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Just pulled into Birmingham Moor st off the 1010am Marylebone ?

Does anyone know why there is a sorry looking class 37 and 08 at the once Dudley station? construction of the Wednesbury to Briley hill line is taking place here and has far has I'm aware there is no mainline rail access. Only a short section of new track rebuilt from Dudley going towards...

Not long arrived. 2 car 196 today

The english electric 16 csvt is one very large engine' imagine the loco sitting out of winter how cold and damp the engine block and injecters are. It take one heck of along time start from cold ' even longer to complety warm up this is why BR kept them idling on dept plus the fact BR did not...

I look forward to seeing and hearing these ' Just goin out 69ing ' I'll be a few hours . So what pet name are these goining to be called ?

It's amazing how critizium there is for this unit ' yet non of you have seen of head up close ! Guess they should of designed like 1st gen Dmu ' but then again theres always a few who would have said they look horrible too . This just looks like 172 with a new front end ' and it doesn't need...

The orange look nice in real life 'make the 172s look drab' and they have much cleaner lines and coach ends than the 172 'a bit like a 350 coach end but with out all the cables Off he goes again ' 101 pauses at shirley with the 1038 am 5Z22 to Stratford The units are very Quiet '

196 101 pauses at Hall green with 5Z21 08 29 am test run from Stratford back to Tysley LMD These front light are Extremely bright 'no need for a yellow front ' they are dazzling ' heaven knows what they be like at night. The old ' and the future

Another test run on 5Z22 104 stops briefy at spring road 1600336936 Another test run on 5Z22 104 stops briefy at spring road

196 104 leaves Tysley at 1036 with 5Z22 to stratford and return Each unit will have to do 5000 miles accumulation testing look like nice seats and tables in there

The doors you are seeing are the inner doors 'there 2 sets inner for when the unit is coupled and passingers walk through the outer doors when running are black ' it's been on depot like this for 2 months

I guess covid may have some part in the non testing ' but WM metro have been training drivers on there route daily for over a month so no problem with drivers and instructors in the cab so not problem working rules wise. And while takeing these photos of the 196 a got talking to 2 workers at...

Well the 196 has been at Tysley for 2 months know and still no sign of it going out on test ? I remember the testing of 172s in the early days I saw them all out testing ' hope to see these beatys testing too 'might be some time though! w

Has any one given any thought has to the age of some of these locos , built 2009/11 Some of these locos need a heavy overhaul depending on mileage or engine hours , who's going pay for this and were will be done ? Has mentioned TOPs have the answer

Look out for the raindeers !