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This is brilliant Keith. Like the fact that you recorded everything, DMUs, HSTs, loco's on depots, in addition to your loco-haulage - really captures the era. Please let us have some more insights into your 70's travels. In regard to this report, am I right in assuming it covers the weekend...

Interesting. Certainly on the WR in the early days there was a great deal of fluidity, partly due to the inability to form Sets with the booked vehicles due to late deliveries, partly due to various technical difficulties which emerged as the sets bedded into traffic, and also on the WR due to...

Yes, Bevan you are absolutely right. Back in those days not many people were as interested in coaching stock and formations. Nevertheless, the sort of detail you have recorded would be very useful in itself, if you had the time to collate it. I wonder if you could drop me a quick email to...

Well there's a question! The answer is hopefully yes. I am tentatively looking at producing something on the first few years on the WR, as that is my main area of interest. Whilst I have accumulated a great deal of information on formations, commissioning, delivery/overhaul dates, diagramming...

For the record 253 001 entered passenger service on 09.08.76 as a single TRSB set, with 40001, and the vehicles listed plus an additional TS, 42029 vice 40501. Due to late delivery, no TRUKs were available for the start of the 125mph service from October 1976. A few sets were temporarily...

Due to an impending house move I have assembled a box of junk, or possibly gems, that are surplus to requirements. A rough summary of the contents is detailed below. Located in Greenwich, SE London, the material is FREE, awaiting collection by anyone who is prepared to do so by 15th August...

Hello D809 I was very interested in your post concerning your observations/photographs of HST power cars under construction in 1976. I have been researching the genesis of the original black and yellow livery and the reasons for its abandonment to dispel some of the mythology that has...

Hi Rob, I am no Western expert but thought the following may be of help. Flickr is a good resource and here are two more links. The first features D1068 in the Workshop at Swindon dated March 1977 http://www.flickr.com/photos/16179216@N07/6506886549/in/set-72157629468865245 The...

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I am trying to piece together my records from Spring 1978 but have lost my notes from two weekends in April 1978 - 8th/9th, 15th/16th. Did anybody on the forum record any observations west of Bristol Parkway, through Newport, Cardiff, and onto Swansea over either of these weekends. Notes of...

Very little response to my original request. Guess very few people were interested enough to record such detail in the 1970s. May be the same for the following, but in the absence of formation records, did anybody record power car pairings on their visits and travels on the WR in the 1970s...

Not sure if this is the right category to post this appeal, but it doesn't seem to fit any of the sub-forums. Apologies if misplaced. However, hope somebody, somewhere may have the material requested from days gone by. The Midlands Railfans Group which organised visits to BR Depots...

Christmas holidays. Wondered if anyone has time to dust off their old notebooks for information relevant to my original post. Any contributions or correspondence would be very welcome. Thanks and hope all on the forum have a good 2012. Commoner

Originally posted in June/July 2011 to which a I received some helpful responses. I didn't realise threads were locked after a period of inactivity. Will try and keep thread active in future. My project is ongoing and I would welcome any responses from existing members or new members who...

I have been interested in and engaged in research into HST operation in BR days for many years. In addition to my own observations, I have sought assistance from interested individuals through appeals in the railway press, society magazines and the web and have received help from various well...

Many thanks for your helpful reply and well spotted. Yes that was me. have placed a number of ads in the railway press over the years with varying degrees of success. However, the responses and supply of information has dwindled. So now I am resorting to desperate pleas for help on the web...

Unsure if this is the correct forum for a request for help from the 1970s. Apologies to all if it’s misplaced. I wondered whether any members of the forum could assist me in my efforts to document Western Region HST operation during the years 1976/77/78. I am in need of direct observations...