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Mk4 set
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Although it was caped at Retford due to a train fault...
Yeah just seen return working was terminated at Retford, 67005 shut down.
Kieran1990
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Assume Class 91 faults are high after last weeks big freeze- hence to TnT of a MK4 set on KGX-LDS trip.
Is this the first time MK4 have been hauled by anything apart from Class 91/90?
Is this the first time MK4 have been hauled by anything apart from Class 91/90?
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No... 67s do it a fair bit as did HSTs back a long I believe
I would say this is the 1st time that I am aware where there has been no class 91 attached and just a 67 hauling in public use?
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Class 31s and 47s did back in the early 1990s. The “wrong kind of snow” caused chaos fairly soon after they were introduced. They changed the grills if i recall. I think BR used anything they could find to keep the service going.
Forgot as well class 89 was a regular on GNER.
0705 London kx - Leeds
1005 Leeds - London.
1305 London - Leeds
1605 Leeds - London
Was its prefered Daigram.
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Unlikely
Kite159
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There probably has been times when a 91 has had to be removed from a set due to a fault with a 67 going on the front to drag the coaches to complete the journey or to the next major station.
Although scheduled 67+Mk4s in public service probably is quite rare.
Although fair play to VTEC for attempting to run the service with a shortage of locos, other operators probably would have thrown in the towel and cancelled the service.
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Quoted elsewhere as 20 91s available for 26 diagrams, hence use of two Class 90s, Class 67s and HST hire-ins from EMT.
DarloRich
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I understand VTEC have had a really bad week reliability/availability wise. The snow and ice issues really hit them hard.
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Nope. 1D22 1635 London Kings Cross - Leeds on Sunday 22nd November 2015.
67016 Leeds by Chester025, on FlickrKieran1990
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Have to say they Class 67 suit the MK4s well!!Nope. 1D22 1635 London Kings Cross - Leeds on Sunday 22nd November 2015.
Wish I had been able to get down to Leeds to see this.. was Class 82 attached still at the other end?
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Class 82???? Only one of those in existence is preserved.
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Sometimes i wonder if people feel good about this kind of point scoring post. We all knew what was meant here so what were you trying to get out of this post?
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he means the DVT, which are all numbered 82xxx in the coach sequence
to quote from Wikidmedia
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- British Rail Mk3 (82101–82152)
- British Rail Mk4 (82200–82231)
- British Rail Mk3 (82301–82309)
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Why should i be? Unnecessary pendent posts like yours their adds no value to the forum, but i glad you got your “I know more that you buzz”. If you want to inform fair enough - but don’t do it in such a belittling way. I will leave it there - don’t want to upset the moderators as i have probably already overstepped the line.
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Accuracy is never to be sneezed at. Hopefully, the OP knows a little bit more now than he did previously.
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Nothing wrong with correcting someone, but the example above came across as needlessly rude.
Indeed.
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