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Aye, it was Flamboyant Trains. Northern Charters were supposedly proposing taking 4x20s to Skegness. It was never going to come off because the route it would have taken (Bootle-Aintree) is disused and the excursion platforms at Aintree are overgrown, cut off from the rest of the station and...

A few BLS tours using Merseyrail Class 507/508s have taken place - there was one a year or two back. And in the 1980s, the preserved 502 unit did a few spins when it was based at the now-gone Steamtown Southport, as did a preserved 503. The problem with EMU tours is a) finding a unit or two...

Not a scam as such, but let's say they were overambitious with their plans (such as 4x20s to Skegness) and other rumblings that went on which isn't for me to say.

95mph with a 47 DIT versus 100mph solo isn't exactly a big difference apart from a small performance penalty.

Sometimes tours are caped due to circumstances beyond their control, so can hardly be blamed. As for stops, I see that this tour is aimed more for those living in the West Midlands and the Home Counties - places that hardly ever see a tour of some sort. I know of a few people who have booked...

Right attitude! Unfortunately I cannot be on this one, but I wish you the best of luck with this one and hope everything runs to plan! :)

The ride quality on the 22x fleet is very good, so credit where it is due.

Hardly any nowadays. 221s being the preferred choice where possible.

If it doesn't have two working engines in 3 months time it won't get sent out, hence why it hasn't operated a charter on the mainline since August 2008. Barring any problems with transplanting the working engine from D9016 into 55022, I don't see why nobody can't be certain - the engine for...

The windows also look like the ones that will be used on the NXEA Class 379s if the mock-up drawings from last year is anything to go by. As for the livery and seating moquette, you will all find that this is LOROL-spec livery and moquette (as per the Class 378s), so the photos of the 172s...

I can't go into the specifics as it's not for me to say, but I am afraid it's not as simple as that. I think with the DBS 37s, their reliability means that nobody in their right minds would want to use them unless they were organising a tour down a line that needed RA5 traction, plus I suspect...

Someone has to keep you in check! :wink:

The first half of the 2010 Compass Tours programme is now out up until early-July, with bookings being taken from Monday when the office re-opens. Below was posted on WNXX by Kevin47827... Saturday 27th March To LLANDRINDOD & CARDIFF (outwards via the Heart of Wales, return Chepstow) Picking...

Only because you ask the same question for EVERY tour you show an interest in, and refuse to accept the reasons that me and several others post when you start throwing your toys out of the pram. :roll: If the stock situation bothers you that much then contact promoters directly, rather than...

That would raise problems if one is asked "why did you not go via Shrewsbury?"

While you are correct in saying that the WMDR is intended for unlimited travel across a certain area, I have found that (from my own experience) when travelling on a Wigan-Birmingham Off-Peak Return costing £23.70, it is cheaper to instead buy a Wigan-Crewe Anytime Day Return for £8.40 and use a...

What I want to know of is the fate of 150001/002. These two are the prototype 150s, and have different bogies, engines and transmission to the production 150/1 and /2s as well as different couplers inside the units. It would be a bit ludicrous to see the centre cars removed and scrapped...

Which was my point exactly. If it says in the public domain that it is valid, then to the passenger it is, regardless of what may have been said in the staff domain to be contradictory. But seeing as it is now firmly established that the WMDR is now valid on Virgin Trains, I think that's that...

Previously the WMDR wasn't valid on Virgin Trains, and reading this thread I thought this to still be the case. However, if it's on the National Rail and London Midland websites, then it seems to me that they have changed this and Virgin are now accepting them. Might be advisable to print off...

37516 failed earlier on the tour, so 47851 ran round to be marshalled to the front of the stock and power the tour in tandem with 37676. I believe the Harrogate Loop mini-tour was cancelled due to the massive delays encountered upon the failure of 37516, as well as 47851 needing more fuel...