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Found a video of one of the 171+171+171+171+171 ten coach formations formed of five units mentioned earlier on: This makes me wonder whether or not SWR have ever operated any 158+158+158+158+158 ten coach trains formed of five units before. They have regularly run ten coach trains but it...

Following on from this thread about how many different job titles we have for guards in the UK (we have twelve different job titles) i thought it would be interesting to see if other countries have similar situations...

There is a video on youtube of an extra long 23 coach 6x 375 formation: There is also a video of a slightly shorter 16 coach 4x 375 formation: Not quite as long as the 24 coach 8x 377/3 formation that Southern once had but almost. I wonder what caused this Southeastern one. I reckon it...

Scotrail have so many different PIS systems depending on the class. 153 - TrainFX 156 - TrainFX 158 - BTROS (Whiteleys) 170 - BTROS (Whiteleys) 318 - BTROS (Whiteleys) 320/3 - BTROS (Whiteleys) 320/4 - Axion (SAViewCom) 334 - Alsthom 380 - Televic 385 - Televic MK3 - TrainFX As mentioned most...

Another very rare formation that i have just remembered that has happened on one occasion only was an 8x 377/3 formation. This is a 24 coach 377/3+377/3+377/3+377/3+377/3+377/3+377/3+377/3 formation. This was back in the late 2000s when for about two years there was two booked peak hour 4x 377/3...

I have only just remembered that the 458/0 had tightlock couplings and the 458/4 and 458/5 have dellner couplings. So actually i think a 458/0+458/5 has never happened. But a formation of 458/4+458/5 must have happened on an ECS working at some point recently. I would not be surprised if a...

When they send units from Mainland European factories to Britain by train how often does the locomotive change? Is it one locomotive all the way there? Or do these change locomotives at Coquelles or Cheriton or somewhere? Also are the barrier wagons changed as well when a locomotive change...

Wow that is very rare to see! I never thought i would see an Aventra and Juniper coupled together! Now that i have seen that i wonder whether 458/0+458/5 formations and 458/4+458/5 formations have ever happened? At least on ECS moves it must have happened before?

Which multi operator bus tickets are accepted by the most amount of bus operators? We have quite a lot of multi operator bus tickets but normally they only cover smaller areas and are only accepted by around five operators. But there are some bigger ones. The most i can find is the Discovery...

Actually i think it was an Arriva Trains Northern formation. Not sure why i thought that was Central Trains too. Pretty sure it was actually Arriva Trains Northern running it.

I forgot about those. Those looked so strange. Surprisingly there has actually been lots of 150/153/156/158 hybrid sets. This is the 156/158 that Central Trains ran: This is the 153/156 that Central Trains ran: This is the 150/153 that First Great Western ran: Not different classes...

Haha luckily they had nothing like that here. We also had Connex in the UK running two train companies (Connex South Central and Connex South Eastern) and three bus companies (Connex Bus Sussex and Connex Bus London and Connex Bus Jersey) but they had no mascots or personalies advertising them...

Southern had that Loco Toledo mascot. They started using him in 2010 and he was all over the Southern website and station posters until the late 2010s (they got rid of him when the DOO dispute started) but he lasted until 2020 on the posters above the doors on some units. They seem to have...

I think there was a thread about two years ago. That is where it was first mentioned that Italy in a day was not possible back then. I also remember a thread about doing London to Aberdeen or London to Inverness as a day trip which i think is the furthest domestic day trip from London you can...

I made a post about this a while ago but i only just realised that day trips to Italy by train are technically possible now. So this might be the record for the furthest day trip from London possible by train. It has certainly never been possible to do a day trip to Italy until a recent...

Does he want just a generic orange hi viz drivers bag like the one in your photo? Or is he after one that has the train company logo printed? I can not find the exact one in your photo but there are similar ones. Even on the railway you will get train drivers with multiple different designs of...

Brighton is probably the worst for not having clear announcements. You can barely understand the automated announcements. The speakers are so old and high up and everything echoes. The sound projection is awful. It makes it so hard to understand a word that the announcements are saying. It is a...

A few other rare ones that i can think of that have happened over the years. Another rare one was a 171+377 formation about ten years ago. It happened when a 377 got stuck between Berwick and Glynde and a 171 was eventually sent to haul it to Eastbourne sidings. These two classes have been...

It was normally a Dennis Dart SLF rather than a coach. Connex did indeed used to run an hourly Eurotunnel bus service for foot passengers. It ran from Ashford railway station to Calais railway station with stops in Cheriton and Coquelles too outside the Eurotunnel terminals. It had a very good...

What i wonder is whether a Pacer + Sprinter + Turbostar formation could operate in passenger service? So for example would a 142 + 150 + 170 formation? It has been said that Pacer and Turbostar can not couple in passenger service but if the Sprinter was in the middle then maybe it could work. As...