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Yes I agree wise move, trust you do not miss the appointment in Licensed Premises, nothing should delay these

Poor day today just 3 units out on Alderley edge diagrams and Stalybridge not covered either

Only 1 diagram on Stalybridge is scheduled for 769

Had 456 on Saturday afternoon, made a spirted climb to Bolton , running at 73-75 up the hill, pulled away from Salford crescent as good as if on the juice

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G90256/2022-05-30/detailed intresting as was on time, the inbound was worked by 424 arrived 8 late

Best seat I’ve ever hand as a passenger is lower saloon near side front on a routemaster with window down listening to thrash on a Leland engine one

Am surprised the 3 that started off this morning are still going strong, the warm weather not affecting them today, was thinking as day got warm there would be issues with the cooling system e

Just 2 out units out so far today 456 and 458, not seen the day starting off so badly

Today only 3 out, 2 on Alderley edge and 1 on stalybridge, . Seems to have been a bit common over last few weeks just 3 diagrams covered, is there anything official on these reductions

Looks like it failed prior to departure with 1130 to Stalybridge

performance levels at one of the worse today, 2 failures and only 3 out of the 6 diagrams 769s, 2 on Alderley edge out of 5, the Stalybridge diagram failed on return to Southport after 1 round trip, the 2036 ECS Southport to Wigan CS was 8 car unit

For info and historical point of view, RTT showing all booked diagrams(6)scheduled to be 769 today, 5 on Alderley circuit and the 1 Stalybridge. Yesterday 5 apart from staffing problems mamaged to see the day through to end of service

Well today is 1st day this week, according to real train times all diagrams(5) are allocated 769s, but the Stalybridge diagram is a 2 car 150, let’s see how the day goes

The line is closed between Salisbury and Southampton all weekend, buses between these 2 points, remember bashing the 33s in 1980s, these services diverted via Basingstoke, with a run round involved there. It seems a culture now to just pup on RRB rather than arrange diversions, crew route...

The Leeds service runs Monday to Saturday every hour roughly xx50 from North western and runs non stop to Daisy Hill, this service has run from here for at least 2 years if memory corrects me

Thanks for the Intel on that, wasn’t sure if it was maybe policy to avoid a failure at Bolton on the late evening services changing power at Bolton

Correct

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Class 444 from aldershot, not sure if there are any booked

caught 769458 this evening at Manchester Piccadilly on 1950 Alderley Edge to Southport service and it was in diesel mode rather than 25kv , had to double check as noticed pantograph was down, run on diesel under wires , obtained a decent 71mph(using gps) on uphill climb from Salford crescent to...