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In many European countries. combined first- and second-class carriages had compartments for first class, and open seats for second class. In the UK, of course, compartments are designated with a K and open seats with O. I understand that combined carriages in the UK were either fully...

Wonder if they'll deliberately drag it out long enough to ensure at least some of the rolling stock gets to experience 50 years of continuous service?

I'm not sure the current German government would be willing to bomb Old Trafford...

Came across this video from Preston on the WCML in late April 1992. On a couple of occasions you can see Class 150 sets - at least one even operating as a 3-car(!). Where were the 150s used at this point? Temporary replacement for the 108s to Barrow? AFAIK the Manchester - Preston services were...

Or was the 87/90+DVT removed at Carlisle/Preston and the Mk3 rakes just ran as an ordinary Class 47-hauled train?

That livery should be declared a crime against humanity...

How about the Freightliner one that burned?

Wouldn't a DSO be a Driving Standard Open? AFAIK the syntax of the letters have meaning - or used to have meaning - too?

What happened to TSOD?

What does DSO stand for?

HSTs being used on a line with a maximum speed for passenger trains (according to Wikipedia) of 100 km/h... Heh 1699819934 According to Wikipedia, they already have ex-Amtrak (and ex-UP) equpiment: Two ex-Union Pacific SD70M locomotives, 12 ex-Amtrak passenger cars (including three Amfleets)...

Pretty certain, based on the WTTs and timetables I have excerpts of, that they were two separate trains, both running over the WCML 1694286278 Thanks for the info. I see that the original poster on Flickr now also have updated the post there with pretty much the same info

Britain should have pruned it's railway network to whatever lines could be converted to Berne gauge (UIC gauge).

So basically two sets of five cars and one powercar?

Is there any truth in the rumours about an HST set (possibly two sets each with only one powercar?) going to Mexico?

Possible, I guess. I thought the sleepers too had been included in the fixed formations change around 1990ish, but I guess they may not have been? I've got pretty reliable formation data for the Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Inverness and Poole/Penzance sleepers from the summer of 91, but not been able...

But weren't the sleepers already maxed out length-wise (max 16 cars) at this point?

Never claimed the to first Mk1s were anything other than Motorail GUVs, but were wondering about the large number of BGs

Still seems an unrealistically large number of BGs for a sleeper train of that era though? And the other two Mk1s are still a mystery? I'd guess that if aircon Mk2 seaters were lacking, they'd have gone for non-AC Mk2s as replacement instead of Mk1s (were there even regular Mk1s available...

Wasn't Clansman a day train? The caption on Flickr says it's the Euston - GC sleeper 1690289108 Yes, it's the number of BGs that confuse me too, surely the Euston - GC Sleeper wouldn't need more than 1 BG? AFAIK the sleeping car block was a total of 10 cars at this point - 3 sleepers, lounge...