Railway Performance Society Magazine - Milepost
Mass Timing Days
At least once a year a group of society members will attempt to record the performance and punctuality of as many trains as possible on an agreed route.
The route chosen for 2012 Marylebone to Banbury - Look out for more news regarding this event in Milepost.
The selection criteria is that the route should be approximately 25 to 70 miles long, at least 90mph line speed (somewhere), mixed traction, accessible to large number of members and journey time of about a hour.The date and route is decided many months in advance and advertised in the society magazine 'Milepost'. Normally a Saturday in summer is chosen to provide maximum daylight. The event is co-ordinated by an organiser who will attempt, as far as humanly possible, to allocate one society member per service train to ensure that a complete a picture of the day's rail services are recorded. The organiser produces a report of the day which appears in 'Milepost', or as a supplement, passing comment on each individual run - not always an easy task as there can be over 70 runs to comment on - in each direction!
A full history of the Mass Timing Day is detailed in the table below:
- July 2011 Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford
- July 2010 Manchester & Stockport to Stoke and Crewe
- June 2009 Paddington-Reading
- July 2008 Crewe to Newport via Shrewsbury and Hereford
- July 2007 Sevenoaks to Folkstone Central and Tonbridge to Hastings 21st MTD
- June 2006 York to Darlington
- June 2005 Liverpool Street to Colchester
- September 2004 Basingstoke - Southampton
- September 2003 Leicester - Derby/Nottingham
- September 2002 Leamington Spa - Oxford/Princes Risborough
- September 2001 Darlington - Newcastle
- September 2000 Bristol - Birmingham
- April 1999 Taunton - Exeter
- April 1998 Cardiff - Swansea
- April 1997 Kings Cross - Cambridge
- April 1996 North Wales Coast
- July 1995 Crewe - Liverpool
- July 1994 Waterloo - Basingstoke
- July 1993 West Midlands Day Ranger
- September 1992 Doncaster - York
- September 1991 Stafford - Crewe
- September 1990 Derby - Sheffield
- September 1989 Kings Cross - Stevenage
- September 1988 Paddington - Reading
- September 1987 Gatwick Express