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5Z70 formed of 57305, 9525, 12091, 10229, 11078, 11090, 11095 and 57303. The Mk3s are branded.

Currently AT Feeding in place between Kentish Town and Borehamwood and also between Kettering and Wigston.

Braybrooke SGT2/F2 will only normally feed Braybrooke to Wigston MPATS, but has the ability to feed further in both dirrctions. We have recently had F2 feeding both ways so feeding Sharnbrook to Wigston. Likewise if there are any planned Isolations between Kettering and Braybrooke, then Long...

They are both empty shells

Was in AC mode for both runs. Pan was dropped at Penrith whilst some diagnostics were done due to the early running, then at Carlisle the run round was done on Diesel/Battery.

It achieved 110mph running last night with the ETS on and performed really well despite following slower services.

43006/029 have since been shunted out ready for one way road transport. 43112 is operational along with all the other remaining Power Cars on site.

The stock will return to Crewe in the New Year, with 82306 replacing 9525 for further test runs.

Last nights run was cancelled due to operational issues (no issues with 93001) 37510 taking the stock back to Yarmouth tomorrow on 5L46.

It's happened in service earlier in year. Thankfully today there was minimal damage to the OLE as with it using the crossover it could have been a lot worse!

Full testing has been ongoing for the last couple of months. Yesterday was an intense 12hour shift of final testing as we fibally brought both feeds online at Braybrooke as well as energised the 7x Auto Transformers between Kettering and Wigston for the first time. The first train to take load...

Braybrooke Entry into Service at 22:10, now feeding Sharnbrook to Corby/South Wigston.

The Mk3s are now vinyled up with various logos of the parties involved, the start date of testing is getting closer.

The move is cancelled

The Mk3s being used are 42097, 44012, 42376 & 45003 with 91117 in the middle. Testing will commence late summer.