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Re:Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached P... by Symbiote on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:45AM (#17273544)
The effect of the northern Scotland sleeper splitting, but being pulled by a locomotive, is the train reverses at Glasgow.

I found I woke travelling in the opposite direction, with the sun streaming through the now East-facing window.

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Re:Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached P... by isostatic on Saturday June 09, 2018 @12:05PM (#17273635)
I think it depends on the day, sometimes th train runs via the west coast, sometimes via the east coast
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