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Once you're asleep you're unlikely to be aware the train has moved or stopped. I got the sleeper to Exeter sometimes (not sure it still exists, this is over a

Once you're asleep you're unlikely to be aware the train has moved or stopped. I got the sleeper to Exeter sometimes (not sure it still exists, this is over a decade ago and it wasn't advertised even then). If I fell asleep at paddington I wouldn't wake up when we (didn't) move. Similarly, it got to exeter around 5am but didn't leave until 7ish, you could select when they woke you up: on arrival or 30min before departure. I never woke thinking "we've not moving when we should be"

iggldiggl 4y ago
If you mean the through sleeper to Penzance then yes, that still runs and the down train still seems to be booked to stand for almost an hour at Exeter, but it now departs around 4-ish, so quite a bit earlier. Going the other way it stays in the platform at Paddington for quite a while, so while it's booked to arrive shortly after 5:00, you can stay on until around 7-ish. One interesting thing I've seen in older timetables (late 70s / early 80s) is that in some intermediate locations (e.g. Carlisle) they apparently did the same thing with through carriages which were then shunted onto/off the main sleeper train in order to let passengers from that station board earlier/sleep longer than would be possible based on the arrival/departure times of the main portion of that train.