Re: Cross country on Camp Hill line?

"naked_draughtsman" 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 head
> 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 reverse
> 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.

PSUL shows the following trains to be booked via Camp Hill:

Birmingham Grand Junction - St Andrew's Junction - Bordesley Junction -
Lifford East Junction - Kings Norton Junction (51,57) CC [partly common with
adjacent entries]
0530 SuX Birmingham New Street - Cardiff Central
1819 SSuX Birmingham New Street - Worcester Shrub Hill
1900 SuX, D 1900 SuO Bristol Temple Meads - Birmingham New Street/Manchester
Piccadilly
D 2210 SuO Bristol Temple Meads - Birmingham New Street [from 14 September
2008]
2050 SSuX Cardiff Central - Birmingham New Street
D 0850 SuO Edinburgh - Penzance [3 February until 23 March and from 14
September 2008]
D 1130 SuO Glasgow Central - Plymouth [3 February until 23 March and from 14
September 2008]
XC trains between Manchester Piccadilly and the Cheltenham line

Landor St Junction - St Andrew's Junction - Bordesley Junction - Lifford
East Junction - Lifford West Junction (57) CC [partly common with adjacent
entries]
Until 6 September 2008
1745 SO Bournemouth - Leeds
From 7 September 2008
Service withdrawn

Landor St Junction - St Andrew's Junction - Bordesley Junction - Lifford
East Junction - Kings Norton Junction (51,57) CC [partly common with
previous three entries]
No service shown in timetable.
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