The Late Night Virgin Mystery

A kind friend has solved the mys­tery of the Plymouth-York Vir­gin Cross Coun­try which is sched­uled to leave Leeds at 22.10 then takes 48 minutes to York, arriv­ing at 22.58, after a Trans Pen­nine which has left Leeds at 22.12. Appar­ently the Vir­gin reverses at Leeds and travels to York via Cas­tle­ford, for crew train­ing pur­poses, as Cas­tle­ford is on an offi­cial diver­sion­ary route. Good to know that.