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Well it I was confident it was a turbo but I backed the wrong horse as usual!

Class 166?

Menston is correct!

Neither I'mafraid.

Thanks, my first thought was New Barnet but then I visited Biggleswade station yesterday and it looked the same! Here's another.

Biggleswade?

In the mid 1980s there was a 1S61 0735 Cardiff to Glasgow/Edinburgh which was called 'The Principality'.

I used to work those from time to time, it was XX30 from Southampton and XX55 into Poole, XX52-XX17 in Brockenhurst.

444036 No allocation found. 444045 1P53 1700 Waterloo-Portsmouth, 1915 back. 450025 No allocation found. 450089 No allocation found. 450111 5T10 04+53 Northam-Eastleigh Works.

If you take a 12 car from Portsmouth to Eastleigh every stop from Fratton to Hedge End has a short platform and they are all self dispatch. At Portsmouth Harbour anything more than a five car cannot be safely dispatched hence the blanket rule, Portsmouth & Southsea has three curves and is a...

At London Waterloo it's mandatory platform staff despatch, same at Portsmouth Harbour and Portsmouth & Southsea (high level only). Stations such as Southampton, Woking and Basingstoke will almost always have despatch staff available but we can self despatch if required. Surprisingly Clapham...

SWR don't sign platform five at Basingstoke although that may have changed since the Salisbury-Readings started. In some respects it does already happen. Some years ago I was the guard on a train that ended up with a smashed windscreen to the point that it was impossible for my driver to see...

Yes, 57303 dragged 458526 through Southampton at 1853 yesterday and I noted the same ensemble in the station yard at Eastleigh this evening.

And even with my free (SWR staff) travel we go by road simply for the convenience factor.

Had I seen it earlier I would've got it quickly as it's on my route card!

It was unintentional! Blairhill is correct though.

Fell After Former Leader.

Swinderby?

701005 had a test run to Southsea in August 2020 and 701019 spent Christmas 2022 in Southsea Down Carriage Sidings.

377620 got trapped in Portsmouth over Easter in 2015 during a four day blockade between Havant and Chichester and spent the time running shuttles between Havant and Portsmouth Harbour.