Haha that's one of only three 450s I've got!
I've had 450002, 450543 and 450569!
And I thought I was doing poorly with the 450s, still needing 72 of them!
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Got my last 2009 stock yesterday - 11003/4 - completely out of the blue. Got my final D stock (again, as I made a mistake last time) - 7077 - thanks to Mojo, and got my second last FGW HST (third last overall) on Friday - 43153 - thanks to 43094.
Nearly got 43088 too but the journey I wanted to make was cancelled, so I was a bit gutted to say the least.
Congratulations on clearing the 2009 sets, I'm still in dire need of almost all of the lower numbered sets as I rarely see them in action. 11017-11094 I'm most of the way with now (about 30 of those to go IIRC, not counted lately), but 11001-11016 I need almost every single set for sight and haulage!
Gutting you missed 43088 in the end, fingers crossed you'll get it next time! If it helps, it took me a long time to get my last FGW HST power car, 43193, and that was with being pretty active on HSTs at the time!
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A tiny bit of room in a freezing vestibule (the rest of the vestibule being filled by Rugby fans from Twickenham), with one window open a little on the other side, combined with an absolute stagger from Paddington to Didcot (due to engineering works), taking an hour and 12 minutes from Paddington to Didcot, 55 minutes of that being from Pad to Reading.
Ouch! I've had worse I must admit, January 2009 I had an HST with failed heating on a cold winter's night from Cardiff Central to Reading. That was a journey way down on the fun scale!
Mind you, I've also had a journey from Edinburgh to Westerton in December 2008 on the seated sleeper, the ETS hadn't been hooked up properly so it was a very cold winter's ride until Ashill (or whatever it's called) when we stopped and got it hooked up properly! My worst 67-hauled journey ever!
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08/11/2014:
142011
150137 150148 150203 150207 150222 150226
156405 156420 156424 156425 156427 156441 156472
158810 158855
170308
175101 175103
185130
323227
350406 350410
390156
Most successful day in Manchester. Plenty of 150/156s knocked off (haven't really gone for any AN/NH 15x before) and the odd other unit. Massively pleased to finally clear the 185s by coming across 130 by accident
Also reduced by NT/EMT 158s to 5 and 3 required respectively.
4 350s and 3 170/3s and that's TPEx done
135 NT to go!
Thanks
A very successful day indeed! Congratulations on clearing the 185s, I still need 11 of them. Might have to do some MAN-MIA leaps again next time I venture north
Jealous you got 156420, one of my last AN 156s.
Does your Northern count include the 319s coming up, or the EMUs on the Yorkshire side? Doing very well either way!
