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Thanks for this, a good reminder that it wasn't as simple a story as Gateway opening and taking away trade.

I wonder if we will ever see intermodal by rail from Thamesport again, or whether that's been thoroughly killed off by London Gateway.

Thanks - it was actually the carriage rather than the loco I was most interested in. Thank you - this is really useful. Thanks. The beluxtrains website mentioned above lets me find out exactly where these are. Looks like these, and the AM80 & AM86 are the only stock left with what I think of...

@MarcVD Any tips on where in Belgium to find these running at the moment? Are they fairly widespread? Also - last year I travelled from Aachen to Liege in the carriage just behind the loco here: Is that a bit of an anomaly or am I likely to find these elsewhere in the country?

According to reports on se-gen, it only got as far as Southease before failing - and has had to be dragged back to Newhaven Marine.

I'm fairly sure one of the stated aims of their recent fund raising excercises was to take operations in house though.

Why does it need an engine to rescue it - is it because it's not possible to run around in Lewes?

If you were to show up at Inverness station a bit before 5am, intending to get to edinburgh using the glasgow train departing at about 5.30, you might be tempted to get on the earlier "Edinburgh" service but this would be a mistake as it goes via Aberdeen and takes over an hour longer. I find...

Looks like only partially rebuilding the side to me - the core of the embankment remains as-is.

Does this mean that track on concrete slab is much less likely to buckle? Or does the point of failure just transfer to the rail fixings instead.

That's what I'd assumed. 1787437552 What I also noticed this morning is that the "up" line still seemed to be in place and continuous.

Photo of the situation as of a couple of hours ago. All carriages gone now. Can see how much they've built up the embankment on the west side.

Actually looking at other images I'm not sure those coaches had any logos on them? So maybe something else.

To reduce the opportunities for bad PR I imagine

Sure, but is it essentially the same operation but under new ownership - does EPR take over the locos etc that the "old" europheonix had?