On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:46:37 +0000, Sam Wilson
wrote:

In article ,
Jeremy Double wrote:

Chris Tolley wrote:
Peter Masson wrote:

"Chris Tolley" wrote
WCML via Carstairs doesn't sound unreasonable for 20 years ago, without
actually looking it up.
20 years ago the Clansman ran between Euston and Inverness via Edinburgh.
There was also a Euston - Edinburgh sleeper, though other sleeper trains
ran
from Kings Cross.

I recall trains that used to split at Carstairs. Had they stopped by 20
years ago?

IIRC, in the 1980s they were Birmingham to Edinburgh & Glasgow trains
(some may have come from further South East/South West on Table 51).

In the 1970s there were Manchester/Liverpool-Glasgow/Edinburgh trains
which split or joined at Preston and Carstairs.

And 1980s. I used them two or three times a year.

The best journey arrived back in Manchester horribly late because it
was diverted via the Settle and Carlisle line and had to work its way
across Lancashire to Preston to drop the Liverpool portion before
doubling back to Manchester.

Sam