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Are there any where the coaches are older than the locos? I've seen a few photos of say a B1 or B17 hauling ex-GCR or ex-MSL carriages.

Even that would be a vast improvement on the bus service.

Single track from Victoria to Stocksbridge? Passing loops or possibility of redoubling?

Mark 1Suburbans for sure.

DMU wise - Metrocammell Lightweights, and classes 112, 113 & 125. EMUs would be a much longer list, but some extinct classes are: 304, 305, 506.

It wasn't unknown for it to be a single 153 either.

If units are allowed as well then the class 109. Five sets built, one made it to preservation.

Class 77 were a rare class - 7 built. 3 have survived into preservation - a good survival rate.

I don't know what makes it a more fortunate survivor. A prototype loco being a one off already would more or less guarantee a short life you'd think. However, if it's unique and survives then that a 100% survival rate. Compared with a more numerous class that was just scrapped en mass. So class...

Pacers were fun between Barnsley and Meadowhall when it was all jointed track. It sometimes seemed as if the carriages were having a contest of sorts to see which could throw the other off the tracks.

April 14th is already Titanic day surely? :)

I did the Leeds-Sheffield section of that route, thankfully on a 144 though. I NEVER would have done it on a Merseyrail 142, I'd gone for a different service.

Depends on the pacer and the refurb it had (or not as the case may be). Merseyrail Pacers, anything over 5 minutes duration was torture.

Which perhaps accounts for the ex-Southern losing the least under Beeching perhaps, as it had been tackled pre-Nationalisation?

I can confirm they've been on the Penistone Line, I've travelled on one in service, it was a Sunday. I believe the last service out of Leeds to Sheffield via Westgate is almost always a 195.