Thanks for this! Definitely brought back memories of my childhood in Boston and day trips to Skegness (and Nottingham!). Thank you for just including the sounds of the journey and no horrible music.
My abiding memory of this period in our history is alighting at Manchester Piccadilly and hearing for the umpteenth time `The 8:18 to Skegness is cancelled due to changes in the timetable`. Luckily I'm going on to another part of Manchester.
The 170 Turbostar will certainly provide an upgrade to this route as 2 hours on a 170 is much better than 2 hours on a 156. The 158 that operated this route could give Nottingham to Liverpool services 6 carriages on some services as EMR are now keeping that service.
It would be good to have more services skipping Grantham as it could provide some good journey time savings for Sleaford, Boston and Skegness. Perhaps they could alternate every other hour with a service via Grantham then then next skipping Grantham.
Thanks for this! Definitely brought back memories of my childhood in Boston and day trips to Skegness (and Nottingham!). Thank you for just including the sounds of the journey and no horrible music.
Can’t wait to go here in April ☀️
My abiding memory of this period in our history is alighting at Manchester Piccadilly and hearing for the umpteenth time `The 8:18 to Skegness is cancelled due to changes in the timetable`. Luckily I'm going on to another part of Manchester.
Cool video!!
The 170 Turbostar will certainly provide an upgrade to this route as 2 hours on a 170 is much better than 2 hours on a 156. The 158 that operated this route could give Nottingham to Liverpool services 6 carriages on some services as EMR are now keeping that service.
It would be good to have more services skipping Grantham as it could provide some good journey time savings for Sleaford, Boston and Skegness. Perhaps they could alternate every other hour with a service via Grantham then then next skipping Grantham.
Maybe East Midlands Railway could run a service to Louth if the former railway line was to reopen and introduce 3tph from Lincoln to Louth.
I would love to see the route to Louth reopened.