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    Class 810 for East Midlands Railway Construction/Introduction Updates

    I suspect it's more a case that with the reduced timetable they were able to keep the problem units on depot, now it's back to full the problem units have to be diagrammed, and are causing problems. Same goes for the 222s.
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    Batley's "second" viaduct... Survived longer than I thought!

    Lost Railways West Yorkshire has the Dewsbury Loop closing on 15.2.1965 to freight.
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    Class 810 for East Midlands Railway Construction/Introduction Updates

    What do TLC & The Stone Roses have in common.... ;)
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    Batley's "second" viaduct... Survived longer than I thought!

    '93 tallies with when I thought Grange Road/Challenge Way was done, making me think it was the imputus behind it.
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    Batley's "second" viaduct... Survived longer than I thought!

    I don't think it lasted long beyond then. The viaduct was park of the GNR route to Dewsbury Central, the on to Ossett & Wakefield Westgate, which immediately after crossing the viaduct went under the LNWR lines, so at that end the viaduct was significantly lower than at the Batley end or...
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    Report of collision Bedford (Elstow) - 19/06/26

    WH492's at Bedford South Jn, 9T53 would have likely come out of platform 2 & 3 and being held waiting for 1H46 to pass. I can't remember exactly now. It would have no impact on the visibility of any of 1H46's signals.
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    Non-Urgent TOPS Requests

    That was 66536
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    Should trains have yellow rear ends to reduce collisions?

    I wouldn't expect the interim report to do so, either way. I've never been one to say we should keep yellow ends but there's something about that 10 second gap and people mentioning time taken to realise what you're looking at is really what you're looking at, not just a couple of random lights...
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    Furthest a shunter locomotive has moved under its own power?

    I know I've seen photos of them in consists of slow freight trains, rods removed, and presumably in neutral
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    EMR Regional and Connect refurbishments

    Really does seem bizarre when one type suffering poor availability's covering for another with the same! I was beginning to think the 360s had become the best of the 3 but that seems to have fallen off a cliff.
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    Furthest a shunter locomotive has moved under its own power?

    I remember EWS/DB moving their shunters around overnight on occasion, the longest I can recall myself was Peak Forest to Knottingley.
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    EMR Class 222’s - declining reliability

    Funny, because it's attributed to a brake gauge fault on 810011. 1791179969 Then again, things maybe aren't so bad with the 222s as they are with the 360s, 222009's working a Corby this morning! https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C41854/2026-10-05/detailed#allox_id=0
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    I heard they were going to put another shelter on the Leeds platform, actually where trains stop, so could be something to do with that?
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    Non-Urgent TOPS Requests

    Trust is showing 59202 & 66563

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