Title: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: James158 on June 28, 2010, 00:22:57 I was looking at the Bristol Temple Meads live departure board on Saturday and I saw a National Express East Anglia service to Penzance. I was very suprised as you don't normally see those trains in the West.
It started at Tame Bridge Parkway and terminates at Penzance. There was also services from Penzance to Gloucester and London Paddington. I thought it may be summer Saturday only services. Does anybody else know about them? Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: inspector_blakey on June 28, 2010, 00:55:28 No, nothing of the sort. It's a strange bug in the system that for some reason often seems to show up charter trains as operate by NXEA (at least in FGW territory, possibly elsewhere too).
Did you really think that NXEA would be running a summer Saturday service from Tame Bridge Parkway or Gloucester to Penzance, all of which are hundreds of miles outside their operating area? ;) Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: devon_metro on June 28, 2010, 08:28:54 It's simply a way of allowing charter trains to appear in various live departure versions, they shouldn't really be on there.
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on June 28, 2010, 11:29:15 would have been interesting on the way home the 56's were 100 mins late threw taunton
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: Brucey on June 28, 2010, 16:56:18 Perhaps they didn't think about this when designing the system, but couldn't they have put an additional TOC in the system, e.g. Charter, which can be used for these purposes?
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: old original on June 28, 2010, 18:53:02 FGW doing it on the cheap again...
The ex-wessex system, which, for the time being is still at Cornish stations, has always allowed the TOC decription to be put as "Charter" Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: inspector_blakey on June 28, 2010, 19:13:33 In fairness I don't think it's the FGW system at stations (which, as a passenger, I'd take over the ex-Wessex system absolutely any day of the week) but the National Rail live departure boards system online.
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: devon_metro on June 28, 2010, 19:39:53 FGW doing it on the cheap again... It has absolutely nothing to do with FGW. Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: The Tall Controller on June 28, 2010, 19:46:20 would have also been interesting to see an electric powered train try to get down to Penzance without wires! ;D
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: Oxman on June 28, 2010, 20:18:38 "On the cheap" hardly bears scrutiny when looked at against the ongoing work to renew and install additional help points, same again for CCTV and last, but not least, replace the three CIS systems with a single, new system and upgraded hardware. Slough and Oxford were the pilots for this project.
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: old original on June 28, 2010, 23:08:34 FGW doing it on the cheap again... It has absolutely nothing to do with FGW. I not so sure.. FGW has a system which doesn't allow "charter" to be input as a TOC Wessex does.... you get what you pay for Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: inspector_blakey on June 28, 2010, 23:16:32 old original, you're barking up completely the wrong tree here: the original poster's comment related to the online live departure boards system, which is provided and managed by ATOC and completely independent of FGW's station customer information system. Nobody has been told at an FGW station that a charter service is operated by NXEA.
The FGW system certainly allows notes to be manually added under the train in question. I'm really not sure though where you get this bizarre idea that the old Wessex system is superior to the FGW system, because from my experience it has always appeared to be the opposite! Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: grahame on June 29, 2010, 06:49:39 would have also been interesting to see an electric powered train try to get down to Penzance without wires! ;D Don't see why not ... an electric powered train made it to Minehead the weekend before last. The Hastings diesels - as I understand it - have electric traction motors which are powered by onboard diesel generators. Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: readytostart on June 29, 2010, 15:45:01 would have also been interesting to see an electric powered train try to get down to Penzance without wires! ;D I'm sure NXEA wouldn't make such an elementary error and would use their 156s or 170s for this mystery excusion! ;D Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: inspector_blakey on June 29, 2010, 15:49:50 Or maybe they'd hire in a 47 from DRS to tow a mark 3 set, if they were feeling extravagant :)
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: JayMac on June 29, 2010, 20:03:13 would have also been interesting to see an electric powered train try to get down to Penzance without wires! ;D Don't see why not ... an electric powered train made it to Minehead the weekend before last. The Hastings diesels - as I understand it - have electric traction motors which are powered by onboard diesel generators. Electric traction everywhere in the west. HSTs, Vomiters, Class 66s, Class 57/3s.... Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on June 29, 2010, 20:56:42 i know im drifting further off topic, but there are a couple of ways of getting electric trains down to penzance drag them... or hydrogen powered.... one pointless one wishfull thinking
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: James158 on July 01, 2010, 00:16:57 NXEA probably used their HST's.
Title: Re: National Express East Anglia to Penzance Post by: JayMac on July 01, 2010, 01:14:14 Eh? NXEA don't have any HSTs ???
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