Differing stock in the same town/city

[Ivo]

Some places, such as Bath, have a wide range of stock and plenty of character as well. 150s, 153, 158s, 159s, the odd Pacer, a daily Voyager and of course HSTs give the city quite a nice range and character. It even had 180s little more than two years ago, and gets plenty of 66 freight workings as well. For a city of 83,000 people, that's not half bad!

On the other hand, my home town is twice the size of Bath. And yet, all it has, for the most part, are two different types of dull EMU, 321 and 357. Neither is especially interesting in any manner at all, and yet - barring the odd 315 on peak duties - that's all it gets. It doesn't even get much in the way of freight workings; one 66 a week to Pig's Bay is it I think! For a town of its size, Southend is a big disappointment.

What other extreme examples are there, related to settlement size? Where else is quite small and yet can proudly claim all manner of different trains, or otherwise is raher large and gets sod all of interest?

 

[bb21]

In Leicester we get HST, 222, 170 and the odd 156/158 depending on who's working the Ivanhoe Line that day. Pretty uneventful I'd say.

 

[MCR247]

Nottingham
150 - it has happened
153
156
158
170
222
220/221
HST
(60)
(66)

 

[WillPS]

Nottingham
150 - it has happened
153
156
158
170
222
220/221
HST
(60)
(66)

155 has happened too!

Sheffield:
142
144
150
153
155 rarely as above.
156
158
170
185
220
221
222
HST

 

[90019]

Stirling:
158
170
156 - don't seem to turn up that often
HST - one each way per day

 

[HST Power]

Possibly the only perk of living two stops away from Stevenage is the fact that East Coast HST's stop there when heading down to London and up to Peterborough. I'd say you get at least one passing through every hour if you're at Potters Bar, being near to Kings Cross.

 

[blackettstreet]

theres always the network rail fleet to bring variety

 

[tempests1]

Portsmouth

150
158
159
313
377
444
450

Guildford

165
166
XC Voyager
444
450
455
458

 

[jopsuk]

Stirling also has sleeper trains six nights a week, don't forget.

Ivo- what about Basildon? Nearly the same size as Southend. Unless you count Billericay and Wickford, it's only served c2c's 357s

 

[90019]

Stirling also has sleeper trains six nights a week, don't forget.

I knew there was something I was forgetting

 

[adc82140]

I guess London doesn't count!!

However for the same station:

Clapham Junction:

158
159

377
378

442
444
450
455
456
458
460 (any still running?)

Wind back 10 years...

158
159

411
412
421
423
442
455
456
458
Class 73+mk2 stock

 

[rail-britain]

Aren't Bath, Leicester, and Nottingham all cities rather than towns?
Stirling was only recently granted city status
Also don't forget the Class 37, 47, 57, and 66 that also pass through Stirling

In Scotland I would go for the town of Carluke, sees just about everything that passes in and out of Scotland except Class 15x and 17x units

 

[317666]

Cambridge:

317
365
170
(We used to get 156s and 153s but sadly not anymore)

 

[WestCountry]

Cambridge:

317
365
170
(We used to get 156s and 153s but sadly not anymore)

We get a few 321s in the peak too, I see them some mornings.
Do 379s on test/driver training count?

 

[jopsuk]

379s definitely count; they'll be regulars on service trains once the lot have been delivered

 

[IanXC]

Hmm 158s...

Don't even get anything else on Sundays, just 2x 158 on some workings...

 

[gnolife]

Blackburn
150, 156, 158 and im not sure what sort of pacer, but i think its 142

 

[Ivo]

Aren't Bath, Leicester, and Nottingham all cities rather than towns?

Because of this rather picky point, I have edited the title to "town/city" (it was supposed to cover all locations!). Pompey is also a city

Ivo- what about Basildon? Nearly the same size as Southend. Unless you count Billericay and Wickford, it's only served c2c's 357s

As a town, Basildon as a population of roughly 100,000. This actually puts it in a worse position than Southend. However, given it only has the one route (as such), which only has the one type of stock anyway, it's not really the same. Basildon has a reason to have nothing interesting (one TOC with a uniform fleet), whereas Southend doesn't (two TOCs, one of which has roughly ten different types of vehicle).

