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BillStampy
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Any ideas what this 67 is?
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Realtime Trains | 0Z14 1610 Cardiff Canton Sidings to Crewe T.M.D. (E) | 15/01/2024
Real-time train running information for 0Z14 1610 departure from Cardiff Canton Sidings to Crewe T.M.D. (E) on 15/01/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
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67014. Most of the TfW light engine moves do have the loco number as rhe last 2 digits of the headcode.Any ideas what this 67 is?
Realtime Trains | 0Z14 1610 Cardiff Canton Sidings to Crewe T.M.D. (E) | 15/01/2024
Real-time train running information for 0Z14 1610 departure from Cardiff Canton Sidings to Crewe T.M.D. (E) on 15/01/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
67025 is also heading down on this. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:36630/2024-01-15/detailed
BillStampy
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Cheers mate!
JakeMurphy
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should be on 1W96 tonight hopefully a MK4!
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Still planned for 67025+HD05
JakeMurphy
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Great - thank you
Jamesrob637
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Any 5-car sets out this week?
Potentially. Both HD01 and HD03 are nearing the end of exams. HD01 has some electrical gremlins on the additional coach which require some investigation before it's allowed out and HD03 requires a shakedown run after so long out of use.
67021 is currently powering HD03 so it'll need a loco change before it can go anywhere too as that's not a TfW modified one.
HD07 is also now at Crewe for lengthening and exam after having a run via Chester and Shrewsbury this morning to turn it.
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Would this be what ran 5T01 this morning?
Ahh that’s what it was doing ! I had been wondering why it was heading from Crewe through Chester this morning.
Keeping fingers crossed that we see 3 sets get out with 5 coaches in fairly short succession. But as always, we shall see.
Western 52
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That's a lot of fuel used to turn a train. Can't it turn via the triangle near Gresty Bridge at Crewe?
MP393
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Yes, it was with 67015
Not with a TfW driver, you’d have to hire one in/use a route conductor for that. As simple of a move it may be on paper!
LNW-GW Joint
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Or even on the Chester triangle, right outside the TfW/CAF depot...
Believe it was also a shakedown run for the 67.
These type of runs are rarely wasted either and normally end up used for various bits of training and/or testing too.
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Only Chester drivers sign that, and they don't sign 67s. It's TfW policy that only loco qualified drivers can pilot the 67, so you can't even get around it that way - plus you'd need to change ends by walking trackside in a 3rd rail area which is never a great idea either.
Can't say for the exam specifically but it's looking like next week is now more likely than this week for the 5 cars.
Sure I could copy and paste that most weeks the way its going!
To amend this post.
HD01 is now ready to go, it's planned for a final test run tomorrow from Crewe to Hereford and back and if that's successful it will enter service as a 5 car set on Saturday working:
07:09 Crewe to Cardiff
10:52 Cardiff to Crewe
15:11 Crewe to Cardiff
18:55 Cardiff to Crewe
HD01s test run now running https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:37643/2024-01-19/detailed so looking promising for tomorrow.
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voithgearbox
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Looking at RTT there seem to be RRPs running MAN-CRE so would runs mentioned above be CRE-CDF then?
TrainTrackJack
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67008 + HD06 failed at Moorland Road Junction leaving Cardiff with 1W57, 1Z99 being sent for from Canton.
Western 52
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I can see on Traksy it's still there. Possibly no heating, depending on the nature of the failure?
197107 picking up the diagram starting from Crewe.
Western 52
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1Z99 is there now. Another 67 I suppose?
FrodshamJnct
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Yes, 67007.
Yes apologies, my mistake. Diagram looks to be exactly that just terminating Crewe rather than Manchester.
First class is very nice - luckily the 1630 Manchester to Swansea was a MK4, i heard on a Facebook group that another MK4 had to be rescued outside Cardiff . I waited until this morning to book my ticket after checking RTT and hoped it wouldn't change. It goes to show how quickly things can change.
The 1649 Cardiff to Manchester was substituted for a two car 197.
The 1649 Cardiff to Manchester was substituted for a two car 197.
Is this diagram still expected to run tomorrow?
The bits between Cardiff and Crewe, yes thats still down for 5 car HD01. No TfWs Crewe to Manchester this weekend but it just shunts to the depot in the Downtime so the rest of the diagram is the same.
There's also a 4 car set planned to be out and scheduled to work
04:35 Cardiff to Crewe
09:11 Crewe to Cardiff
12:52 Cardiff to Crewe
17:11 Crewe to Holyhead
The other diagram will be substituted due to 67008s failure earlier
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Thank you.
Any reason why the 0532 Swansea has been a separate service between Swansea and Cardiff and Cardiff to Manchester this week?