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It was a badly photoshopped Pendolino I'll admit, but the article is about the Grand Central plans from May 2020, not the Virgin franchise. Up here its common knowledge as being confirmed, they already have drivers and staff under contract.

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/business/five-new-direct-trains-from-blackpool-to-london-are-confirmed-from-next-year-1-9838499 Its all in progress currently. Don't sweat.

Love this debate. Politically correctness kills a lot of common sense. I believe all disabled users should be able to access train travel safely and effectively, but to block a sensible stop-gap for 99.9% of travellers because of 0.01% is silly. As was mentioned earlier, a non-compliant train...

70817, saw it at Strand Road myself :)

:D I saw them in my initial Spotting career from 1992 to 1999, but not in my new one since 2016 :)

Typical, I need 3 x LNER HST's for sight. 43300, 43308 and 43320. Bang goes my chance of catching 43300. And 43308 was on the other end!

90050 is fit only for scrap, I think it is barely more than a shell. Preserve one by all means, but that one would be a waste of money.

Any chance of Network Rail snapping a couple of extra redundant HST's from the growing pool of stored examples? They could make two NMT's and cover the network twice as quick ;) (I am aware its not that simple!)

Fix it, sell it on for profit. Surely the only reason to buy it.

Had to get the train to work - Preston to Swinton on Wednesday, which meant going via Wigan (NW walking to Wallgate). Wallgate provided 142030 which I travelled on to Swinton. Nobody complained despite the loose seat and general lousiness of the train. It still worked, and that's better than no...

67030 was literally the only need of @palmersears that I had already, so I took that as a very minor "win" for me considering I need about three quarters of the UK rolling stock :D Small wins eh!

Thank you @433N - it is strange how certain locos / units evade us completely. My pleasure @palmersears :p Small update here as well. Had a business meeting event at TeamSport underneath Manchester Victoria on Thursday last week. Won the karting ;) and en route from Buckshaw to Victoria and...

Excellent update @palmersears as always. Very few left to go for through. Can you get them completed before the decade is out, that should be the challenge! Funny really I've barely scratched a quarter off, of what you need I have seen though: 67030 - seen at King's Cross as Thunderbird in...

Its horrible to read all the posts here clearly from people brainwashed by our mass media's agenda driven "reporting" on Brexit & the EU.

Hi all, I've read through @palmersears thread of his journey from nothing to everything (bar a handful!) and it has led me to create my own thread of sorts as I try and rack up sightings. My situation is different. I travel occasionally - normally once or twice a month - for work, and with a...

Parts recovery is sadly more likely for all these 5. I think 60086 is the first to go through. Presume the buyer is Booth's or somebody similar. Hope I'm wrong.

Superb, cheers :)

Hi all Was in Windsor yesterday. Saw 2U36 at Riverside at 12.53 - anyone ID this for me? Cheers Craig

Been reading this thread and the consensus seems to be.. Ban steam because some idiots stand too close to the track? I was at Preston to see the Flying Scotsman on Saturday and everybody was well behaved, and there was a lot of people there. To ban the operation for safety reasons just spoils...

Preston on Saturday 20/07: 142027 on Preston to Ormskirk 142036 on Ormskirk to Preston, then Preston to Colne 142054 stabled in North siding next to RES platform