Rubbish - these are 40+ years old machines with out of date life expired electrical equipment. Spares availability must be "interesting" to say the least
Spares availability for 86501 finally condemned it to be converted back to 86608.
Just for confirmation, the 3 86's you saw being dragged were 86701, 86213 & 86702
Was gonna go Narborough station for a picture but then it started to blooming snow!!!, so I guess I will have to wait and see the pictures on Flickr!.
Anyone know there next move off Leicester and when?!
I managed to catch a video. I will upload to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQ5DqLQLjM