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Stretching that logic a little further 180110 is temporarily a Class 144!

HST lamp bracket mount is central and visible on the nose cone and the bracket itself is kept in the guards compartment. It is different to most as the part which inserts into the bracket is angled at 45 degrees. Regarding other stock 321s have a flip down bracket under the ‘bonnet’ as an...

The loss of air pressure you allude to releases a spring that applies the brakes. As such, air pressure is what is preventing said spring from applying them. In reverse, on restarting the engines the raising air pressure will ease off the spring and at the same time be supplying the brake...

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

I believe it was a fleet of 5 307s that ran following electrification of the Doncaster to Leeds line until the 3 321/9s were ready for traffic. I think it was some time in 1993 that the 321/9s were introduced.

Technically the locomotives are owned by Beacon Rail and hired to GBRf, I mention it as it hasn't been widely reported like this in the media.

Class 185s have heavily detuned engines and aren't running at 750hp at all, they were rated at under 600hp last I heard. The advantages of this are fuel saving, less heat to dissipate and reduced engine wear. This is the reason the QSK19 engines on Class 185s are prone to hunting while others...

I'm sorry to disagree with you but certainly for London to Sheffield/Nottingham, Class 222s are definitely going, according to the ITT, by the last day of 2023. It stipulates that such services are to be run by new trains, capable of operating in electric mode and an alternative power source...

Exactly that, due to the fact that during operation with Midland Mainline the Driver performed the door release it was their carriage which remained locked as it was a simpler system to employ than the train looking back and only sending the signal to 4 carriages. In the modern era of...

The 170/1s did have door deselect from new, but as you correctly state it wasn't the guard form that you describe, instead it was driver operated and as such a driver was required to go to a stop board located beyond the platform, deselect and release the doors, this left the doors on the...

Exactly that, paperwork has never been done, indeed HEx do still run units in pairs. The unit itself is fully capable of operating in multiple were it allowed to.

To fully answer your original question, there is no restriction on 321s regarding pantographs raised and indeed 333s can physically run in multiple

There is no approval for 333s to run with more than 1 pantograph raised. I understand that the original thinking was that they would only ever work alone except for rescue purposes so it was deemed unnecessary.

The units aren't there to just 'get' and there is a cost in procuring a fleet of trains, considering how tight the franchises are run financially it would be difficult to afford swapping out a secondhand reengineered train for a brand new unit x19. Part of the appeal to the train companies of...

I had a quick look online and found reference to 56303 having been on route learning duties and due to work the Barrington spoil working on 22 May 2018 (Source:Class56Group website referred to by another Poster earlier in the thread). At some stage since then it has been involved in some form...

I I believe the only job 'on the books' is the Barrington spoil working. The fact only 1 locomotive is operational at the moment does limit them somewhat of course. We wait to see whether 56303 is repairable/was sold to GBRf, if the plan was for it to remain in the fleet maybe there was a...

DCR was sold by BARS, the new owners took on 56091, 56103 and 56303. The rest were sold on or sent to preserved railways. 56103 is currently their only operational locomotive and there have been some suggestions that 56303 was sold to GBRf, whether that was before or after it was collided with...

You are right about the Voyagers not having tilt mechanisms, only Super Voyagers have the TASS system fitted. CrossCountry locked out the tilt system on their Super Voyagers early on in the franchise to boost unit reliability as it was said to be a fairly regular cause of failure. I had heard...

It won't make a difference where a 153 is in the mix from the point of view of traction training as 153 handling training wouldn't be required either way (same as 156 in terms of tread brakes, 5 position brake handle and 8 position throttle handle). Wherever in the formation you put the 153 the...

Further to the other points made regarding this, the stock simply isn't as available as it appears to be. The Class 86s have been broken for parts one by one to keep Freightliner 86s in action so none are now left that could be used. The 90s and 92s are operated by DB, who don't have a...