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Bring fixed?

What happened to 175111 which was a long term resident of Longsight with parts borrowed?

Apologies if this has been covered, but is there any plan to use these on the Holyhead - Cardiff services other than the Gerald? I'd been planning a trip from Chester to Swansea, but it seems to be a constant stream of 197s or even 150s. Sure there used to be Mk 4s a year or two back (my office...

Without a connection to Euston HS2 is the biggest White Elephant known to man. Nobody wants to get thrown out at OOC regardless of how good the connections to central London are.

219 seats in a Castle Class, 122 seating in a 175/0 and 190 in a 175/1. Castles for 175/1s is actually a 13% reduction in seats. Plus don't GWR own the Castles? Or some of them? If Angel have done a deal on the 175s (first few months free whilst they bed in for example), which is a typical...

Having just come back from some time in Cologne travelling out to Wuppertal and Dusseldorf whilst there I have to say German ticketing is confusing - you can buy a ticket from Cologne to Dusseldorf from the DB ticketing machine going out travelling on VRS, but have to go to the VRS one coming...

The OP was saying start and end some there

Problem is that geographically EP is on a line that doesn’t give itself for connectivity. Comments asking to extend the 777s to Helsby…..a village of under 5k with one service an hour to Manchester and one to……Liverpool (as of today). The northern service from Chester to Leeds typically runs...

Nearly as bad an idea as starting HS2 services at Old Oak Common. Re-open these stations for Kent residents yes, but to start and terminate international services - where 95% + of customers I would guess would be travelling to/from London (or connecting from there) - is frankly a bonkers idea...

Having just done Chester to Bristol last week with XC I’d have it as the worst operator in the country by an absolute mile. Makes Avanti look good. Trying to cram too many into 4 car voyagers we had people from standard in first and refusing to move between Birmingham and Cheltenham on the way...

Not unique. Whilst most take the Wrexham route the 2115 Cardiff to Chester also travels via Crewe See here There are a few quirky TfW services - 2108 Birmingham International to Manchester Piccadilly which essentially combines a Brum International to Chester via Shrewsbury and Wrexham and...

On the news now (multiple sources)

Anyone know what happened to 175111? This was the Christmas tree at longsight. Is it being repaired to go off lease? Where is it now?

Had an email this morning with a code for a SP return for Gold membership, so it is still a thing. Would be good to be able to check where you were up to of course.

First freight services through Lockerbie around 1630. Tesco/DRS before Av*nti https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:H08460/2023-12-27/detailed