On 08/11/2018 20:43, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 11/8/18 1:21 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
There were overnight trains then: the sleepers.
There still are: GWR's Night Riviera, Serco's Caledonian Sleeper, and (if you're wealthy) Belmond's Royal Scotsman. I rode a sleeper from London to Edinburgh long ago and would like to do it again some time if Serco ever gets their act together:
Murray P. New Caledonian Sleeper trains slip to May next year. Inverness Courier. 2018-10-01. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/New-Caledonian-Sleeper-trains-slip-...
I just now tried to schedule a slot in the Caledonian Sleeper from London Euston to Edinburgh Waverley arriving Sunday, 2019-10-27, which could be an interesting date given the disputes over Brexit and EU DST. Unfortunately for my experiment, that train doesn't operate Sunday mornings - which is perhaps the simplest way for a sleeper train operator to address the issue.
Sleepers were never a problem since they never stopped in the overlap hour. The systems I was upgrading in the early 90's could only display a days worth of traffic, and the day ended at 2AM. Stations on the lines I was working on had normally closed long before that and the systems were switched off. The new day saw a new timetable and often a paper set of updates which the morning staff had to make before services started. My system handled a 24 hour rolling timetable so the night staff could make any manual updates, although the whole system was managed centrally for a line so only one update was needed, but the politics of who does what STILL plagues the UK railways today! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk