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140 Southern emus? Ouch! That won't be sorted in five minutes. Thankfully, the only Southern ones required all time are a handful of 171s. And thanks to clearing 377466 for ten miles last month, I'm not chasing any green Electrostars. Believe it or not, I do have weak areas (it's all relative...

Friday October 31st – Going over old ground on Halloween The last long distance trip of the year and could I sleep the night before? No was the short answer. A full days bashing on about three to four hours sleep is simply not recommended by heyho, it has to be done. Leaving home at stupid...

More haste, less speed! You've just highlighted the problems of copying material from the master log and (non) editing of appropriate entries. Watch out for what should be the final long distance trip of the year - that's in the schedule for Friday. Thereafter until reasonable daylight hours...

Saturday 25th October – The Mancunian re-run The decision making process for the last trip out (on October 11th) also took in the opportunity to fill in some more gaps in the haulage requirements. With Manchester easily accessible from London and a haulage requirements list as long as the...

And a few more The 121s that worked the Severn Beach line were Beach Buggies Most 1st generation dmu were Bog Carts And if there were no facilities, Bogless Carts 220 & 221are Vomit Comets 309s were Claccies

There always seems to be at least 5 or 6 Inverness 158s floating around Edinburgh every day - they seem prevalent on the Edinburgh-Perth services as well as the one turn that Tech mentions on the Shotts route. I think one also ends up in Queen Street working to Anniesland and gets out on the...

Since writing up the Manchester report, I've had a closer look at the individual Pacers still needed (either as outright winners or for the magic 10) and was slightly surprised [Ed: more like shocked] to see that over half on my list are east-side machines, i.e. those dreaded Heaton based ones...

Penzance is not a city but Truro is. You can also add Chichester, Newport, Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Durham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdeen which brings the total up[ to a respectable 30

Having had some feedback on the way I report things, I am changing the way that I report my haulage acquisitions. No longer will I list every single item that warrants an entry in the comments column of my own personal log. Instead I hope to focus on the big trips rather than things that I...

At least two pairs of 319s into Victoria earlier this evening on Sevenoaks services (viewed from the Wetherspoons "up the escalator")

September 2014 Haulage Report September proved to be somewhat quieter than the frenetic activity of recent months which is borne out by the first entry for September being as late as the 10th. Nevertheless, there was still a reasonable amount of activity on the haulage front. Particularly...

August 2014 Haulage Report August came and went it seems in almost a flash but that was probably because I was out and about so much trying to scratch outright winners and find all those units still needed for 10 miles. I achieved some significant milestones such as clearing the 377s for the...

So another month passes and activity on the haulage front is still pretty good with some decent results. Main thing of note is that within the space of a week, I managed to clear two EMU classes. Last month I was predicting that I would soon be passing 1,000 different items for the year; little...

If you are chasing EMUs then two -three hours at Glasgow Central high level will get you a good bag of 380s and 314s. There are also loads of 156s coming and going to help you on your way. You're better off standing on the higher numbered platforms - the ones that seem to be full of 380s...

If you were to join the Yahoo ukmodernemu group, there's a copy of the current carriage working book (CWN) for the whole of the southeastern in the files section and that will give you all the booked workings. 465/9s also inhabit some of the Charing Cross-Tunbridge Wells workings - the...

There's folk out there who rave about 317s. Personally, I am not a huge fan of the 455s, probably on account of them dominating the central and south west suburban networks. I have a particular dislike of 455/7s (the former 4FOE trailer looks odd to me) and Southern's 455s because the seats are...

Techniquest, of course you're welcome to nick the term bus stop bash. It's been around since at least the late 1970s and was used by loco bashes to describe any short distance move. Nobody ever seemed to know exactly what constituted a bus stop bash but ones that I have come across are Exeter...

I’ve been able to write up June’s haulage log in almost record time; mainly on account of having a week away from travel on the national network. However the first part of June was exceptionally busy with entries flooding into the book on an almost daily basis. I have managed to break one of...

There's also the Strathclyde Daytripper which covers a greater area including places such as Ayr, Gourock, Wemtss Bay and more of the north Clyde network. More information on the useful GB Railrover website http://http://www.railrover.org/pages/strathclyde-daytripper.html

Confirmed as running on 2V15 this morning with ex-Southern friend 319003