{"id":24,"date":"2009-06-20T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2010-08-24T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T18:20:40","slug":"saturday-20-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"Sat 20 June 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2<\/p>\n<p>00:23 Falkirk Grahamston &#8211; London Euston (sleeper)<br \/>\nOperated by First ScotRail<br \/>\nSupplement cost \u00a30.00<br \/>\nReservation Coach L Berth 13<br \/>\nThe ride was extremely smooth, with very little noise at any stage, however this was due to selecting a berth in the centre of the coach<br \/>\nBreakfast was either continental, cooked, or vegetarian<br \/>\nThe continental breakfast was selected<br \/>\nThis was served as the train passed Stafford at 05:45, although I had asked for it at Crewe, consisting of an apricot pastry, blueberry muffin, strawberry yoghurt, orange, juice, and a pot of tea<br \/>\nDeparture was on time, with locomotive 67004<br \/>\nLocomotive from Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston was 90036<br \/>\nThis service arrived in London Euston at 07:48, on time<\/p>\n<p>This allows two hours to walk to London Liverpool Street<\/p>\n<p>10:00 London Liverpool Street &#8211; Great Yarmouth<br \/>\nOperated by National Express East Anglia<br \/>\nReservation Coach K Seat 01<br \/>\nSeat used was Coach K Seat 46<br \/>\nThere are no power points in these coaches<br \/>\nLocomotive was 90008, with 47802 between Norwich and Great Yarmouth<br \/>\nThe ride on this train was not very smooth, although I am unsure if this was due to it being the coach at the rear of the train next to the locomotive which was pushing the train<br \/>\nThis service arrived in Great Yarmouth at 12:40<\/p>\n<p>13:10 Great Yarmouth &#8211; London Liverpool Street<br \/>\nOperated by National Express East Anglia<br \/>\nReservation Coach K Seat 01<br \/>\nThe locomotive was 90008, with 47802 between Great Yarmouth and Norwich<br \/>\nThis train terminated at Norwich, due to no staff available to take the train forward<br \/>\nThe next train was due to be the 14:30 Norwich &#8211; London Liverpool Street<br \/>\nAt the last moment, the train was substituted for 170293, departing Norwich at 14:00<br \/>\nThere are power points for laptops on these trains (Turbostar Class 170)<br \/>\nThis service arrived in London Liverpool Street at 16:04<\/p>\n<p>This allows one hour to walk to London Euston<\/p>\n<p>17:30 London Euston &#8211; Glasgow Central<br \/>\nOperated by Virgin Trains<br \/>\nReservation Coach G Seat 01<br \/>\nThis train was 390039<br \/>\nThis train was 10 minutes late at Warrington due to slowing for track work in the Crewe area, then delayed a further 10 minutes at Preston due to a passenger being aprehended by British Transport Police<br \/>\nThis service arrived in Glasgow Central at 22:25, 24 minutes late<\/p>\n<p>This allows 20 minutes to walk to Glasgow Queen Street<\/p>\n<p>22:51 Glasgow Queen Street &#8211; Falkirk Grahamston<br \/>\nOperated by First ScotRail<br \/>\nThis service was operated by 170403<br \/>\nThis service arrived at 23:25<br \/>\nTravel by private car from Falkirk Grahamston to home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 00:23 Falkirk Grahamston &#8211; London Euston (sleeper) Operated by First ScotRail Supplement cost \u00a30.00 Reservation Coach L Berth 13 The ride was extremely smooth, with very little noise at any stage, however this was due to selecting a berth in the centre of the coach Breakfast was either continental, cooked, or vegetarian The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/576"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rail-britain.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}