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Thanks very much. I find the headcode numbers a bit confusing at times on Real Train timetables! But it would be correct and I did once again see it going south but couldn't catch the number!

Anybody know which 92 was on the front of 462J Felixstowe - Trafford Park this morning please? I have just seen it enter Trafford Park from my office window but missed the number. One of the grey ones which has taken over from GBRF liveried 92032 which has been on the diagram for the last two...

I've yet to try 350/4 but regularly travel between Manchester and Glasgow. My preference is for the Pendos and a change at Preston rather than a 185 for sure. Although my issue with the 185s is lack of adequate seating, especially in the Spring and Summer when you are clambering over...

92032 is staying busy. It's just passed my office at Trafford Park on the 476G to Felixstowe.

Bloody Wilmslow hooligans ;-)

Yes, tbf the leg room was spacious but not much more than standard so in that sense (being 5'7") SWT 444s are fine in that respect. Good point made. I'd disagree about the route not being "intercity" though. Many people commute a long distance each day from places like Southampton or...

In the middle of a first class ticket trip from Southampton to Manchester via London. The Virgin 390 is OK. Plug socket, free WiFi, free snack box of a few nibbles, free drinks unless alcoholic. I also used the first class lounge at Euston which is fine. By comparison I don't know what...

So which are the classes that have toilets but no retention tanks?

I was watching Portillo on the telly earlier aboard an XC HST and it got me thinking about XC. They have HSTs, 170s, 220s and 221s. What routes are each used on and are the HSTs and Voyagers interchangeable in practice?

And the location for 23 tram crashes with cars in six years!

1013 was looking quite sprightly on the Eccles line this morning!

There's a certain irony that those stations need to be lengthened when nearby stations such as Urmston would easily accommodate trains of that length. The Liverpool - Norwich service passes through Urmston which only deals with local Northern trains, made up of 142s, 150s and the occasional 156.

I'd imagine anything that is old, breaks down and costs too much to fix. Which means any of the unrefurbed 20s, 37s, 47s for example.

1022 on Eccles line this morning.

I was speaking with the general manager at the Crich Tram Museum. He reckons a T68 is headed for the Heaton Park Tramway.

Yes, I see both locos regularly at TP. Both in grey. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Thanks High Dyke.

56049, 074 and 090 to see future service with Colas...? The Class 56 Group thinks its possible. http://www.class56group.co.uk/archives/2908

I saw a quite unusual site from my office window near Trafford Park todaay at about 12.15 - two light class 92s speeding away from Trafford Park. I usually see one or two 92s arriving or leaving Trafford Park each day heading an intermodal freight but two light engines is not normal...

My office overlooks Exchange Quay on the Eccles line. I think they were using all the remaining T68s on it today.

I believe this is largely correct. As I understand it Drax produces about one million tonnes of PFA annually and about half of that is distributed on to the Barlow ash mound which moves around the north west side of the power station and is landscaped as it goes. The other half is sold on for...