Trains in awkward places-REVISITED

[VTPreston_Tez]

I think we could do with another one of these. By awkward places I mean some of my past experiences:
SWT at Man Picc/Liverpool Lemon (lol) Street
Northern at Exeter St. Davids
London Midland's loaning to Northern-at Leeds and whatnot
FGW at Waterloo
Merseyrail in Scotland?
Post yours here!

 

[Pen Mill]

East Coast HST power car at Exeter St Davids , subbing for X-C power car , is this what you mean ?

43290 on 13th August 2011

 

[VTPreston_Tez]

That's exactly what I mean, that would be ace to see as I have never seen an EC car in real life!

 

[tempests1]

Northen Spirit Maroon & Central Trains class 158's at Brighton on the Cardiff run. Centro (Regional Railways) class 150 seen at Portsmouth in 1995

 

[Lampshade]

How can you even have a train in an 'awkward' place? It's not really awkward if it's on the track, it'd be a different story if it was in a river.

 

[hacman]

BR mk3/SLE sleeper cars in Copenhagen Central!

They were leased to DSB until the Great Belt fixed link opened, when they were returned to the UK...

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/dk/car/night/WLABr_KbhH95_M.jpg - a rather nice picture of one in DSB Night livery here...

Jon

 

[sprinterguy]

East Coast HST power car at Exeter St Davids , subbing for X-C power car , is this what you mean ?

43290 on 13th August 2011

43310 also performed a similar duty at about the same time. It gave me quite a surprise seeing it passing through Birmingham on the rear of a Crosscountry set. And of course, complete GNER HST sets have travelled down to the South West and Newquay while on hire to Crosscountry in previous summers. Conversely, an FGW HST was recently on hire to East Coast, so travelled the length of their network, and other Crosscountry summer workings in pervious years have taken Midland Mainline HSTs as far as Newcastle and Edinburgh. Plus of course more recently East Coast have taken hire of two East Midlands HST sets, one of which has now been absorbed into the EC fleet permanently.
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How can you even have a train in an 'awkward' place? It's not really awkward if it's on the track, it'd be a different story if it was in a river.

Two class 31s on the North Circular then?
http://www.allticketsplease.co.uk/railphotos/pictures/281088-66_medium.jpg

 

[Wolvercoter]

East Coast HST power car at Exeter St Davids , subbing for X-C power car , is this what you mean ?

43290 on 13th August 2011

And here is 43290 on that very day:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolvercotewanderer/6038817402

Also, London Midland at Cardiff Central:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolvercotewanderer/6277521989

Shameless plugs for my own pics!

 

[Lampshade]

Two class 31s on the North Circular then?
http://www.allticketsplease.co.uk/railphotos/pictures/281088-66_medium.jpg

Yes that is quite an awkward place hock:

 

[saracen43]

In the late 70s i saw a class 26 in the middle road of the old Rugby station, to this day i have still no idea what it was doing there.

 

[CC 72100]

East Coast HST power car at Exeter St Davids , subbing for X-C power car , is this what you mean ?

43290 on 13th August 2011

Also seen EMT 43052 down in Devon on hire to XC

 

[Yew]

How about the 156's that EMT have got from Northern. Must be the first time lincoln has need a Northern (ish) 156 in years

 

[MK Tom]

Living in MK you often get bizarre EMUs coming through here on their way to/from Wolverton Works. 313s and 323s under their own power and DC units being dragged are quite common.

Silverlink's little massive problem with the 321s brought 313s to Northampton and beyond in 2004 if anyone remembers that (I do!). They looked a bit lost.

 

[NSEFAN]

South West Trains liveried 158s in Perth a couple of years back.

 

[sprinterguy]

The early eighties visits by HSTs to Glasgow Queen Street were pretty "awkward" in terms of squeezing the eight carriage sets into a platform! (See first photo)

The visit of an IC225 set to the West Coast main line was fairly unusual. (Second photo)

And finally, an APT-P set at Newcastle...several years before electrification of course. http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=20732

 

[sprinterguy]

South West Trains liveried 158s in Perth a couple of years back.

And Wessex Trains ones, too!

 

[150222]

I think we could do with another one of these. By awkward places I mean some of my past experiences:
SWT at Man Picc/Liverpool Lemon (lol) Street
Northern at Exeter St. Davids
London Midland's loaning to Northern-at Leeds and whatnot
FGW at Waterloo
Merseyrail in Scotland?
Post yours here!

Northern at Exeter? When?

I still think you need to change the title to "Trains in strange places". Why didn't you just re-open your last tread on this topic?

 

[Tim R-T-C]

During the West Coast closures back in 2004 (?) I saw a GW HST set in Manchester Piccadilly - got a nice photo on 35mm of it, will scan in eventually.

More recently just been enjoying the Centro liveried stock running in Yorkshire and the 322s on the Airedale line on which you can still make out some Scotrail branding.

 

[ert47]

Not really much of an odd place, but I've seen a South West Trains livered 455 at Selhurst Depot a while ago...

 

[richw]

All sorts of out of place liveried 150/1s were getting about down here in fgw land recently.

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[Peter Mugridge]

Two class 31s on the North Circular then?
http://www.allticketsplease.co.uk/railphotos/pictures/281088-66_medium.jpg

I think I remember that - wasn't it because some vandal released the handbrake in one of the locos?

I'll raise you the famous Montparnasse accident:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

 

[90019]

And Wessex Trains ones, too!

The Wessex ones were debranded though, but the SWT ones weren't.

I've got a photo somewhere of an SWT 158 coupled to an FSR 170 at Waverley, I'll need to see if I can dig it out.

 

[dubscottie]

Tube stock on the Forth Bridge..

http://www.railbrit.co.uk/images/36000/36189.jpg
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I think I remember that - wasn't it because some vandal released the handbrake in one of the locos?

I'll raise you the famous Montparnasse accident:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Train_wreck_at_Montparnasse_1895.jpg

Harcourt Street Dublin..

http://www.dublin.ie/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33283&d=1266368931

 

[wensley]

GC HST at Crewe...happened for at least the second time yesterday mind!

 

[swt_passenger]

How can you even have a train in an 'awkward' place? It's not really awkward if it's on the track, it'd be a different story if it was in a river.

Another forumer who needs a new dictionary.

Means 'unusual' but writes 'awkward'... :roll:

 

[David]

How about the 156's that EMT have got from Northern. Must be the first time lincoln has need a Northern (ish) 156 in years

Not really. Northern 156s made infrequent appearences on the Yorks and Lincs tour last year, along with 150s. Strangest 1 I can remember here in Scunthorpe is a SWT 158 in the bay waiting to form the stopper to Lincoln!

This was 2009 IIRC, on a day I was travelling upto Newcastle, I very nearly took it over the TPE as well.

 

[ushawk]

The FGW HST on the ECML a few months ago

 

[tempests1]

FGW HST's at London Waterloo during xmas blockades in recent years

 

[350desiro]

There was 2x LM 170's on the BHM-LLS service a few months ago, I wouldn't call it unusual as this route used to be everyday normalities for the 170's before 350's etc. Another case in what I would say is rare but not unusual as it operated in previous years but last month an EMT HST came to Crewe on a footex.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

There was 2x LM 170's on the BHM-LLS service a few months ago ...

Birmingham-LLanishen? Was that an extension to the XC service to Cadriff Central?

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