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Is this really any different to Alton Towers or Disney world etc selling fast pass tickets? You can pay a lower price and spend more time in a queue, or pay slightly more to get on quicker.

Cat Smith is Lancaster and Fleetwood, David Morris' constituency covers Carnforth, Tim Farron is the MP for the south Lakes

I wonder if they could move the 195s out at night, under a possession? 950001 (a class 150) does run down that line, but it's always early in a morning when nothing else is running.

Having viewed the train, there isn't much damage to that side of it. Just a few minor scrapes

The train was probably held on the embankment by the wheel running along the inside of the rail by the embankment (acting in the same way as a check rail over a viaduct.) More than by the retaining wall.

The hole extends slightly under the other track. I wouldn't walk over it, never mind drive a train.

Pic of the final working at Edge Hill has appeared on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/rf100/53449464868/in/dateposted/ 319369 working 2C31 2052 Wigan North Western to Liverpool Lime Street

I've just viewed the 1757 southport to Hunts Cross, and it's 507018, so 001 has gone AWOL somewhere. Edit, reported on the Merseyrail Faceache page it's stabled at Southport.

Just observed heading back as 2S42 1621 Hunts Cross to Southport

SIMS don't scrap them in a few hours, what they do is drag them to one side for processing. If your laying stuff out literally side by side with no space between them you can fit a lot of stock in a small space. The cutting area is away from the rail lines. This is how they can manage to take...

Moved to Kilmarnock from Haymarket, is it still there?

They have made it to Birmingham new street on Virgin CrossCountry trains, The Birmingham Cross city line on a railtour. Also I think they were used as a coupling adaptor to drag SR units to Crewe works in the late 90s

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There are only 2 sidings at SIMS. if it doesn't get scrapped almost straight away, it gets dragged off the rails by grab and thrown to one side to await scrapping.

Some did get taken to Carnforth a year or 2 ago, once they have used all the wheel sets etc from those I would presume another batch will follow.