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Just 221111 yet to enter service with XC now.

Agreed, given that there'll still be an Aberdeen - Plymouth service and an Edinburgh - Penzance one, it's not particularly relevant as a factor. It's simply down to a retiming of the XC Penzance services.

Looking at Realtime Trains, five of the ex-Avanti sets were on SW-NE services yesterday, and the same again today (plus a sixth on a southbound working). Anecdotal travel experience over the past year suggests that the initial three have been fairly randomly distributed on 5 car workings during...

I thought that this might be worth sharing:

221117 is in service on the diagram commencing 1H13 today.

Thinking about it, you couldn't remove/replace all the trailer cars, or the train would be suffering from a critical lack of pantographs (and transformers) and be going nowhere.;) Removing the central trailer from a 9-car set (reverting to the form that the first 34 sets were delivered in) would...

Yeah it was only a comparatively small number of the XC services on that corridor that were HST worked, from what I can recall.

Via Basingstoke, Reading and Oxford (as per the current Crosscountry services to Bournemouth), originating or terminating at any one of Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle or Edinburgh at various times. HSTs were introduced onto certain Bournemouth (and Poole) services from July 1991, after sets had...

62 minutes 33 seconds between Paddington and Temple Meads for the televised 'Top of the Pops' HST run in August 1984.

It's a conventional AC electric loco, so yeah, no issues there, and is also TDM fitted (I presume still functional) to allow push-pull operation with a DVT. In fact the class 89 has worked with all of mark 1, 2, 3 and 4 coaches during it's short spells of active use on the main line, as well as...

Mark 3 coaches can only work over third rail lines if the bogies are fitted with short swing links, as the long swing links originally fitted to earlier batches are considered to have insufficient clearance. No issues with power cars themselves running over third rail routes.

Wrexham & Shropshire operated five trains each way per day at their peak, latterly reduced to four (and finally three, for the last six weeks of their operation).

And 221113 has entered traffic on the same diagram today. I've noted since 109 was re-introduced to service early last month, that this is a popular diagram for additional ex-Avanti units to enter service on - Helps that it's a Central Rivers starter, of course.

From recent discussions of the upcoming timetable, I believe it works out as only one extra service being introduced each way per day on that corridor from mid-May, requiring one extra unit.

Yeah, true, I was only referring to those visible in the video at Ely.

There's this fairly recent summary thread here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/what-if-any-stock-is-currently-unused.277861/ Class 465s and 466s withdrawn from Southeastern when class 707s were introduced. Class 180s withdrawn from East Midlands Railway's service as a cost saving measure...

Different test train - the NMT was 1Q17, though I see no passenger trains in the same direction that were delayed around that time. I can see three consecutive passenger trains in the opposite direction that were delayed around then, and the slightly late running Kingsbury - Lindsey empty oil...

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Similarly, the first class 47s withdrawn and scrapped for reasons other than collision damage were at around the 25 year mark. And many of the relatively large and successful modernisation plan-era fleets such as classes 25, 40 and 45 failed to make it to a quarter century at full strength.

That'd certainly be the simplest option, as per the Scotrail units on the West Highland line now.