Not something I've ever heard. Need any modified loco that works that's going, the one being done extra is an additional nothing will leave the fleet.What a great shame I missed it. As I understand it, it's on borrowed time with TfW?
Edit: Checking my haulages log I had it in 2022 actuallyStill only 022 I need.
It’s a bulky old fashioned pram I’m collecting for a mate
Only 2!! Jesus. I think I’d be rightly glared at for parking it in the doorway of a 150…
How are there so few? And also, what annoying timings for someone who lives in Swansea and works near Manchester and wants to enjoy at least one pleasant train…
Just make sure you have a backup plan in case the traincrew say no, if it really is that big. The railway doesn't really consider it it's role any longer, rightly or wrongly, to carry large items around the country.
Sadly looks as if one didn't show. Sets ended up all over the place from the fallen tree on Friday which seems to have ended up with all the plans out the window and neither sets coming off Canton yesterdayThank you, appreciated
I presume 67007 is not fitted with the Mk4 mods though? If it is then that is an epic livery for our sets!Tomorrow 1V91 Will be a unit as there's none in Holyhead with HD02 coming off Canton for the 10:52 Manchester which *should* then bring it back to 4 diagrams.
67007 is going from DB to cover and should go on HD03 which Will then release 67022 back into the operational pool, this is now planned to replace 008 on HD02 tomorrow and enter service on Tuesday on 04:54 from Crewe if all goes as planned.
Sadly looks as if one didn't show. Sets ended up all over the place from the fallen tree on Friday which seems to have ended up with all the plans out the window and neither sets coming off Canton yesterday
No it's not modified so Will just be there to power up HD03 when required and to act as Rescue and Recovery loco.
Thanks for both responses
is this coach on the lorry and other coaches going for scrap?
No. They're going to Bristol Barton Hill depot.
what for?
Maybe we will see a hd08 after all?
The more the merrier I say !
There are 2 planned to start tomorrow and 2 which are out of place to enter service in the afternoon now so 1W19/1V50 is planned to be HD07. Time will tell though!
Obviously it could change by next week, but today the Mk4s are at 8:30 and 12:30, one may be on the 16:30 but it's not on Realtime trains.
I’m waiting for it to pass the Crewe rail cam to decide if I have to buy dinner for the train or not!
Yes, twice, and it’s marvellous. They stop completely on the approach to Abergavenny though.
I have, it’s indeed very good. I had to get off at Shrewsbury and they packaged the cheese course up so I could take it off the train. Sadly, it’s the inconsistent provision that stops more people using it, I think.
Curtains removed? I thought they’d been added.
The black sets have never had curtains. They were supposed to be added at the same time as all thr branding but weren't.
Yes....three times now, always on 1W96, 17 14 Cardiff-Holyhead. On the first occasion, I was travelling with a friend from France and we both agreed that it was excellent quality and value. The second time I was travelling on my own and was equally-impressed. The third time I was travelling with my wife - on her birthday - and she was mightily impressed. There is one particular Holyhead-based chef (I know her name, but won't mention it on here) who really does go above and beyond the call of duty in trying to satisfy customers' likes and preferences within the limits of the ingredients available. I was very lucky that she was on duty on two of my three trips. She did, however, tell me that TfW were having great difficulty in recruiting and retaining travelling chefs....not least because of the very long working days involved.
Not yet, 3/4 times there hasn't been a chef and the other time there was a chef and food but the card machine wasn't working so they couldn't take any payments!
It’s also a very limited kitchen space. I’m a three-section-chef in a restaurant near Cardiff Bay (balanced alongside my journalism work) and am lucky that we have a really spacious kitchen. I could never cook happily in a space as confined as it is on those trains, and that’s before you add in the movement of the train.She did, however, tell me that TfW were having great difficulty in recruiting and retaining travelling chefs....not least because of the very long working days involved.
Sold or for work to bring into service with TFW anyone know?