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442 and 450 came out to play today, driver training on Wigan - Southport.

Very many thanks. Yes, a good day indeed!

Good morning, folks. Could anyone possibly advise which 150 worked 2W20, the 1849 Alderley Edge - Southport yesterday evening (4 March), please? Ashamed to say that after an excellent pub crawl, using a 'Northern Tenners' to Buxton, then a bus to Leek for a session before another couple of...

From Moorfields? :oops:

Maybe not an "unusual reason" as such, but surely unusual to be given details of the nature of the passenger's condition? Paramedics attended and said "We've gotta gonner 'ere ...", perhaps?

Really? Isn't that both over-simplistic and somewhat inaccurate? Surely the truth is that the company has z units, from which it requires x to be available to cover y diagrams. It thus has a responsibility to manage its resources such that x (the number of available units) is not fewer than...

Yeah - fair enough, but what I meant (but didn't make clear) is that not only does the system expect fare evaders, it even expects them to make such a fuss as to make it necessary to cancel a train. I wonder if you get a discount on the fine for being a polite and co-operative fare evader, thus...

Many Thanks. Ditto for the additional gen. Interesting reference to Hall Road shed - visible behind the shot of 508040 at the platform, and now demolished for new housing.

I particularly like the fact that there is a code to accommodate "passengers not having valid tickets" as reason for cancellation. Clearly it is a foreseen circumstance. Naming no names, but if it catches on in some parts of the country, nothing will run at all!

Not quite. Some, at least, were initially used on Merseyside as three car sets but retaining their 5080xx numbers. See below 508040 at Hall Road in April 1984. Apologies for the quality - these are scans from slides taken on a very dull Sunday, when due to engineering works, the service was...

Meanwhile, back on topic (this isn't really supposed to be about MtoGo shops!) ... Merseyrail's punctuality figures suffered a hit last night (18 Feb 2020). The 2151 Hunts Cross - Southport failed at Seaforth and Litherland. Fitters were summoned, and eventually got it going (out of...

Brookwood. The only other BR station with two sets of double-o (oo) letters in its name, and no other vowels.

I did the last Liverpool Central (High Level) to Gateacre - April 1972, a few days before my 14th birthday. I don't remember the exact time, but six o'clock ish - it certainly wasn't dark. And instead of leaving us 'marooned' there, the crew brought the dozen or so enthusiasts back to Hunts...

Current or historic? If historic, there were hundreds if not thousands, where through carriages were added / removed to form longer / shorter trains and thus to serve additional origin / destination stations. Not to mention slip coaches!

Yes, but the mid-life overhaul itself takes a unit out of service for some time, potentially leading to shortages, and extra demands on the rest of the stock. You can't plan for the future expecting 'best case scenario' every day from entering service to final withdrawal without risking being...

52 sets to cover the work of 50 (all other things being equal) means an expected 96% availability. Good luck with that one - not only from day 1, but also when overhauls are due, during periodic refresh / re-branding exercises (bound to happen during their lifetime) and so on. OK - I suspect...

Note it's not just Southports that get 6 car formations - several peak-hour Ormskirks are 6 car 507/508 too. It's these that need to turn back at Liverpool Central, rather than the Southports which pretty well all run through to Hunts Cross. Look at Real Time trains for somewhere like, say...

Just a few observations about the points (no pun intended!) made above: Likelihood of blocking Manchester bound (platform 2) at Hunts Cross is negligible, as Merseyrail only use platform 2 there in their own emergency situation, e.g. if a Merseyrail unit fails in [their own] platform 3. This...

in 'Clockwise' (1986), John Cleese needed (but missed) a train from Hull to Norwich. Is that close enough for you? :)

Fair point - but that might make the decision more open to challenge.