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…or wait for some weekend engineering work. Just occasionally there’s work blocking Meadowhall and a limited service via the Tinsley route

Definitely 4-SUBs (from the partly-legible coach number beginning S86..). The depot at Leicester is now UKRL (see https://ukrl.co.uk/ for details), who do ovehauls and mantenance, but I’m not sure about the line of ancient hulks.

I was at Leicester a couple of years before those photos - evening/night was a hive of activity, with a 31-hauled short TPO (Peterborough-Derby/Crewe I think), and various parcels, including one for the Birmingham direction for which Saltley sent over a light engine 50, otherwise a rare loco at...

You might also try variations of mk2, mark2, mkii, mark ii with the words coach, train etc, and date taken earlier than 1980

Found this via a flickr search for mark 2 coach maroon and then using the filters for taken before 1980: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnel_one/51035324242/in/photolist-2kKPnRu Western at Plymouth with a rake including a maroon mk2 as well as a Hawksworth GW coach

Most unlikely survivor would be an unreliable loco, withdrawn long before it was preserved, surviving only by chance in the nether reaches of the network. For example the class 28 D5705. Class withdrawn 1968ish, used by the Research Departmen, preservation from the 1980s, still being restored today.

Probably work it out from a big enough sample - are there any with 2 figures after the "." and if so, are they just 10s and 11s?

Woking was a base for engineering trains, so could they have been gathering just before/after the weekend?

I've photos of the opposite, a footex from Reading to Gillingham. Us Kentish spotters were expecting a loco and Mk1s, but it turned up as a 3-car 117 DMMU. Actually rarer in most of Kent than 47 + Mk1s which turned up most summer weekends into the 1980s on seaside excursions from off-region...

We had intermittent problems with the broadband + phone line when it rained a lot. It turned out to be a poorly-installed bit of wiring outside the house: it had a kink in it, causing the insulation to part just enough to let moisture in and mess up the line. BT/Openreach’s problem so the...

The "Enthusiast's Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe" site at https://egtre.info/wiki/Main_Page gives lots of info on border crossings: https://egtre.info/wiki/Border_Crossings_-_General_Information and in the individual country sections, it has a "Rule of the road" heading showing left...

Were you thinking of the later (1980s?) Stagecoach mk2 coaches that got added to an overnight train? Edit: 1992, see the thread over on rmweb https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/33200-1992-stagecoach-rail-mk2-sleeper-service-carriages/ Edit 2: see below!

No tracking I suppose. They do appear with actual times on realtimetrains, but only when on the rail network, not south of Tinsley.

If I search for "TT" in the bustimes.org search box, it takes me to here: https://bustimes.org/services/tt-sheffield-parkgate showing the timetable for Sheffield-Parkgate.

Did you mean re-create a 508 in its original 4-car formation as delivered to the Southern Region? Not sure why you'd want to, as it's essentially identical to a 507, and resources/cash for preservation are pretty limited and probably best used elsewhere