was hell of a sight aswell
A few years ago they had some of their 91 hauled stock go that way pulled by a 67 to Carlisle and then the 91 took over.The most interesting division was years ago when it was GNER when the line between Northallerton and Darlington was shut and they went forward via the Stillington freight line.I think that HST's were the type of train used for that.
Oh interesting! I knew that the HST's used to divert along the Tyne Valley to Carlisle and then North but never knew a 91 did that. Never knew about the diversion between Northallerton and Darlington! Thanks for sharing!
