BBC News 24

It's a Virgin train in Newcastle Central Station.

And given that it's Newcastle, we can surmise that it's a Virgin Voyager. Voyagers are used on Virgin Cross Country routes (which includes services through Newcastle up to Scotland); Pendolinos are currently only in use on WCML services out of London, as far as I know.

Correct. Pendolinos are electric only trains so have to stick to the WCML unless they have a diesel loco added on. Voyagers are Diesel Electric so have multiple use.

Ah. It had crossed my mind that it might be Carlisle. But that was only a guess.....

Having travelled on (quite possibly) that very trian into that very station many times, I've never recognised it until now. Just thought I'd share that with you...

Well if it isn't then it has a remarkable similarity to platform 3 in Central Station, I was waiting there last week. There are also a few other shots from what I'd say is Central Station. If you look to the far right of the image below you can just about make out Platform 3.


http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/NewcastleStation.jpg
from http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk .

It does look very much like Newcastle, and I'm not questioning the fact that it is. I'm just saying that I've never noticed before.

Presumably you've all missed the irony here.

News 24 counting down to the precise second and displaying their accurate time keeping with a little timer, whilst possibly the most unreliable, time-ignorant thing on the planet, a train on a British railway network, sits in the background.

Super.

Don't know whether it's just me, but I've never experienced a train being delayed or cancelled, and I use them regularly.

Yep. Just you!

Certainly just you!!

If I take another ''direct train'' that makes me change at Nottingham because 'the service is terminating here, as we are out of drivers'' I will scream.

Use National Express. It's the future.

What about a car?