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    Marston Vale line suspension over - FULL services start running 19/02/24

    Yes, it saved time by diverting through Manchester as Reddish South was flooded. 3 units but don't know which numbers.
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    J27 65894 location please (1969)

    Thank you for the very helpful comments. It was indeed Pelaw. The closest row of 4 houses in the first picture are still there and can be identified on Google street View. Thanks for confirmation of the date. According to "preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com", it "steamed through Newcastle...
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    J27 65894 location please (1969)

    Hi. I'm trying to pinpoint the location of 65894 in these pictures (taken by me). I have scanned them from colour slides, so the quality isn't perfect. The date was 11th April 1969 (or possibly one day either side). I understand that this may have been the day this loco went to Thornaby via...
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    WMR Class 196 Build and Implementation

    196008 on test/training run between Tyseley and Nuneaton via Leamington Spa. Seen here today at Coventry Arena. This service ran yesterday and today. It may be the first time a class 196 has been up this line (unless you know different)...
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    Things you don't see in trains any longer

    Yes, I remember that the wooden panels in the Hastings diesels had small plastic labels stating "Weathered sycamore". Perhaps these have survived in the preserved unit.
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    Class 730 LNR & WMR Delivery/test Updates

    730004+730024 were doing the Stafford-Nuneaton runs today. They have just returned to Oxley (saw this on the Bushbury Railcam). Therefore it was two other units that went to Bletchley today.
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    Class 730 LNR & WMR Delivery/test Updates

    If the one seen at Stafford was 024, then the one I saw at Coventry was not. The Stafford one is running to/from Nuneaton all day, as one of them did last week.
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    Class 730 LNR & WMR Delivery/test Updates

    Just saw this coming through Coventry on way to Bletchley: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:S32736/2023-05-01/detailed Too far away to see number but could be 730024
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    Tender Locos and Pull-Push Trains

    Thanks for the replies. I conclude that the instance to which I was referring (with the Q1) was not operating push-pull and that it must have used the up/down lines at Crowhust.
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    South London Line before London Overground

    It's drifting off the original topic of this thread (sorry), but the first stock I remember on the ELL at New Cross was F stock, probably around 1960. These were the ones with oval cab windows.
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    Tender Locos and Pull-Push Trains

    Can anyone confirm that the Crowhurst-Bexhill West branch was push-pull? I seem to remember that they used the bay platform at Crowhurst. If that's the case, the loco would not have been able to run round. Although it mainly used tank engines, I remember that on at least one occasion towards...
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    Class 730 LNR & WMR Delivery/test Updates

    730024 again At Nuneaton today
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    "Door ingress operated" alarm on Pendolino 19/11/22

    Hi all. Thanks for the replies. Very likely. I guess "egress" can sound like "ingress", so it's very possible that it was misheard. Certainly "egress" would make more sense, and the train manager did come through asking whether anyone had touched the doors. Later in the journey it was...
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    "Door ingress operated" alarm on Pendolino 19/11/22

    I was intrigued by the "door ingress operated" alarm which I heard on a Pendolino waiting at the signal approaching Rugby on Saturday night. Does anyone know what conditions could cause this alarm? The use of the word "ingress" leads me to think that someone tried to get into the train from...

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