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From what is quoted from the Larissa station master, the passenger train was on the wrong track. Apparently he has claimed that this was due to faulty points, but also admitted letting the passenger train SPAD

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I think the 73s will remain for a while, the most precarious to replace is the Type 7 stock which is in really poor condition

Looks like both trains must've been doing line speed or close to it, given how crushed and mangled especially the one 120 is, and the fact that two carriages are described as "no more in existence"...

Thanks for the answers. It still does not answer why the BFKs on cross country trains formed BFK - RBR - 5 TSO or BFK - 5 TSO - BFK as standard (at least on every photo/video I've seen) seemed to have the van end towards the RBR/TSOs

From the steam era, I understand the standard was that the brake end on coaches like BTKs were to face the end of the train - e g a BCK at the front with the Brakevan end facing forward, and a BTK at the rear with the Brakevan end facing rearward, and if there were more than two, the others...

Perhaps imagining the government in the late 40s instead of nationalising had decided to give the "Big Four" an economic aid package instead. Could the "Big Four" have survived into our time? Would we have seen an even more streamlined network in that case? Would they have ended up merging into...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/db-class-90-updates.243097/ Freightliner next?

It is sort of similar to Kristiansand on the Norwegian Southern Trunk line then, although there all passenger trains have to change direction, only freight trains run through on the tangent track

You guys should consider joining the EU, I hear they give funding for infrastructure projects like this

Somehow in my head I always place Fort William on the Far North line...

Wouldn't the Ft Bill change direction at Inverness as well? 1675344474 Guess we can pretty strongly conclude that the "mystery" sleeper is indeed the Fort William one then

The sleeper seen towards the end just runs past the station, but the first sleeper (the one we're discussing) makes a stop - does the timetable say anything about whether the Ft Bill or the Aberdeen trains actually stopped at Watford? I think there might also have been a separate Euston -...

Unlikely to be seen at Watford Junction though? 1675308756 Did that one still operate as late as the summer of 1991 though?

Video from Watford Junction in summer 1991 seems to show two (presumably northbound) night trains: The first one is at around 4:15, hauled by a Class 87 and has a pretty weird formation of 2 Motorail GUVs, 3 SLE/SLEP, 1 TSO, 2 BSO with the van areas facing each other, 2 TSO. Strangely large...

Good thing there never was a Virgin Penetrator I guess....

Both actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_state_car#France

Darn.. How long has that series been going?? It was broadcast over here for a few years around 1990, and I was of the impression it was fairly well established in the UK for years by then?

This is a bit of a different discussion though, on whether the train is actually configured to carry a casket or not (which it is, as my link posted above shows)

Found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20140306153413/http://www.therailwaycentre.com/New%20Coach%20Tech%20Data/Royal.html In the commentary to coach 2921, an ex-Mk2b BSO, I think, it says, "Fitted with coffin table in former guards' van. Will be used for Funeral Train of Queen"