South Wales ECS 5Z18

[ValleyLines142]

Hi guys,

Last week I noticed 150245 go past my house heading westbound towards Swansea at 0845. No booked services are due to pass except for a HST. Today 150256 did the same. I then looked at Open Train Times and noticed that this had the headcode 5Z18 (or something similar) and involved running ECS from Cardiff Canton to Llanelli, and then following it's movement I noticed it did three or four runs between Llanelli and Port Talbot and then continued back to Canton depot.

Does anybody know what movement this is? Driver training perhaps?

Thank you!

 

[PHILIPE]

Was it running via the District Line because if so it could have been route learning for Cardiff Drivers

 

[OxtedL]

Hopefully this rather elaborate link works and shows what I think are the trains in question in Timetables 2:

http://rail.staging.swlines.co.uk/?...&show_schedules=11&schedule_type=0&show_stp=1

 

[ValleyLines142]

PHILIPE - Yes, it does run via the District Line.

OxtedL - That is indeed the services.

Today, the services were worked by a 142.