Blood and Custard
Sorry, I didn’t quite catch the question
(Middlesbrough): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the (a) performance of the Intercity Express Trains on the Great Western Railway and (b) ability of those trains to meet the requirements of the December 2019 timetable.
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough): The industry timetable change assurance programme management office assesses all timetable bids for their deliverability, including the Great Western Railway 2019 timetable, and will work with all operators to ensure appropriate operational plans are in place to mitigate any outstanding risks to the smooth introduction of the timetable. Hansard
LNER SPIRIT
OUR CONTRIBUTOR Theo Steel writes to tell us about the ‘Peterborough 5 miles’ wayside sign on the East Coast main line pictured on this page in the May issue. ‘The sign is not new,’ says Theo, ‘merely a nicely restored inter-war sign that was conserved by the local p-way gang in their store and has now been put back in its rightful position. One of the National Railway Heritage awards last year was for the 50 miles out of Edinburgh that the local gang restored on their own initiative in their…
