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    Odd platform allocation Manchester Piccadilly

    Hi all, Yesterday I was waiting for a train on platform 13 at Manchester Piccadilly and an announcement was made that a delayed EMT service to Liverpool Lime St would be arriving on platform 13b (heading towards Oxford Road), which it then did! At the time there was a FTPE train, also to...
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    Standing in First Class

    Hi, Sorry if this has been covered but whilst travelling on a rather crowded FTPE service today (Class 185) I was standing in the small standard class section behind first and noticed people standing in the first class section. This got me wondering as to whether or not passengers require a...
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    Arriva Class 175 billowing smoke!

    Hello again all! Another odd thing seen at Stockport this morning, at around 0910 I came onto platform 2 to find an Arriva Trains Wales Class 175 in platform 3 literally billowing smoke out across the station and making a dreadful rattling sound like a jack-hammer on concrete. As far as I...
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    Broken down Virgin Pendolino at Stockport?

    Hello again, It seems this week has become one for unusual sightings for me, I was passing through Stockport at 16:40 today and as we pulled into platform 4 I noticed an empty Pendolino stopped on the furthest of the two lines to the side of the platform (Goods loops?). One more interesting...
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    Class 66 through Cheadle Hulme

    Hello all, Around 1pm today I was boarding 323232 at Cheadle Hulme heading towards Stockport when a lone Freightliner Class 66 went past in the opposite direction on the line towards Wilmslow and Crewe. In the past 1 and a half years during which I have been using Cheadle Hulme Station at...

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