Crosscountry "Train Search" IPhone app

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[paul7575]

Nice to know that XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) can provide info that's completely meaningless to most passengers, but still cannot provide useful stuff - such as which services are planned to be HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train)...

Paul

[JayMac]

Nice to know that XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) can provide info that's completely meaningless to most passengers, but still cannot provide useful stuff - such as which services are planned to be HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train)...

Paul

Agreed, that info is only available from timetables produced by other TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company), or to those who know where to look:

(Arriva Cross Country - about).pdf" target="_blank">http://www.125group.org.uk/diagrams-AXC.pdf

...even then, there are no guarantees. Have heard that the HSTs are deputising for Vomiters on all sorts of diagrams.....

[Timmer]

As much as I would want to I would never trust booking a journey on XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) because its listed somewhere as being an HST^▸ (High Speed Train) as you could end up disappointed when a Voyager turns up instead of a booked HST.

Between them Virgin and the SRA^» (Strategic Rail Authority - about) finished long distance travel by XC for me. Will go via London instead.

[paul7575]

...even then, there are no guarantees. Have heard that the HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) are deputising for Vomiters on all sorts of diagrams.....

Is that on weekdays or just weekends - they'll be running southbound later when the Taunton blockades are on, I expect.

Paul

[ChrisB]

That'll be why the don't put that info in the timetables then. They'd only increase the number of complaints every time one got substituted....

[IndustryInsider]

Agreed, that info is only available from timetables produced by other TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company), or to those who know where to look:

(Arriva Cross Country - about).pdf" target="_blank">http://www.125group.org.uk/diagrams-AXC.pdf

...even then, there are no guarantees. Have heard that the HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) are deputising for Vomiters on all sorts of diagrams.....

Those diagrams were for last summer, when it appears that on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday there were only two daily diagrams.  That has obviously changed to four now?

[ChrisB]

HMmm - so that's not accurate! Anywhere else?

[paul7575]

http://www.thejunction.org.uk/diagr.html

Weekdays only unfortunately.

Paul

[eightf48544]

Also it would be useful for the proverbial little old lady with her advanced ticket to London at Manchester Picadilly.

They could ask for 1AXX which would be prominently display on their itinery/ticket/reservation. Which would avoid confusion with asking for the next London train with the20 minute service.

[readytostart]

Agreed, that info is only available from timetables produced by other TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company), or to those who know where to look:

(Arriva Cross Country - about).pdf" target="_blank">http://www.125group.org.uk/diagrams-AXC.pdf

...even then, there are no guarantees. Have heard that the HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) are deputising for Vomiters on all sorts of diagrams.....

Those diagrams were for last summer, when it appears that on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday there were only two daily diagrams.  That has obviously changed to four now?

Yup four daily diagrams these days, the reason there were four daily HST diagrams last summer Monday and Friday but not Tues - Thurs is that a MAN-BMH and I believe a PLY^» (Plymouth - next trains)-EDB diagram ran double set on M&F.

Whatever the weekend diagrams the four sets (if all four were used - they are still on a pay as you use contract at the moment and as such if part of the network if sufficiently closed to release extra voyagers - such as Southampton Airport - Bournemouth recently then Voyagers on their fixed price contract would be used) they need to be diagrammed to end at either Neville Hill or Craigentinny where nightly maintenance is contracted, ideally two at each to aid the Monday morning start up.
Flip side is that if part of the network is closed and releasing extra Voyagers, another part may be diverted (such as SC-SW services being diverted via Newport) requiring extra Voyagers and leaving the status quo of HSTs.