TRIVIA: Anywhere a Sprinter Family Train Hasn't Been?

route101 · 21 Jun 2019

Cathcart circle ,west side ? Im sure diverted Shotts have been through Mt florida

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d9009alycidon · 21 Jun 2019

GrimShady said:
Dover?

Dover and beyond!!

On 16th June 1989,156 502 in full Strathclyde Orange and Black livery was driven under its own power from the Railway Technical Centre all the way to Holland & back via the SNCF train ferry from Dover Western Docks to Dunkerque from where the unit was driven through France and Belgium to the Dutch border at Essen and on to Utrecht with help from SNCF, SNCB and NS train crews.

d9009alycidon · 21 Jun 2019

hexagon789 said:
While 156s have done Glasgow-Kilwinning-Ayr-Girvan/Stranraer, have any been on the Largs branch? Or on the Gourock/Wemyss Bay lines for that matter?

Largs branch as far as Ardrossan South Beach has been done on this railtour, (edit) also confirms Bellgrove to Coatbridge Sunnyside
https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/90s/920830bl.htm

Don't think any have been through Central Low Level

mallard · 21 Jun 2019

d9009alycidon said:
Dover and beyond!!

On 16th June 1989,156 502 in full Strathclyde Orange and Black livery was driven under its own power from the Railway Technical Centre all the way to Holland & back via the SNCF train ferry from Dover Western Docks to Dunkerque from where the unit was driven through France and Belgium to the Dutch border at Essen and on to Utrecht with help from SNCF, SNCB and NS train crews.

There's a picture of it near Headcorn on Flickr.

hexagon789 · 21 Jun 2019

GrimShady said:
Very good question!

Thus far, I've not found anything to say they did but there could be a tour or something.

hexagon789 · 21 Jun 2019

d9009alycidon said:
Largs branch as far as Ardrossan South Beach has been done on this railtour, (edit) also confirms Bellgrove to Coatbridge Sunnyside
https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/90s/920830bl.htm

Don't think any have been through Central Low Level

And as soon as I posted my message above; I notice this! :lol:

Thanks for confirming they have!

XC victim · 21 Jun 2019

Have they ever reached Marylebone?

nlogax · 21 Jun 2019

Bletchleyite said:
It's amazing to think there was enough slack in Euston operations back then that you could waste it on a 2-car DMU.

See also;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/50750205@N07/13039423644

(photo of Centro 150102 at Euston, Oct 2005 - John Ray)

thenorthern · 22 Jun 2019

Island Line on the Isle of Wight.

imagination · 22 Jun 2019

Unless there were some odd services in the very early days of the class that I don't know about they have never operated scheduled services on:
Any of the Thames valley branches off the GWML
Reading to Westbury
Wootton Bassett to Bristol Parkway
Oxford to Worcester

Sprinter107 · 22 Jun 2019

imagination said:
Unless there were some odd services in the very early days of the class that I don't know about they have never operated scheduled services on:
Any of the Thames valley branches off the GWML
Reading to Westbury
Wootton Bassett to Bristol Parkway
Oxford to Worcester

150/1, 150/2, 153, 155, 156 and 158 have all operated scheduled services along the Oxford to Worcester line. The 158 was for a very short time, and if I remember rightly it was on a Friday evening when a 158 which was borrowed from Tyseley was returning. This was used on the Bicester Town to Bristol service. I think it was scheduled to come across that line as ecs, but remember at least twice it came across in service.

83G/84D · 22 Jun 2019

What Sprinter types worked into Paddington?

The exile · 22 Jun 2019

imagination said:
Unless there were some odd services in the very early days of the class that I don't know about they have never operated scheduled services on:
Any of the Thames valley branches off the GWML
Reading to Westbury
Wootton Bassett to Bristol Parkway
Oxford to Worcester

Following a collision in the Severn Tunnel on 7th December 1991, 150 274 was employed on at least one Swindon to Bristol Parkway shuttle - so that's Wootton Bassett to Westerleigh Junction covered.

JamesC357 · 22 Jun 2019

The Southend Victoria branch?

jopsuk · 23 Jun 2019

imagination said:
Unless there were some odd services in the very early days of the class that I don't know about they have never operated scheduled services on:
Any of the Thames valley branches off the GWML
Reading to Westbury
Wootton Bassett to Bristol Parkway
Oxford to Worcester

About as much a Sprinter as an NIR Class 450, but did the Class 210s operate any of those during their short tenure in service?

AndyW33 · 23 Jun 2019

imagination said:
Unless there were some odd services in the very early days of the class that I don't know about they have never operated scheduled services on:
Any of the Thames valley branches off the GWML
Reading to Westbury
Wootton Bassett to Bristol Parkway
Oxford to Worcester

Other posters have shown that Sprinters did indeed operate Wootton Bassett to Bristol Parkway and also Oxford to Worcester. But during the stay of 150001 and 150002 at Reading did they never reach Newbury at least? I know they were intended for Reading-Basingstoke, but are 150s cleared for the Berks and Hants line - certainly they'd not be foul of anything on a route then routinely operated by 165/166s and HSTs, so clearance would be a paper exercise, but...

imagination · 23 Jun 2019

Sprinter107 said:
150/1, 150/2, 153, 155, 156 and 158 have all operated scheduled services along the Oxford to Worcester line. The 158 was for a very short time, and if I remember rightly it was on a Friday evening when a 158 which was borrowed from Tyseley was returning. This was used on the Bicester Town to Bristol service. I think it was scheduled to come across that line as ecs, but remember at least twice it came across in service.

