Loco is 91111  it will work 1025 Ncle  to K Cross  returning on 1430 dep from K Cross due Ncle at 1742

Waiting at Durham station today waiting for my train, and after an East Coast sped through I was puzzled to see about 5 minutes later, a Grand Central speed through Durham too, heading southbound..... Diversion?

(12 Oct 2014, 8:24 pm)JoshP wrote Waiting at Durham station today waiting for my train, and after an East Coast sped through I was puzzled to see about 5 minutes later, a Grand Central speed through Durham too, heading southbound..... Diversion?

1A61 on Sunday was caped between Sunderland and Northallerton maybe the one you seen at Durham.

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y3...2/advanced

https://www.flickr.com/photos/47309173@N06/15347992358/

91111 and the schedule for the rest of the day: 1025 Newcastle-KGX, 1408 KGX-Newark, 1552 Newark-KGX and 1803 KGX-Skipton.

(14 Oct 2014, 1:05 pm)Andreos1 wrote https://www.flickr.com/photos/47309173@N06/15347992358/

91111 and the schedule for the rest of the day: 1025 Newcastle-KGX, 1408 KGX-Newark, 1552 Newark-KGX and 1803 KGX-Skipton.

Looks fantastic! Certainly won't have to worry about not seeing it

Wires down at Berwick  91129 lost its pantograph cancellations, and  delays.

Forgot to mention, that the East Coast reward programme is changing.

They sent an email out the other day, stating the majority of rewards will now need a greater number of points from January.
Just as I approach the required number of points for another 1st Class Return too...

Was at Durham collecting tickets earlier today and noticed East Coast have luggage labels near the ticket machines on the southbound platform.

It seems several stations have colour coded tags.

Never noticed these ever, but guessing they aren't brand new.

Anyone have any ideas or further info?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30222458

Best of a bad bunch? Utter disgrace non the less.

(27 Nov 2014, 7:59 am)aureolin wrote http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30222458

Best of a bad bunch? Utter disgrace non the less.

According to Sky news: http://news.sky.com/story/1381265/east-c...ice-pledge 

The Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told Sky News the deal would provide the Treasury with more funds, at £3.3bn over the eight year contract, while there would be a series of benefits for passengers, including:

:: 23 new services from London to key destinations, with 75 more station calls a day.
:: Plans for direct links to Huddersfield, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Dewsbury and Thornaby.
:: Proposals for more trains to London from Bradford, Edinburgh, Harrogate, Leeds, Lincoln, Newcastle, Shipley, Stirling and York.
:: An additional 3,100 extra seats for the morning peak time by 2020.
:: A 12,200 or 50% increase in seats across the entire train fleet.
:: There would be 65 state-of-the-art Intercity Express trains brought into passenger service from 2018, totalling 500 new carriages.
:: Journey times from London to Leeds reduced by 14 minutes, and from London to Edinburgh by 13 minutes.
:: A £140m investment package to improve trains and stations.

Sunderland's service is starting next May - a one a day extension of a Newcastle train, doubling to 2 a day in May 2019 both HST-operated until May 2020 when the IEP replace them.

Middlesbrough and Thornaby are served from May 2020 with trains reversing at Darlington - 7 southbound and 6 northbound trains a day operated by IEPs from day 1.

(27 Nov 2014, 9:28 am)Kuyoyo wrote Sunderland's service is starting next May - a one a day extension of a Newcastle train, doubling to 2 a day in May 2019 both HST-operated until May 2020 when the IEP replace them.

Middlesbrough and Thornaby are served from May 2020 with trains reversing at Darlington - 7 southbound and 6 northbound trains a day operated by IEPs from day 1.

Cheers for the info =) 

I think we need more trains to London from the North East

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...enger-mile

Interesting figures, that show exactly how much the Government are paying to support the privatised rail network.
I can't imagine the furore that will errupt, if/when the ECML changes to a negative outlook, rather than the positive it is now.

