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Also, different body profile means a different Doppler effect.

You can actually hear a very slight change in pitch as the two Mark 1s pass compared to the Mark 2s.

The 315 had a rather large area around the cab; could parcels have gone in that?

That was on the back of "The One Way Whizzo" with D1015 on the front. Is it a regular on these tours?

Generally a few months in advance or more.

The sleeping carriages on European Sleeper have already been modified to fit in with the new rules when they operated on previous lease arrangements. The AB30s are basically 1990s carriages due to their comprehensive rebuild.

You could walk right up to the border, but I believe there's a fence now.

Speaking of shortcomings, I'm not the world's biggest fan of the IC70 seats. But they're brilliant compared to what I had on the 390 back to London!

"The memory cheats" as the late John Nathan-Turner said.

Were MLVs much involved in this?

Very noisy cab area due to the thrash of the engine.

Isn't TPWS the upgraded version of AWS?

To be honest, I'd rather have seen the coaches scrapped than end up like that.

There were two rather sharp brake applications during the trip, which according to the announcement were due to the noise levels in the cab preventing the driver from noticing the TPWS buzzer had activated.

That was due to a move to regional printing, fuelled by industrial action by printers and rail workers.