(04 Feb 2026, 7:16 pm)PH - BQA wrote That wouldn't work with the timetable. X16s are due into Haymarket at xx:01, and due out at xx:53. Even if the timetable wasn't an issue, you'd have to find somewhere to park up a decker for 20+ mins between X15 and X18 while the X16 used the stand. 

Essentially, taking one route out of that interworking doesn't work.

Guess it all depends what the major changes are which are coming, maybe there might so more radical changes which make it work somehow?

The 777/X16/X30, times wise would work for example - but you'd need to change everything else to make it work. The X30 bit is easy though as long as Northumberland allow the change (shunt the Newcastle outbound back by 20 minutes, and shunt the inbound back by 25 minutes).

I'm sure there's a way somehow to make the rest of it work, with a bit of thinking. Those 4 E400MMC's would be useful being elsewhere imo, and the economics of having deckers on routes which don't need anything anywhere near a decker doesn't make much sense anyway.