Yeah I found out about Sprinters being used between withdrawal of the 117s and introduction of the 165s/166s on the Cotswold line rather than the latter directly taking over from the former as happened on various other lines shortly after making the post but forgot to edit it.

jopsuk said:
About as much a Sprinter as an NIR Class 450, but did the Class 210s operate any of those during their short tenure in service?

According to Wikipedia, 210001 was used on services to Newbury but as you say it isn't really a Sprinter.

The sprinter shuttle from Swindon to Bristol Parkway really is an oddity, though.

Peter Mugridge · 23 Jun 2019

imagination said:
According to Wikipedia, 210001 was used on services to Newbury but as you say it isn't really a Sprinter.

I had both 210 001 and 210 002 for haulage on the Berks and Hants line to Newbury.

gg1 · 23 Jun 2019

The cross city line services were solely in the hand of 1st gen DMUs prior to electrification so if we're excluding the 950, Barnt Green to Redditch is a likely candidate. Aston to Lichfield is less likely due to it's occasional use as a diversionary route.

Sprinter107 · 23 Jun 2019

gg1 said:
The cross city line services were solely in the hand of 1st gen DMUs prior to electrification so if we're excluding the 950, Barnt Green to Redditch is a likely candidate. Aston to Lichfield is less likely due to it's occasional use as a diversionary route.

The Cross City line has been worked by 150/1, 150/2, 156, and 158. Not sure about 153. Seem to remember a distant memory of an evening train to Redditch containing a 153.

Parallel · 23 Jun 2019

imagination said:
According to Wikipedia, 210001 was used on services to Newbury but as you say it isn't really a Sprinter.

The sprinter shuttle from Swindon to Bristol Parkway really is an oddity, though.

I recall a few summers ago due to the line between Trowbridge and Bath being closed, there were some late evening services that ran from Cardiff to Portsmouth(? - Might have not got that far) that travelled via Bristol Parkway and Swindon. These would have been formed of 158s or 150s.

PHILIPE · 23 Jun 2019

Have Sprinters ever been to Merseyrails Birkenhead North EMU Depot because if they haven't been there in the past, they have this week, TFW 150262 today as an example.

Strathclyder · 23 Jun 2019

alangla said:
Definitely been to Milngavie- there was a spell in the 2000s I think where Knightswood Tunnel was shut for engineering & the Maryhill services ran through to Milngavie.

Aye, there's a pic out in the interwebz of a Carmine/Cream 156 (I think. Need to go dig it out) at Milngavie dating from the late 90s/early 2000s.

Dalreoch to Balloch is a pretty good shout. Can't remember one ever venturing down there. Think the same can be said of Craigendoran-Helensburgh Central & the Hamilton Loop/Larkhall branch (unless there's an obscure pic out there just waiting to be found to prove me wrong lol)? Don't recall any Sprinters visiting any of these lines, at least not recently.

E: found the image. Faint memory proved correct, it was a Carmine/Cream 156 lol

route101 · 23 Jun 2019

Strathclyder said:
Aye, there's a pic out in the interwebz of a Carmine/Cream 156 (I think. Need to go dig it out) at Milngavie dating from the late 90s/early 2000s.

Dalreoch to Balloch is a pretty good shout. Can't remember one ever venturing down there. Think the same can be said of Craigendoran-Helensburgh Central & the Hamilton Loop/Larkhall branch (unless there's an obscure pic out there just waiting to be found to prove me wrong lol)? Don't recall any Sprinters visiting any of these lines, at least not recently.

E: found the image. Faint memory proved correct, it was a Carmine/Cream 156 lol

Shotts services could of been diverted via Hamilton Loop?

Lanark Branch could be another .

IanXC · 23 Jun 2019

I can't think they've operated passenger services between Chathill and Dunbar?

route101 · 23 Jun 2019

IanXC said:
I can't think they've operated passenger services between Chathill and Dunbar?

Was there not ATN services to Berwick?

driver_m · 23 Jun 2019

If not already, you can add Birkenhead to the 150 list. One ran through to there on some proving run recently. May have been posted elsewhere on this site, but it definitely ran.

Strathclyder · 23 Jun 2019

route101 said:
Shotts services could of been diverted via Hamilton Loop?

Quicker to divert them via Carmyle, Whifflet and Mossend Yard (rejoining the normal route at Mossend North* Junction), I would've thought? Unless there's a driver/route knowledge or route clearance issue preventing the use of Mossend North* Junction in this way that I'm unaware of? Answers on a postcard, please.

*: Or is it Mossend East Junction in this context? Lord, I'm rubbish at remembering which is which lol

PHILIPE · 23 Jun 2019

driver_m said:
If not already, you can add Birkenhead to the 150 list. One ran through to there on some proving run recently. May have been posted elsewhere on this site, but it definitely ran.

Today, Post #83. The more posts the merrier

driver_m · 23 Jun 2019

PHILIPE said:
Today, Post #83. The more posts the merrier

Next time I will actually look. There’s some minor thing going on with my TOC so I was kind of not concentrating properly!!! :oops:

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