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Good morning. Can someone identify the locos on the below workings from yesterday please: 1Z07 0631 Wolverhampton to Kingswear (For Dartmouth) 4L97 0314 Garston F.L.T. to Ipswich S.S. 4S49 1104 Daventry Int Rft Recep Fl to Grangemouth Flt 5Z66 1907 Preston to Carnforth Steamtown For the steam...

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Good afternoon, Looking for information from yesterday please. What I saw was 3 Colas locos on a light movement about 13:00 at Tyseley travelling north. I believe it was the below working: 6M50 0713 Westbury Down T.C. to Bescot Up Engineers Sdgs. Any help identifying the locos would be greatly...

Good afternoon, Looking for the loco(s) on this from 17th May: 6Y61 0730 South Ruislip to Bescot Up Engineers Sdgs I think it was top & tailed.

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Thanks for all the replies. I'll let you know how it goes if I do travel

Good Afternoon, I may be travelling on a late night Avanti service from Euston and will have to change at Rugby for a RRB to Birmingham New Street. Can anyone recommend which would be the closest carriage of an 11 car Pendolino to the exit from platform 2 for a head start in the rush to the...

Interesting discussion. You are probably correct. It would be an unlikely scenario, mostly been playing devil's advocate.

But if the incident is known to railway control they could tell scheduled services at that station to not open train doors. Staff on an unscheduled service would not have the benefit of that warning

Totally agree, that's why I said in this instance, I believe that authority came from on high. The second point about opening the doors without authorisation was not meant to be related to my experience but to the wider topic. Sorry if I didn't make that clear

Any incident that could put people in danger, not necessarily connected with the railway.

I was on XC to Manchester Piccadilly recently and were held outside Stockport for about 40 minutes at a red signal at which point we reversed back to Cheadle Holme where the doors were immediately opened and the majority of pax left the station to continue their journey independently. However...

3 minutes to respond, amazing. Thank you.