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sjpowermac said:
Any idea which end the loco is on? Any information greatly appreciated:)
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Consist suggests east end. It's just gone into Holgate and seems set to pick up it's westbound path from there.
 
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Spartacus said:
Consist suggests east end. It's just gone into Holgate and seems set to pick up it's westbound path from there.
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Thank you very much and yes, just noticed the westbound pop up, a bit unsporting not to run it into the station;)
 
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15:45 MID-Scarborough confirmed as CAPED at York Holgate Loop 171 late having set off from Manchester 244 late.

I suspect it was getting a bit late to run down to Scarborough due to closing times for the various signal boxes.

68026 on set 6.
 
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Forgot to mention, 68026 is on the east end of the train and picking up the 21:35 Scarborough-Marsden in its path from York.

Fingers crossed for better luck, and a picture tomorrow:)
 
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sjpowermac said:
15:45 MID-Scarborough confirmed as CAPED at York Holgate Loop 171 late having set off from Manchester 244 late.

I suspect it was getting a bit late to run down to Scarborough due to closing times for the various signal boxes.

68026 on set 6.
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68030 had to be swapped off Set 6 at MID after a brake loop issue which caused issues with the test run on Monday night.
 
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Erniescooper said:
No because it was a locomotive issue but it wasn’t a Fault free running train anyway
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Many thanks for all the insights, always greatly appreciated.

I’m guessing that perhaps TP09 is the ‘mileage accumulator’ and TP06 is ‘testing mods’, maybe to ASDO. It would make sense to save the large number of miles in the bag for TP09, but I’m probably completely wrong!
 
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sjpowermac said:
Many thanks for all the insights, always greatly appreciated.

I’m guessing that perhaps TP09 is the ‘mileage accumulator’ and TP06 is ‘testing mods’, maybe to ASDO. It would make sense to save the large number of miles in the bag for TP09, but I’m probably completely wrong!
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Spot on.
 
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Even though I live near Stalybridge, I think that last night was the first time I've seen a full set with work and whatnot. Even then, this was only because it was running 4 hours late

68026 hauling a set through Manchester Victoria 27/03/19

68026 'Enterprise' by Mark Nulty, on Flickr
 
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mjn said:
Even though I live near Stalybridge, I think that last night was the first time I've seen a full set with work and whatnot. Even then, this was only because it was running 4 hours late

68026 hauling a set through Manchester Victoria 27/03/19

68026 'Enterprise' by Mark Nulty, on Flickr
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Great to see a picture of a set at Man Vic, I bet that sounded nice.
 
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Pics from York of this evening’s 15:45 MID-Scarborough.

The DT displaying the correct destination:
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Helpful notice on the coach window:
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Waiting, waiting, waiting..., but hopefully not too much longer;)
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A Leeds to Manchester set has ran tonight but a Liverpool yo York run is down as “run as required” with no running updates
 
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Fez14 said:
A Leeds to Manchester set has ran tonight but a Liverpool yo York run is down as “run as required” with no running updates
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I think there’s only ever one test/mileage run at anyone time. As far as I could tell, this week’s activity was:

Monday
68026 ‘Enterprise’ plus set 9 mileage run MID-Carlisle-Bletchley-MID

Monday/Tuesday overnight
68030 ‘Destroyer’ plus set 6 test run
MID-Eccles-York-Eccles-MID

Tuesday/Wednesday overnight
68030 ‘Destroyer’ plus set 6 test run
MID-Crewe-Liverpool
Liverpool-Crewe
Crewe-Liverpool
Liverpool-Crewe
Crewe-MID

Wednesday/Thursday night
68026 ‘Enterprise’ plus set six test run
Departed MID 244 late with 15:45 to Scarborough, caped at York Holgate Loop (probably due to operating hours of manual signal boxes on the Scarborough line). Then:
York-Marsden
Marsden-Leeds
Leeds-MID

Thursday/Friday night
68026 ‘Enterprise’ plus set six test run
MID-Scarborough
Scarborough-MID

Always happy to be corrected if anyone has any alterations.

So quite a mixed week from an enthusiasts point of view, I was at York for Wednesday evening’s run but saw the train turn back in Holgate! Hopefully it was a successful week for the various tests:)
 
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68020 ‘Reliance’ at York with shadow selfie.
https://flic.kr/p/24Kk5GV

I hope there’s some test runs next week, I’m almost out of ideas for photographing 68s stood in platform 2 at York;)
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absolutelymilk said:
Any idea roughly how many miles that was in total?
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The previous week TP09 had done four days of MID-Carlisle-Bletchley-MID so that’s just over 2000 miles. Add on the trip last Monday, and providing all the miles were fault free, that set would be on over 2500 miles.

I think the runs with TP06 seem to be to test various modifications, so the miles won’t be that important.

From a post earlier it seems once the mods have proved successful they can then be applied to TP09.

I must emphasise that I don’t have any inside knowledge, just observations, and a few lucky guesses that others have confirmed!
 
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I passed a 68 with a rake of MK 5A's at the depots near Manchester Piccadilly earlier in the day. They look rather good if I do say so! They would look better, however, was I given the chance to make my journey on one ;)
 
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