 

[Lampshade]

Preston:

142
144 (has made it on a York service)
150
153
155 (again, has made it on a York service)
156
158
180
185
221
350 (pre-Dec 2007)
390

37
57
66
86
92

 

[Nonsense]

Not sure what it gets now but Doncaster was my old stomping ground and regular services back in the day (c1992) got:

08
20
31
37
43
47
56
58
60
86
89
90
91
101
141
142
144
150
153
155
156
158
307
321

Wasn't unknown to see the odd class 33, 50 and even 73, along with 317, 319 and others visiting the works. Even LUL stock could be viewed from the station on occasions. Departmental vehicles would even add 25, 45/6 and 84 to the list.

Present services I'm guessing:
08
20
37
43
47
57
59
60
66
67
86
90
91
92
142
144
153
156
158
170
180
185
221
222
321
325
333

Want to add 373s too, though I know thats not current.

Are Nexus Metro units ever visible from the station?

 

[plannerman]

Chester - regular visitors

142
150
156
158
175
507
508
Voyager
Pendolino

20
37
47
57
66

 

[fgwrich]

Reading :
158
165
166
HST
Adelante
Voyagers
455
Junipers
Desiros
loco wise
37s
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s
70s

Basingstoke :
165
166
158
159
Voyagers
442
444
450
455
458
loco wise
20s
37s
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s
70s
73s
HSTs

Eastleigh :
158
159
Voyagers
442
444
450
455
458
loco wise
20s
37s
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s
70s
73s

HSTs - The odd and rare FGW Hst has been through too!

And just like Reading & Basingstoke, tonnes & tonnes of OTP/On Track Machines - Mostly HARSCO's C Series Rail Grinders, Colas / Balflour Beattys Tampers & Several Kirow Cranes....

So, quite a few there!

 

[Ivo]

Go on then; let's do Brizzle (and then Shenfield/Barking)...

43
57 (rare)
66
143
150
153 (rare)
158
159
220
221

66
90
170 (no longer applicable)
315
317 (rare)
321
360

66
90 (rare)
150 (no longer applicable)
321 (no longer applicable)
357
378
'C'
'D'

Those are the sets I know of; there may be more...

 

[SouthEastern-465]

The Southeastern (Grove Park/Hither Green):

Class 465/466

Class 375

Class 376

Some may find the boring, I don't I always enjoy them. The exception being the Class 376 ...

Locowise:

Class 66 (the obvious!)

Class 59

The odd Class 67.

And A1 Pacific 60163 'Tornado' is based at Hither Green whilst in London.

 

[LexyBoy]

Reading :
158
165
166
HST
Adelante
Voyagers
455
Junipers
Desiros
loco wise
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s

I would consider Reading has quite a limited amount of stock considering how busy the station is. HSTs, 165/6, Vomiters and Junipers is all you'll get for passenger; 66s for freight. Occasionally a Desiro will stand in on Waterloo duties, and there's the sleeper 57s.

Never seen a 455 or 158 in the past couple of years.

You could add in 172s though :P Also there's a yellow 31 hauled NR train at Didcot often which I imagine must go through Reading regularly?

 

[Ivo]

When do 172s go to Reading? :?

 

[MCR247]

Reading :
158
165
166
HST
Adelante
Voyagers
455
Junipers
Desiros
loco wise
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s

Basingstoke :
165
166
158
159
Voyagers
442
444
450
455
458
loco wise
20s
37s
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s
73s
HSTs

Eastleigh :
158
159
Voyagers
442
444
450
455
458
loco wise
20s
37s
47s
57s
59s
60s
66s
67s
73s

HSTs - The odd and rare FGW Hst has been through too!

And just like Reading & Basingstoke, tonnes & tonnes of OTP/On Track Machines - Mostly HARSCO's C Series Rail Grinders, Colas / Balflour Beattys Tampers & Several Kirow Cranes....

So, quite a few there!

When do Eastleigh & Basingstoke get 442s?

 

[LexyBoy]

When do 172s go to Reading? :?

I was just being flippant, trying to think of something unusual - there was one parked up about a month ago (testing coupling with 166/165 I believe).

(Unfortunately the tongue-sticky-out smiley just looks like a slightly mad laughing smiley).

 

[SouthEastern-465]

When do Eastleigh & Basingstoke get 442s?

I think he meant they 'use to'...

 

[lm321412]

Erdington - 12x 323s in each direction and thats absolutely it.

Same for most Cross City North stations.


How I would love to be served by 321s and 357s at my local station....