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Can someone remind me which classes of loco’s carried the cast stainless steel Inter City Swallow (not stickers) please ? I’m aware they were carried by HSTs, 91s and I think DVTs, were they carried by 47s, 86s, 87s and 90s ? Thanks

No “decent” HR manager or personnel director can have foreseen the number of drivers who have just simply had enough. Enough of getting up at 2 and 3 am one week and getting into bed at midnight, 1 or 2 or 3 am the next. Enough of the politics between government, management and the union, enough...

True there are fifteen of us in link one, not quite right about the shifts. We do have jobs that finish after midnight and can be earlier and later off spare turns. There is very little difference between any of the four main links. We are the only Avanti depot that take trains on and off of...