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A furious train passenger has complained to company heads after he was removed from the North Berwick to East Lothian service due to safety concerns about an electric scooter he was travelling with.
(Permalink) E-scooter North Berwick ScotRail North Berwick: 385020 at North Berwick, with the 12.12 from Edinburgh, about to return at 12.50 on 29th May 2021. Services were well patronised, the busiest trains I have seen in fifteen months.
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Four Hull Trains class 170/3s arrived at Haymarket shed last weekend after being displaced from the Hull - Kings Cross services following arrival of the class 222 Pioneers.
It is planned to eventually deploy the new arrivals on North Berwick services where locomotive hauled stock is currently in use. (Permalink) Class 170 Class 222 Haymarket MPD Hull London Kings Cross North Berwick ScotRail Haymarket MPD: Two ScotRail HST power cars stand at the east end of Haymarket Depot on 29 March 2021. A 4-car 158 pretends to be the carriages of the one on the left, while the one on the right (with the beard net) ... Haymarket MPD: A ScotRail HST power car sits alone at Haymarket depot on Christmas Day. Its 'mask', like those seen on buses and trams, never looks quite right as a real mask covers most of the face, not the bottom ... |
This was a day of disrupted services. The North Berwick Line flooded, there was a track defect at Gartshore and flooding between Linlithgow and Edinburgh Haymarket (Edinburgh to Glasgow line), flooding at Inverkeithing, a landslide between Aberdeen and Stonehaven, and flooding of the Bathgate line. The East Coast Main Line was closed between Edinburgh and Berwick.
(Permalink) Bathgate Flood Gartshore Loops Inverkeithing Landslide Linlithgow North Berwick Stonehaven |