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Class 68s out of Liverpool Lime street

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Hi guys are the planned class 68s with mk5 coaches going to run out of lime street to scarborough, I know they were having training and staffing issues when Lime street was closed and I thought would ask as havent seen a loco out of Liverpool for a while.
 
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Hi guys are the planned class 68s with mk5 coaches going to run out of lime street to scarborough, I know they were having training and staffing issues when Lime street was closed and I thought would ask as havent seen a loco out of Liverpool for a while.
Lime St to Scarborough and Man Airport to Middlesbrough are the planned routes for the Mk5A sotck, afaik.
 

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All being well they shouldn't be too long assuming testing and training goes smoothly. They want to start introducing them from "Autumn 2018" but haven't specified a date.
 

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Hi any idea what route they will take
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For tests or in service?
Testing for the stock is planned for the WCML between Carlisle and Bletchley (and Longsight Euro* depot) but keeps being cancelled.
In service, they'll run on the existing routes for the two services.
 

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Liverpool-Scarborough via Newton le Willows, Manchester Victoria, Stalybridge, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Leeds, York and Malton.
Manchester Airport-Middlesbrough goes via Oxford Road to Victoria (via Ordsall Curve), and after York via Northallerton.
But there are always diversions via alternative routes for engineering work, and I expect they will go via the Calder Valley or Guide Bridge on occasion.
You can always find these things out for yourself in printed timetables or using journey planners or sites like realtimetrains.
The test routes from Manchester Longsight are different and take the sets onto the WCML for mileage accumulation runs, to either Bletchley or Carlisle.
 

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It is planned that the morning ECS moves from Longsight to Liverpool will be via CLC
That's a handy way of keeping up route coverage for staff in the event of planned diversions without having to routinely divert service trains. Not so great for PSUL (Passenger Services over Unusual Lines) bashers though!
 

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That's a handy way of keeping up route coverage for staff in the event of planned diversions without having to routinely divert service trains. Not so great for PSUL (Passenger Services over Unusual Lines) bashers though!

Not for PSUL if its ordinary service is four trains an hour each way! No rare track to be bashed...
 

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I saw 68031 at Liverpool South Parkway yesterday afternoon, it stopped on Platform 4 briefly before continuing to Lime Street.
 

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68010/25/27 currently stabled just outside Crewe, next to the line to Nantwich (Gretsy Green Up Loop maybe?)
 

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For tests or in service?
Testing for the stock is planned for the WCML between Carlisle and Bletchley (and Longsight Euro* depot) but keeps being cancelled.
In service, they'll run on the existing routes for the two services.
Any ideas when WCML testing will start? They aren't being cancelled, just not activated as they're runs as required
 

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Well I'm looking forward to it. Will it be TPE 68s or just DRS liveried?

I think it might be TPE liveried locos as a couple were delivered to Longsight a few days ago replacing the DRS blue ones.
 

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Well I'm looking forward to it. Will it be TPE 68s or just DRS liveried?
Will be 68020 in TPE livery , Tuesday and Wednesday should be run to Bletchley and back and if all goes well on Thursday night it should be MID-Stafford-Warrington-Stafford-MID
 

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Will be 68020 in TPE livery , Tuesday and Wednesday should be run to Bletchley and back and if all goes well on Thursday night it should be MID-Stafford-Warrington-Stafford-MID
Thursday night is for brake testing with stops from 100mph to zero and differant other speeds to zero on certain level straights between Crewe to Stafford and between Crewe and Winsford.
 

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Over on the TPE Mk5a thread, I can report that all XHTP allocated 68s (019-032) are now in TPE colours; 68028 has also been named. https://flic.kr/p/29DZee5
(Contrary to popular speculation that 028 was to be named "Splendid", 68028 has now revived "Lord President", which was previously borne by 87028)
 

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Over on the TPE Mk5a thread, I can report that all XHTP allocated 68s (019-032) are now in TPE colours; 68028 has also been named. https://flic.kr/p/29DZee5
(Contrary to popular speculation that 028 was to be named "Splendid", 68028 has now revived "Lord President", which was previously borne by 87028)
The lack of staying on-theme with the names will make a few folk twitch, I imagine... ;)

I do think TPE/DRS have missed a trick by not naming the locos after significant places along the route, or notable people from there. Names like "The Pennine Way"; "Herbert Chapman"; and the like would be nice... but that's just personal wibble I guess!
 

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The lack of staying on-theme with the names will make a few folk twitch, I imagine... ;)

I do think TPE/DRS have missed a trick by not naming the locos after significant places along the route, or notable people from there. Names like "The Pennine Way"; "Herbert Chapman"; and the like would be nice... but that's just personal wibble I guess!

Not at all. It would have been great PR, and an excuse for naming ceremonies / a chance to show off the new stock at different stations along the route. TPE need all the positve press they can get at the moment. Installing a mchine that blows wads of £20 notes out of the side of the train as it rolls along would probably be economically justifiable.
 

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It would have been great PR, and an excuse for naming ceremonies / a chance to show off the new stock at different stations along the route. TPE need all the positve press they can get at the moment.
Sounds great until somebody at the naming ceremony pipes up ‘Shouldn’t these have been in service 4 months ago?’ followed by ‘When are they going to enter service?’
 
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