Recent content by Masborough

Thanks for that, yeah the 3B78 headcode clearly wasn't right to be fair!

Hi, around 1.30pm today I caught a glimpse (through trees in a park) of a Nova set, being hauled by what sounded like a class 37 heading southbound between Levenshulme and Heaton Chapel (South Manchester). I didn't get a good enough look to identify the loco class. Realtime trains has headcode...

Thanks to everyone for the info. Yeah, it is interesting; with Nottingham and Birmingham being such large cities and relatively close, I would thought that BR would have found a way to tack on at least a direct morning and evening express service, maybe even with first class provision. I...

Thanks JonathanH. I had wondered whether the odd SouthWest to Birmingham, Derby Sheffield and onwards service instead went via or terminated at Nottingham (in the era I mentioned above). I'm not sure if this would have made operational sense.

Hi, is anyone able to give a general idea of what used to form services between Nottingham to Birmingham, from around the start of the 80s to privatisation? ie classes of Dmu/ motive power? Also what would have been the origin and destination of any services? Many thanks

Yes, I remember the 101s being really loud in Totley tunnel, it was more like a howling gale than a constant noise.

Stockport (leaves heading southish) to Sheffield (enters heading north).

Class 158 for me. In my humble opinion, no other DMU from their 'generation' was able to replicate the comfort of loco hauled stock as well, particularly the Trans Pennine refurbishment (even Northern when new). They compare well to more modern units, I'd rather spend 2 hours on a 158 than a 185...

Class 120s Lincoln to Crewe? Bit of a tangent, but what surprised me, was how well first generation dmus compare(d) to loco + hauled stock in terms of power to weight ratio: A class 31 with only 5 coaches is around the same as a humble 101. Classes such as 110, 123, 125 were higher (based on...

In the 2000s 2 car 158s also often used to run between Liverpool & Nottingham and (at least once, probably more) when extended to Great Yarmouth on summer Saturdays. Manchester Sheffield at peak times was terrible. A shame really as IMO the 158s, with sufficient carriages, were otherwise decent.

I remember 156s on Liverpool Norwich being relatively rare about 10 years when I used to commute on part of the route. 153 + 158 was a real rarity. I remember choosing to sit in the 153 for the novelty value of both a 153 on the Hope Valley and a 153 on an express service. Fairly recently I've...

Class 222 on a Liverpool Nottingham special for the Grand National. Not a substitution as such but unexpected for this route. Whether such a unit should be 'unexpected' on an express route between 4 major cities is another matter...

Ha ha another liberty at 45 seconds was the apparent 140 mph running.

It occurred to check whether there was any coach interior images/ footage from the time of the Kent Coast electrification and was fortunate to find this British Pathe film: Trojan Seats, Melamine, Tungsten lighting and Curtains in Second. The moquette in (the rather comfortable looking)...

Not a direct answer to your post but in looking for answers to my original question I found the following interior view: https://midlanddeltic.smugmug.com/UK-Classes/BR-Mark-1-Rolling-Stock/i-gpnCj4X/A Apparently some hauled Mark 1s still were unreferbished, with wood panelling rather than...