Recent content by iandelg

Will be in London today in the hope of getting last-of-classes for haulage, so any news on the workings of 321304 and 700122 would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I am in Scotland today hoping to catch up with 43132 and 385045 so any information on allocations/diagrams for these two would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Many thanks - at least I know not to hang around on the off-chance.

Will be down in London this afternoon hoping for my last Thameslink unit for haulage - 700122. When known, any information on its scheduled workings today would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

A reminder that diversions are using this chord tomorrow and next Sunday. Next opportunity after that is 13th January. http://www.auod93.dsl.pipex.com/UT_S33.htm Ian

Could it have been a huge vacuum cleaner? :lol: http://www.rail.co/2012/02/15/railcare-bridgeway-consulting-sign-maintenance-agreement/

See http://www.auod93.dsl.pipex.com/UT_S33.htm and from that look up intermediate timings on NRE, OpenTrainTimes, or rail.staging.swlines

... such as the regularly-planned (around once a month) diversion of the T-F 0338 Chester to Manchester Airport - it's happening this week for instance. Though it does seem to take the strange route of going via Manchester Piccadilly! Ie Wilmslow - Styal - Heald Greeen - Piccadilly - Heald...

More opportunities to traverse this connecting line are coming up on 18th and 25th November - in daylight! See http://www.auod93.dsl.pipex.com/UT_S33.htm Ian

The 1927 Manchester Piccadilly to Southampton Central ran that way on 16/17/18 July, and is scheduled to do so again on 1/2/3 October: http://www.auod93.dsl.pipex.com/UT_S32.htm Ian

60009 'Union of South Africa' http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t12/t0803a.htm Ian

There is a photo, not of the bridge/tunnel entrance unfortunately, but taken from the top of it looking back towards Basford Hall in "Rail Centres: Crewe" by Rex Christiansen (pub. Ian Allan / Booklaw). Ian

Yes - just one of the units shuttles back and forth ad infinitum. A while back, the unit was replaced with the second one around lunchtime/early afternoon, but I don't know whether this changeover still happens.

Take a look at this to see what stations are covered by a (Zone1-6) travelcard: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/maps/London_Rail_Tube_map.pdf

http://www.auod93.dsl.pipex.com/UT.htm also covers parliamentary trains, as well as engineering diversions and scheduled WTTs over other rare routes