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    Variation in daily flight departures

    I used to fly on business when I was working and my recollection is that the flights to places I went were pretty much fixed for years and always departed at the same time. Just dropped relatives off for a flight to Gibraltar and BA490 which is a daily flight seems to depart at a different time...
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    Are incidents involving OLE just as common abroad as they are in the UK?

    Had a 50min delay in the back end of nowhere in Belgium due to supply issues last time I use Eurostar. I think its a British thing that the press bash the rail network as it seems most networks suffer delays regularly but go unreported in most countries.
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    WCRC Exemption from CDL (central door locking) regulations until September

    Not a fan of compartments personally but having been on a Saphos tour in a mk2 with no hoppers or vents and looking out of door windows strictly forbidden then I have to say I didnt hear or even see the steam loco that was hauling us and we were in the 3rd coach on the return. To be fair I may...
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    7Y32 between Chichester and Barnham

    Just happened to be following another train on Opentrack and spotted this apparently in a siding between Chi and Barnham. I think its the long disused gravel site. An aberration or something real ???
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    313216 is also scrapped. Two coaches on 31/7 and 1/8 and one coach (62608) which was held pending a possible cab saving went in September. 313218 never existed, any idea why 313018 wasnt converted, it certainly seems to have existed after the conversions to 3132xx were done judging by on line...
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    Class 313 preservation schemes and updates

    View from the Campbell Road bridge and 313201 was running up and down the Eastleigh site as far as the exit signal this afternoon. Unfortunately I had no camera but did anyone else see it ?
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    Class 317 withdrawals.

    Didnt realise they had worksplates. Where do they fit them as the sides curve down at the bottom so there doesnt seem to be any traditional chassis to bolt them to
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    Class 317 withdrawals.

    Its going on right now. I could see the unit from the bridge yesterday
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    Operations of the Waterloo-Exeter 50s (and loco diagramming in general)

    I used the train from Brighton just once (2 x 33's) but as there was no loco at the buffer stops of P2, was the entire consist reversed from Hove (unlikely) or did something pilot it to the station throat and then cut off via P3 leaving the train loco to reverse the short distance to P2
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Slight Mark Twain moment but the report of 62604 (unit 212) demise yesterday were slightly premature. It was still intact this morning but has now been reduced to lots of metal pieces although the rear bogie and part of the chassis can still be discerned this evening. I expect all will be gone...
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Two coaches of 206 were on death row 1st Oct, the other coach already scrapped Unit 202 being scrapped on 25th June, first coach was already positioned under the grab All 3 coaches of unit 208 were on the death row siding 21st Sept Railway magazine has been listing scrap dates of each coach
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Just 313201 and as of Friday evening a single coach 62604 from 313212. Everything else is gone. Edit to add coach 62604 from unit 212 was still there yesterday.
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Surprisingly coach 62604 from 313212 is still intact today although pillaged internally and sat on the death row line awaiting its fate.
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Slight tangent but I was wondering why the 313 horns have a very low tech mod that seems to be an old dish cloth tied on with wire. 314 and 315 images seem to have the same mod. All I can think of is that it alters the tone or decibel level or less plausibly as the cloth is white, at least...
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    OK, that makes sense and I suppose if 208 was still whole then what was in the scrap area would be the remains of the held back coach 62608 from unit 216 which was broken up on the 21st then although the rest of the unit went weeks ago. The unit scrapped prior to this coach was 205 so a...
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Where did you see 216 as personal observation and as reported in RM two coaches were cut up at the end of July. The third coach (62608) had been subject of a bid to preserve a cab but this was in the end abortive and passed through the scrap process mid September.
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    Does anyone know what the wheelbase of a bogie of a class 313 is?

    Hi, measured the bogie under the cab of a 313 and its 2600mm so wiki is correct in this case
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Nothing but twisted metal in the scrapping area last night. 313208 now lined up on death row presumably to be dealt with next week. 313206 would be next and 313215 has been moved round to the prepping area by the small shunter shed. I believe that just leaves 212 to be moved round and then...
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    Gatx units off route

    While I have seen the occasional red livery unit on west coastway, a journey I did out to Pevensey yesterday seemed to have a large number of Gatx units providing the service from Brighton to Ore/Eastbourne. Is this due to a shortage of Southern stock or a surplus of Gatx ?? Interestingly the...

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