Re: Cross country on Camp Hill line?

On 23 Jul, 22:01, naked_draughtsman <usen...@petereverett.co.uk>
wrote:
> I was on a Cross Country train today from Cheltenham to Manchester.  I 
was
> expecting it to go into the west end of New Street and reverse out to hea
d
> off to Wolverhampton.
> Instead we slowed down at Kings Norton and crossed over to take the Camp
> Hill route and go into New Street from the east, passing all the way
> through the station to get to the west side to head off to Wolverhampton.
>
> Can someone enlighten me as to why it goes this way - I though New Street
> was really congested so it would have made more sense to go in at one end
> and reverse out again.
>
> Is it to keep up route knowledge?  To avoid running the service in reve
rse
> formation?  To introduce slack in the timetable (to give the option of
> running into the west to catch up if late)?
>
> Despite getting checked several times on the approach to New Street we
> still arrived 20 mins before departure time which makes me think it was a
> deliberate diversion.
>
> peter

Generally Plymouth-Edinburgh Trains go via University and Fiveways and
Plymouth - Manchester trains go via Camp Hill. This is purely to avoid
a reverse at New Street. The Plymouth - Manchester trains all have
that 20 min wait at New Street, I'm not entirely sure why as the
Plymouth-Edinburgh trains have a maximum of 5 minutes usually.

Regards
Tom
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