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Thanks - it was actually the carriage rather than the loco I was most interested in. Thank you - this is really useful. Thanks. The beluxtrains website mentioned above lets me find out exactly where these are. Looks like these, and the AM80 & AM86 are the only stock left with what I think of...

@MarcVD Any tips on where in Belgium to find these running at the moment? Are they fairly widespread? Also - last year I travelled from Aachen to Liege in the carriage just behind the loco here: Is that a bit of an anomaly or am I likely to find these elsewhere in the country?

According to reports on se-gen, it only got as far as Southease before failing - and has had to be dragged back to Newhaven Marine.

I'm fairly sure one of the stated aims of their recent fund raising excercises was to take operations in house though.

Why does it need an engine to rescue it - is it because it's not possible to run around in Lewes?

If you were to show up at Inverness station a bit before 5am, intending to get to edinburgh using the glasgow train departing at about 5.30, you might be tempted to get on the earlier "Edinburgh" service but this would be a mistake as it goes via Aberdeen and takes over an hour longer. I find...

Looks like only partially rebuilding the side to me - the core of the embankment remains as-is.

Does this mean that track on concrete slab is much less likely to buckle? Or does the point of failure just transfer to the rail fixings instead.

That's what I'd assumed. 1787437552 What I also noticed this morning is that the "up" line still seemed to be in place and continuous.

Photo of the situation as of a couple of hours ago. All carriages gone now. Can see how much they've built up the embankment on the west side.

Actually looking at other images I'm not sure those coaches had any logos on them? So maybe something else.

To reduce the opportunities for bad PR I imagine

Sure, but is it essentially the same operation but under new ownership - does EPR take over the locos etc that the "old" europheonix had?

I've lost track of what all these companies are. Does "Europheonix Rail" have anything to do with this Europheonix?

I used to pronounce the "d" in Guildford, until I was told off for it. I currently spend a fair bit of time in Lewes and am often listening to people to try and work out if it's pronounced differently from Lewis.

It's likely to be a swiss cheese type scenario isn't it? That section of track already subject to difficult ground conditions, as evidenced by all the reports of rough riding, and exacerbated by the unusual dryness and then some other factor such as heat related buckling pushing any misalignment...

It's surprisingly difficult to pin down its ownership, by looking online! There is plenty of definitive stuff from some years ago saying that it is owned by DB, but none that indicates it's been sold since.

I don't see Dollands Moor in there. Reason I ask is that I know it's been acknowledged in various government reports that it was a mistake to give EWS sole ownership of it - it gave them effective monopoly on traffic through the channel tunnel. And there were recommendations I think to bring it...

Does DB still own Dollands Moor yard outright?

It's the one in the bottom left image on this page, I think: https://123walks.org/eastbourne-lewes/lewes-the-pells-the-ouse-2-6m/#jp-carousel-3913 I've walked under it a few times.