1B98 on a Sunday evening.

[150249]

I'm on holiday in Wales and, whilst looking through what trains would pass me today, I saw this. 175101 connected to 158838. Does this often happen?

 

[ls2270]

I'm on holiday in Wales and, whilst looking through what trains would pass me today, I saw this. 175101 connected to 158838. Does this often happen?

I’m pretty sure that’s an error! I don’t think 175s can couple to anything other than other 175s, for passenger service purposes at least.

 

[asdirective]

I'm on holiday in Wales and, whilst looking through what trains would pass me today, I saw this. 175101 connected to 158838. Does this often happen?

It will never happen in real life, as they have different types of couplers.

This usually shows up when a 175 is allocated to a 15x diagram or vice versa. The train is allocated automatically to the diagram, which may throw up some anomalies like this. They are updated manually by the control teams throughout the day, as required, and with whatever swaps they want to make.

 

[150249]

It will never happen in real life, as they have different types of couplers.

This usually shows up when a 175 is allocated to a 15x diagram or vice versa. The train is allocated automatically to the diagram, which may throw up some anomalies like this. They are updated manually by the control teams throughout the day, as required, and with whatever swaps they want to make.

I’m pretty sure that’s an error! I don’t think 175s can couple to anything other than other 175s, for passenger service purposes at least.

Thank you both for the quick replies. I did think they were only compatible with other 175's