It is worth pointing out, that the new trains were coming regardless of who was running the ECML.

Also within the "North East to benefit" news item on the Stagecoach Group website is the news that frequency between Newcastle and London will increase to 3 trains an hour (though no date is given for this). IEP starts to be introduced from 2018 so I'm guessing then, with existing stock remaining in service until there are enough IEP sets to run the extra services.

This might help people

http://maps.dft.gov.uk/east-coast/

Not sure if it's been mentioned, or in one of the links, but I hear the new operating name will be 'Virgin Trains East Coast'.

(14 Dec 2014, 4:45 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Not sure if it's been mentioned, or in one of the links, but I hear the new operating name will be 'Virgin Trains East Coast'.

That is right, the company is called Inter City Railways, but will be trading as Virgin Trains East Coast, however unlike the West Coast, Stagecoach hold a 90% stake and Virgin 10%, whilst on the West Coast, that one is 49% owned by Stagecoach and 51% owned by Virgin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Trains_East_Coast

(14 Dec 2014, 5:25 pm)citaro5284 wrote That is right, the company is called Inter City Railways, but will be trading as Virgin Trains East Coast, however unlike the West Coast, Stagecoach hold a 90% stake and Virgin 10%, whilst on the West Coast, that one is 49% owned by Stagecoach and 51% owned by Virgin.

Personally, I'd love to see them revive the InterCity125 livery on the 43 sets and the InterCity225 livery on the 91/82 sets.

(14 Dec 2014, 5:26 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Personally, I'd love to see them revive the InterCity125 livery on the 43 sets and the InterCity225 livery on the 91/82 sets.

Nah....we want something modern, not going back to the days of British Rail 

Has anything ever been said or brought up, with regard to the competition aspect of this deal?

Obviously both railways between London and Scotland are now to be operated by the same group.
As well as that, you have the frequent Megabus offering between Scotland & London. Not forgetting Virgin flying between Edinburgh and London.

Are BA, Easyjet and National Express the only alternatives?

91125 the Sky1 branded locomotive is now back into East Coast grey and purple stripe. Not sure about the Mk4s and the DVT.

On the Virgin/Stagecoach franchise... 90% owned by Stagecoach? 10% of the franchise must just be the name.

(15 Dec 2014, 10:29 am)ArrivaNE_7522 wrote 91125 the Sky1 branded locomotive is now back into East Coast grey and purple stripe. Not sure about the Mk4s and the DVT.

Think they are still in the Sky1 livery. Last time i saw a picture of the set they were paired with Flying Scotsman 91101.

Not sure what's up with Platform 3 at Newcastle today, but East Coast diverted both the 0655 and 0704 to Platform 4, at short notice.

#Police Helicopter out #eastCoast #emergencyservices  #rail indecent #Northumberland http://t.co/tL9wJO51hM

Long distance shot of scene involving a class 42 in Northumberland

(17 Dec 2014, 4:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote Long distance shot of scene involving a class 42 in Northumberland

I thought you would know your trains....class 82, hope you are not blaming fat fingers  

Only about 40 years between the two classes... Nee idea!

Due to over running engineering works, no trains in or out of Kings Cross tomorrow!!

http://news.sky.com/story/1398050/train-...t-tomorrow

(17 Dec 2014, 6:18 pm)Andreos1 wrote Only about 40 years between the two classes... Nee idea!

A Class 42? A good old Warship - I've yet to see one in action!

Yeah, 38 built of the class built between 1958 and 1961.

(26 Dec 2014, 5:58 pm)citaro5284 wrote Due to over running engineering works, no trains in or out of Kings Cross tomorrow!!

http://news.sky.com/story/1398050/train-...t-tomorrow

Wow. That'll hold a lot of people up, no doubt. Probably people's first chance of escaping for the past two days! haha

Let's just hope they have something else up their sleeve!