Trivia: How many different classes in one station in a day?

CheshireCrusty · 22 Oct 2019

Eccles1983 said:
142,150,156,158,319,323,195, Northern
175, 68 TfW
390, 221 - virgin/xc
185,350 - TPE
HST/153 - EMT

Can't think of anymore for Piccadilly.

On my initial list, I added:
XC: 220
Northern: 331, 153 (used to strengthen some services)
Plus (if appropriate):
Metrolink: M5000

I had also double counted TFW 158's as well as Northern's, and saw a TPE 397 (but that was not in passenger service).

As noted above - the unusually large number of types is due to the fleet changeover at Northern and will decrease.

Still it does appear Leeds has the largest number of types in a single day.

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Intercity Exec · 22 Oct 2019

sprinterguy said:
185s will still be working Manchester - Hull services through Leeds.

And further to this point, HSTs will still serve Leeds with CrossCountry and EMR

sprinterguy · 22 Oct 2019

Intercity Exec said:
And further to this point, HSTs will still serve Leeds with CrossCountry and EMR

Yeah, good point.

Mag_seven · 22 Oct 2019

Some of the stations mentioned also have freight trains running through them e.g. Manchester Piccadilly. So for there we could add Class 66/86/90.

Mag_seven · 22 Oct 2019

Kite159 said:
CS:
92+Mk5s

Also the occasional use of a Class 73 on the ECS.

4REP · 23 Oct 2019

sprinterguy said:
185s will still be working Manchester - Hull services through Leeds.

Yes of course forgot about Hull to Manchester

Revaulx · 23 Oct 2019

sprinterguy said:
185s will still be working Manchester - Hull services through Leeds.

How about the Hudds stoppers? I presume they will still be 185s. And I don’t think all the Middlesbrough ones are going to be 68s.

E100 · 23 Oct 2019

Newcastle has just 11.

Northern
142
156
158

LNER
91
43
800
801

TPE
185
802

XC
220
221
43 (already counted in LNER)

As a bonus - numerous misc freight - regularly see 37/56/60/66/67/68/70/88 and 57's on approx twice a month charters

I don't know York well enough but they should have all the above plus a few additional types. Carlisle may also do quite well.

pdeaves · 23 Oct 2019

NewSt said:
Apologies, I stand corrected.

Here's one from today: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P38258/2019-10-23/detailed. It's effectively a Bristol-Manchester starting back from Cardiff (also, incidentally, being one of the few XC calls at Filton and passing through Filton again later!).

61653 HTAFC · 23 Oct 2019

Revaulx said:
How about the Hudds stoppers? I presume they will still be 185s. And I don’t think all the Middlesbrough ones are going to be 68s.

Off-topic, but essentially the 185s will run:

MIA-Cleethorpes;
MAN-Hull;
MAN-LDS (stopper);
...and the balance of Middlesbrough and Scarborough services which don't get Mk5As. Along with possibly/probably taking over LIV-NOT from EMR.

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