Well it seems that British Rail are back, the train was late (albeit by a few minutes), and the WiFi on the train screwed up mid way into it’s use, also lazyness was apparent by the fact that the train was relivered by covering over the national express East Coast logos with new vinyl transfers, one with the logo used by East Coast, one with their web address, I enclose pictures of this
A Metro-Cammell built British Rail Mark 4 coach in a wacky mix of GNER (dark blue and orange) national express (white band), and East Coast (white text on purple background)
At Darlington, prior to the train arriving, I noticed this, apologies for quality issues, this was done in a hurry on my phone as there were some idiots trying to photograph me without consent at the time
it shows the train is running late, per normal of what was British Rail
The laziness of East Coast extended into the train on this map of East coast routes, all references to national express are covered up, the map was put up by national express more or less when they took over from GNER, but East Coast have just been lazy
This was also hurried as the idiots from prior had got on this train and they had actually succeeded in getting a picture of me without my consent, I could have challenged them but I though best keep my mouth shut, even more so seeing as York station was crawling with police and I don’t do being arrested when I’m having days out
Well I also managed to bid a fond farewell to one of the 3 last remaining Paxman 12RP200L “Valenta” powered InterCity 125 sets operated by Grand Central, a sad moment for me because all through my life that has what has been iconic to me with the InterCity 125, may I wish the 125 group every success in bringing this icon back to the rails one day
Happy journeys :)
