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Not forgetting that some 455s have ex-508 trailers dating from 1978
20 Apr 2024
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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway
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Can you do that? The Public Accounts Comittee may have locus, but I wan't aware that wasting taxpayer's money is actionable in a court...
20 Apr 2024
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799201 running today 20/4
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Another visitor for the SVR diesel gala next month? (yes, I know it's H2-powered)
20 Apr 2024
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In that case I stand corrected on the Manchesters. (Were Gresley buffet cars still in use on the Liverpool Street boat trains that late?)
20 Apr 2024
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Close but no cigar. The wires on the main oine only reached Colchester. The harwich boat trains got no further down the GEML than...
19 Apr 2024
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"Prince" (1863) and "Taleisin" (1999) The ffestiniog's newest locomotive, "James Spooner" was built in 2013, but I can't find a picture...
19 Apr 2024
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SWR are still the only operator to have introduced a new class of train this year, and it's already April. No 93, 555, 756, 805, or DLR...
19 Apr 2024
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Transport for Wales Class 231 / 756 FLIRTs
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They've been in service for a while on the Rhymney line. Hopefully this sight means the 756s will soon appear on that line
19 Apr 2024
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Which probably also identifies S1000S as the green Mark 1 in the p1967 picture at Clapham Junction What is that box? Not all mark 1...
19 Apr 2024
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Early colour photos of Mk2 carriages in maroon livery
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Unfortunately, Googling "Mark 2 maroon" only produces lots of pictures of Inspector Morse's Jaguar. Roughly the right era though...
19 Apr 2024
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I wish they would do that anyway. At places like Wimbledon and Earlsfield (up) and Raynes Park and Kingston (down) there are dangerous...
19 Apr 2024
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Shouldn't they have done that five years ago? The text could be read as meaning they have 701 vacancies, which would seem rather a lot...
19 Apr 2024
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Difficult to tell, but the two Hayling island branch photos may well be of the same rake, in which case we have a picture of a 1963...
19 Apr 2024
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The VoR was part of British rail until privatised in 1989. Were Class 15x running to Aberyswyth by then? No 9 was officially a 1924...
19 Apr 2024
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The WR one might well have encountered 252001 in service. Deliveries of 253s started in 1975. I don't know when they entered service...
19 Apr 2024
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