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I'm wondering if anybody would be able to help me identify which Chiltern Birmingham services are operated by a 168/3 on a Saturday? I don't need the full diagrams, just any individual services that have been observed using a 168/3. I only know of one myself, which is 1H13 from Kidderminster...

There will be some pretty major engineering work happening in the Sheffield area on Sunday 20th April 2014 that will see trains doing some odd things, which some of you who like doing rare routes might be interested in. In summary, all of the platforms at Sheffield will be closed this day...

I thought I would start this thread to keep track of where the 180s are! TOCs in brackets indicates that the unit is for that TOC but not yet in service. Current Allocations 180101 180102 180103 - Northern 180104 180105 - (Grand Central) 180106 - Northern 180107 180108 - Northern...

Now Hull Trains are rid of 222101 and 222102 what does their fleet consist of? Only 222104, 180109 and 180110 are serviceable so what is their back-up Note: I noticed on locoscene that they used 180104 again this weekend.

222101 apparently arrived at Derby Etches Park from Crofton at 22:45 last night. 222102 will apparently follow on Wednesday arriving at about 20:00.

Here are some questions which I have been wondering about for a while. Due to my interest in the railways starting in 2006 I don't have much 1st hand knowledge prior to that. - Which class of train was the first to use electrical sockets for passengers? - Where were class 158s first used...

Something I thought you might be interested in. It seems that EMT are having massive issues with the 0727 Master Cutler service. I signed up to their www.eastmidlandstrainssales.co.uk website a while back which is basically for travel agents and sellers of their tickets. Anyway they send...

Could anyone help me out in finding out the current diagrams for the EMT 222s/HSTs:?: I think I've managed to figure out the diagrams for the 7 car Meridians which I have put on my website (click link in signature and go down the to the bottom of the homepage). I wish to put the 5 car and HST...

Does anybody know who is going to be doing the refurbishment of the first class on the Meridians? The work is due to begin in spring apparently. Standard class will be done next year. For a preview look in the latest edition of journeys magazine. The seats and curtains are going to be a blue...

Is there any way to find out train headcodes? I just wish to add headcodes to my page on Sheffield-London services here. (If anybody knows any it would be a help :)) I see some people have the codes on their fotopic pages and was just wondering where they get these from?

After seeing this picture on fotopic it got me thinking into how SDO works / is controlled. The picture is of the cab desk of 222007 when it was first introduced as a 9 car Meridian. There is like a keypad embeded in the desk that goes from 1 to 13 with a blue button as the last button. The...

So far for Sheffield to London I have to following list of what stock will be used on which services from the timetable change Monday to Friday. I was wondering if anybody knows which of the 5 car Meridians will be doubled up to 10 car?. MR5 = 5 car Meridian etc. I hope the 17:27 south is are...

In peoples experience what is the minimum number of engines a (Super) Voyager or Meridian can run on and still keep time? I have seen a 4 car Voyager with only 2 engines running. It was late but I'm not sure if it was becuase of the engines or other reasons. I have seen a lot of 7 car...

I'm having a problem with SimSig Sheffield. When a train goes into Sheffield station the code of the train dissapears and you just have the red line to tell where the train is. The problem is that when a train pulls out of Sheffield instead of displaying the train code again it just displays...

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Meridians seem to get a lot of wheel flats compared to Voyagers and the EMT HSTs. Almost every 7 car Meridian always seems to have a wheel flat. 222001 at the weekend had 3 wheel flats one of which sounded really bad. Most of the wheel flats are on...

Has anybody heard anything about 222103? About this time last year I heard that that 2 replacement cars were being built. I think now was about the time they were meant to be complete. I wonder if they ever bothered or will bother to build the replacements, especially now the Pioneer fleet is...

EMT are saying that more seats are going to be available on this route from December. I do not see how this is possible when 7 car Meridians are going to be used on nearly all services instead of HSTs. 7 car Meridians only have 12 more standard seats than a 5 car Voyager! The few Meridian...