Recent content by keithheller18

The remaining 153's that LM have on the books are falling apart. Years of keeping them going with sticky tape have caught up with Tyseley. In May the 150's are supposed to be going to Northern with 153's taking over the Bedford's. Dont ask how or why. Nobody knows what the diagrams are. But...

Believed to be a DSD fault on 90048. So a safety system fault stopped the loco working. Not necessarily reliability.

Well at a time when The Borders Railway has opened with an explosion in passenger numbers & Scotrail are struggling to cope with increasing passenger numbers on their other routes. The last thing they wanted was to loose class 170's off their express routes. Such as the Glasgow- Edinburgh route...

Because Scotrail already had their class 320/4's built as original 3 car units in the 80's they was crying out for extra capacity. Seeing as they were short of class 170's. So step forward the 331's from LM. The ATS coach was easy to loose & then standardise to the 320/4's. 3 & 4 coach...

I signed the units as a guard. So what's your expert opinion on the units then?

Morning, The coaches you all refer to are not TSO's. They are or were Auxilary Trailer Standard coaches. Or ATS! When London Midland lost the 321's to go to Scotrail in 2015 the coach was split from the formation & gutted mostly underneath. Of course as part of the refurb of the 3 car...

1A76 is a normally a Friday's only (this week Thursday) additional from Preston to Euston. It gets the voyager to London for strengthening another voyager service. It runs via Alsager & Stoke to keep route knowledge fresh for driver & guard.

Let's clear a few things up... 1. The 1633 when introduced used to be a Pendolino. The set used to work back to Euston as the 1958. Then when Virgin ramped up the Anglo Scot services it would run empty to Oxley. When there was a shortage of Pendolino sets Virgin would use the Birmingham...