DarloRich
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Good point, could be.
By the way you spelt Bletchley correctly - standards are slipping!
Dyslexia - I didn't even know it was wrong! (It is worse on screen than on paper strangely!)
Good point, could be.
By the way you spelt Bletchley correctly - standards are slipping!
Didn’t use any 321s on FNW. 322, (admittedly, almost the same thing) The 158s used to stop at Newton Le Willows on that train from Rochdale to Euston. Bargain at £25 return in my pre rail employee days.
Dyslexia - I didn't even know it was wrong! (It is worse on screen than on paper strangely!)
I thought the FNW London services were mainly 321 operated? Or am I getting things mixed up? I certainly didn't think they were DMUs.
Rochdale/Man Vic was 158s to Euston, Manchester Airport was 322s.
In the London area, other than out of Waterloo have Sprinters operated anywhere other than the Goblin line? I assume the Goblin 150s would have operated along the rest of the North London line out of service too?
Related to the question, I don't think any 156's have ever visited the south west, well past Bristol at least (as they did see use from Cardiff when the 155's were all taken out of service when new, brand new 156's were loaned for a time.....)
Remember travelling from Coventry to Euston on a rake of Tyseley 150s, in Centro green livery. I travelled in 150107 which was part of the rake. Must be about 15 years ago. The juice was switched off. Got to Euston just after midnight early on the Sunday morning. Did attempt a photo, but it didn't turn out too well.But other members of the sprinter family have
There's a photo of a FNW-liveried 158759 at Euston on flickr.
Sprinters were used when the line was shut between piccadilly and guide bridge due to the building of the M60 bridge at ashton moss, they went picc, stockport and via the denton line to guide bridgeI was wondering about Glossop and Hadfield, although as DarloRich questioned the validity of the NR 950 unit which most probably has visited virtually every outpost on the network I'm not so sure.
Edit: Definitely not valid having just found shots of 150211 at both Glossop and Hadfield back in 1991.
Into Heathrow?Sprinter family: 150, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159.
EDIT: I suppose the 950 counts, but more interested in passenger operations or empty stock moves.
Is there any area these units haven't worked in the UK?
I don't want to limit this to individual stations as I'm sure they would be loads. I was thinking more routes or areas. For example, you see them around the Manchester area.
I can only think of electric terminals out of London (apart from Waterloo). Most large stations I think of have seen a sprinter train before.
Don't recall any in Kent ever...the nearest I can think of is the 170 to Uckfield....I could (always) be wrong...
I can’t think of many Sprinters in Sussex apart from the two a day on the West Coastway (GWR to Bristol and points west), usually a 158 though I’m sure a 150 did the trip once.
None on Brighton mainline AFAIK, and I think none on the North Downs Line (AFAIK the Gatwick - Reading service is a class 166).
Don't recall any in Kent ever...the nearest I can think of is the 170 to Uckfield....I could (always) be wrong...
Indeed, and before that it was the old Thumpers. (201/209 ?) Of course Southern reclassified their 170’s to 171’s when they had the couplers changed to match those of their Electrostar fleet.
I can’t think of many Sprinters in Sussex apart from the two a day on the West Coastway (GWR to Bristol and points west), usually a 158 though I’m sure a 150 did the trip once.
None on Brighton mainline AFAIK, and I think none on the North Downs Line (AFAIK the Gatwick - Reading service is a class 166).
171s (and 170s) aren't Sprinters - they're Turbostars.
With the issues regarding diesel stock on the Liverpool Loop line, I doubt that Sprinters will have done much on the Wirral, other than operating Wrexham-Bidston (and probably Chester-Rock Ferry pre-electrification).
Didn’t use any 321s on FNW. 322, (admittedly, almost the same thing) The 158s used to stop at Newton Le Willows on that train from Rochdale to Euston. Bargain at £25 return in my pre rail employee days.
Definitely been to Milngavie- there was a spell in the 2000s I think where Knightswood Tunnel was shut for engineering & the Maryhill services ran through to Milngavie. I reckon the Balloch branch probably hasn’t seen one & neither will much east of Bellgrove, though possibly something has run over the Sunnyside curve. On the Motherwell question, remember that there used to be a 156/158 worked service to Cumbernauld every hour before electrificationWhat about some of Glasgow Electric branches such as Neilston and Milngavie?
450 class DEMU though?The dead obvious area in the UK where no Sprinter (as in classes 150, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159 and 950) has ever been is Northern Ireland.
The 150/0s have run that way many times.I can’t think of many Sprinters in Sussex apart from the two a day on the West Coastway (GWR to Bristol and points west), usually a 158 though I’m sure a 150 did the trip once.
In the London area, other than out of Waterloo have Sprinters operated anywhere other than the Goblin line? I assume the Goblin 150s would have operated along the rest of the North London line out of service too?
Are you thinking of the Waterloo-Manchester via Bristol?As I recall didn't 158s operate out of Paddington for a while to somewhere in the North West?
While 156s have done Glasgow-Kilwinning-Ayr-Girvan/Stranraer, have any been on the Largs branch? Or on the Gourock/Wemyss Bay lines for that matter?