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But my initial question still stands. If the space between the bogies is the same, what is located outboard of the bogies on an 800 that has had to be relocated on an 810? Just curious.

A lot is said about “squeezing” equipment into the 24m class 810, but am I mistaken in thinking the bogie centres are the same as on a standard 26m class 80x? If this is the case, how much stuff is mounted outboard of the bogies on a 26m variant and where has it been relocated on an 810?

For clarity, in the original post I witnessed this myself and the photo I posted was mine.

Last year, I got on a packed EMR train at Manchester Piccadilly, heading for Nottingham. A man had all his luggage on the seat next to him, so I asked him to remove it so that I could sit down. He claimed he didn't have to move it as he had bought two tickets for just this eventuality. I...

The BBC published a Network Rail image of the car being removed by a road/rail vehicle that appears to have headed towards St Erth: I wonder where it was offloaded as in the image it seems to rather out of gauge!

Line now clear but no sign of any trains. Update saying 16:30 at the earliest. 1783088880 Reports were pessimistic, first train just gone through.

A car has gone down the cutting onto the track at Carbis Bay. 1783067982 Photo attached

On June 30th the St Ives branch was running with one unit instead of two, as was the Falmouth branch.

The B3306 between St Ives and Lands End is great. Narrow, twisty and you can play bus roulette on the blind corners!

The Grantham Canal ended up in LNER ownership.

One coach of this unit was on a low loader at junction 24 M1 yesterday evening. If it is like all the others that have been seen there it will be heading for scrap.

There have been a different pair of vehicles at M1 Jct 24 pretty much every evening for the past week and a bit. 1770366427 A different pair at Jct 24 again last night, one of them an ex class 508 vehicle.

What colour were the non-gangway mark 1 suburban stock when first introduced?

A simple question to which there may be no definitive answer. In pre BR blues days, why were DMUs painted green like locos and not maroon like hauled coaching stock,?

Nottingham to Barmouth Nottingham to Bournemouth