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Roger B

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Roger B said:
Hi there. Just wondering if anyone knows what 317512 is doing today, please. Is it stabled somewhere, or working, and if so, which services. Thanks for your help.
Stabled at Cambridge. It hasn't run for weeks.
Thanks so much Bikeman. I saw a 317 or two tucked in the carriage sidings adjacent to / north of the station as I was arriving into into CBG from the north yesterday, but had no way of getting their numbers because 700048 was packed adjacent to them obscuring sight of them from the platform. So I took a walk today along Clifton Road, and there was 317512, coupled to 317343. Very grateful for your help - saved me a fruitless trip to Liverpool St / Bethnal Green in the hope of seeing it in the rush hour.
 
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It's interesting that 663/669 will be among the last to go, seeing as they were withdrawn considerably earlier than the rest of the subclass.
 

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21/04 Q paths Ely - Newport

5Q30 0905 via B Stortford
5Q76 0933 via Stevenage

5L10 0210 Doncaster W Yard - Ely Caped
 
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3973EXL

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STP 26/04

0429 Derby RTC - Ely
0933 Ely - Newport Docks
1711 Newport Docks - Derby RTC
 

Jamesrob637

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Not immensely relevant to 317s but very relevant to Newport: do no scrap moves take place on weekends?
 

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5Q76 0933 Ely to Sims Newport Docks - 26 April

Realtime Trains - 506E 0933 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup)

37884 with a single 317649, which made its one and only visit to Reading in style over the flyover… slightly late coming down from Acton (between the CrossRail terminator and the Didcot slow) and to avoid a reversing XC on the down relief it crossed at Kennet Bridge, and powered through Reading's platform 9 (down main) squeezed between the Swansea and the Worcester. A change from creeping through platform 12 (or 13).
 

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STP Q path 28/04

0933 Ely - Newport Docks
Reported to be planned as 660/668.

27/04 0706 RTC - Ely 57305/312 Tnt Barriers for 28/04 & 29/04
 
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3973EXL

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STP 29/04

0458 Ely - Eastleigh
57312 317669 with barriers.
 
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317669 has just set off on its last journey today as 5Q86 0458 Ely to Eastleigh Works, hauled by 57312.
 

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