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Probably way outside the scope of this fine forum, but has anyone any information why FTE have cancelled all Manchester to Newcastle services...all week :-\

Up to the weekend they seemed to have performed well in the adverse conditions. No explanation on the NR info site.

Cheers, caliwag

Don't know if this is relevant but I was on a TPE 185 that got stuck for 4.5 hours (!) near Beattock Summit on 8th January. (good effort by staff, btw, doling out the tea and biccies to keep the punters happy.)

The brakes locked on due to cold weather (I guess some pneumatic component froze in the wrong position - would be interested in more info if anyone knows.)

So maybe (and I stress this is pure guesswork on my part) they've decided to do some mods to their fleet to stop this happening again. 

Interesting, will try to follow that up with contact...you could be right, but I'm surprised they're not making more of that on their own and NR websites.

I travelled last Friday (well below freezing in York) YRK to KX and return same day...all went pretty well despite frozen points North of Yrk and Colton Jct. Staff were cheery, with lots of info.

I even went so far as to send a congrats note to East Coast!

Son carried on to Truro and Falmouth from Padd. and all went well. ;D

Shocking fleet availabilty is the reason. Lots of broken trains. Northern, FCC, SWT and TPE all suffering.