Wednesday 20 May 2020

Train Movements at Euston (2)

At the time of writing, the world is suffering from the serious, new respiratory disease Covid-19 and the U.K. is currently in 'Lockdown'. Only essential travel is permitted, resulting in train passenger numbers collapsing and revised timetables.

In the post Train Movements at Euston, I documented a few evening departures on 16th April 2020.

I've documented more incomplete fragments of arrivals and departures during the restricted Covid-19 timetable below.

I'm sorry the information is fragmentary. This is partly due to the internet becoming notoriously unreliable in these strange times, despite having a 'fibre to the cabinet' feed which on a good day produces at least 40 MBPS. With most people at home during 'Lockdown', at present internet speed is sometimes as poor as 0.2 MBPS with a 'ping' of 2 seconds, or it even becomes totally unresponsive.

Note 'VT' is the TOC code for Avanti, 'LM' is the TOC code for West Midland Trains.

Evening movements on 15th May 2020

Plat Nbr Dep Destination Nbr Arr From TOC
1 1F27 19:44 Liverpool 1M14 18:48 Crewe VT
2 1P06 19:18 Preston 1M13 17:58 Crewe VT
3 9G42 19:28 Wolverhampton 1B24 18:55 Wolverhampton VT
4 1B22 17:54 Wolverhampton
5 5D91
6 1H05 19:08 Manchester 1A52 18:19 Liverpool VT
7 1H07 Manchester 1A54 18:41 Manchester VT
9 2D46 19:15 Watford
.... Later ....
1 9G47 21:28 Wolverhampton 1M15 19:57 Crewe VT
3 9G45 20:44 Wolverhampton 1A59 19:49 Manchester VT

Lunchtime movements on 16th May 2020

Plat Nbr Dep Destination Nbr Arr From TOC
1 1H11 13:08 Manchester 1A02 10:54 Manchester VT
2 1H08 12:08 Manchester 1A05 11:43 Liverpool VT
3 1F15 12:51 Liverpool 1A06 11:59 Preston VT
4 1S63 12:12 Crewe 5S63 11:49 Wembley CS VT
5 9G50 12:31 Wolverhampton 1B04 11:28 Wolverhampton VT

Engineer's Trains on 16th May 2020

In the evening, three engineer's trains from Bescot arrived. The first was 6G50, a train of bogie ballast hoppers top-and-tailed by a pair of GB Railfreight Class 66. This continued to Euston before re-appearing on the Down Fast and slowly making its way to the work site which, as far as I could determine, was north of Primrose Hill Tunnels. Later, 7G52 arrived. This was hauled by another GB Railfreight Class 66. As it slowly passed the Railcam UK camera at Camden, also heading towards Euston, I could see it was an assortment of engineering materials with a number of bogie open wagons at the rear. I didn't follow matters but on Sunday morning these trains, together with Colas Yellow plant vehicle and 6G51 which appeared to be another ballast train were all showing up in describer berths apparently north of Primrose Hill Tunnels, surrounded by more berths displaying '****' in red, probably as a signalman's reminder of the work in progress.

Morning movements on 20th May 2020

At the time I wrote this, the Government were encouraging our railway system to increase services to help get the country back to work so just after 08:30 on Wednesday, 20th May 2020 I made another quick 'snapshot' of long-distance trains at Euston

Plat Nbr Dep Destination Nbr Arr From TOC
1 1R04 W'ton 05:45 VT
2 1H15 09:20 Manchester 1R12 11:43 W'ton 06:45 VT
3 1H63 09:40 Manchester 1R06 W'ton 06:04 VT
4 5H12 0741 Wembley CS VT
5 9P54 08:43 Preston 1R07 08:10 Lancaster VT
6 1F13 09:07 Liverpool 1R08 08:20 Manchester VT
7 1U27 08:46 Crewe 1U00 08:06 Crewe LM
8 1Y32 19:32 Birmingham LM
9 Local
10 Local
11 Local
12 5R11 09:12 Wembley CS 1R11 08:39/td> Liverpool VT
13 1Y08 08:13 Northampton LM
14 1S48 09:10 Glasgow 1R10 08:23 Manchester VT
15 0M16 Off sleeper?
16 1Y09 09:13 Birmingham 2B14 07:39 Bletchley lm