Date: 07/06/2015

I pushed up the blind as we slowed for the stop at Carstairs Junction and saw a pasture where cows stood and chewed, casting long shadows in the new day’s sun. A Clydesdale landscape; framed by the shadows of my compartment, it looked like a bright painting. [From Richard Buckby]

External links

An elegy for the sleeper train “ a waning symbol that Serco has made into a brand

Guardian

Britain should be grateful for the six sleeper services it has managed to retain “ even if their survival points up how much else has been lost

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Having brought the ecs for the Highland Sleeper into platform 15 at Euston, 90028 now waits for the train to depart before going onto the front of the Lowland Sleeper.
Location: Euston
Company: London and Birmingham Railway
10/10/2012 John McIntyre

Running ahead of time, presumably because there had been no passengers to set down, the Caledonian Sleeper heads north out of Dunblane shortly after 5 a.m. on July 3rd 2009 behind 67009. Following a transport review in 2011, there were predictions that the service might not be able to continue beyond 2014.
Location: Dunblane
Company: Scottish Central Railway
03/07/2009 Mark Dufton

Scene at Carstairs at 6.25am on a pleasant Tuesday morning in the Summer of 2006. The 16 coach Caledonian Sleeper from Euston arrived 11 minutes earlier behind EWS 90022. The train has been split and 90022 is about to continue its journey to Glasgow Central with what is now an 8 coach train. Meantime 37405 has been coupled up to the other end and is preparing to depart with the rear 8 coaches for Edinburgh Waverley.
Location: Carstairs
Company: Caledonian Railway
11/07/2006 John Furnevel