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Railcam is showing 150002 moving to Wolverton today as 5H70

Looks like a sublease from Grand Central so separate from this CorssCountry agreement.

Thursday ScotRail units: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K04870/2026-10-15/detailed https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K05123/2026-10-15/detailed

This appears to be a depot incident, nothing special and occurs fairly often.

Post #150 Update. Most diagrams now running, all 4 57s are in Taunton, 66s swap in York, 3W74/75 still not operating consistently.

Logic prevails! Keeping the entire fleet together makes sense, hopefully that means some of the BHM-LEI diagrams can change to Voyagers and allow CDF-NOT to be extended.

Is this likely to instigate further Class 66s being sent off lease?

Would there be any merit in LUMO requesting TAC for Wrexham services and joining/dividing at Nuneaton?

The applications are free to submit to the ORR but a consultation needs to take place before as well as requiring a operator license, so in essence, all of the costs are on the requestor.

:D Speaking of 73s, todays 3W90 is the first weekend run for this circuit - 73109 + 73202 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:H50833/2026-10-10/detailed

Looks like some of the 99 London Gateway diagrams including 4M01 and 4M47 have been swapped for 66s recently. Drivers on social media appear to have been discussing and reporting wheel slip issues in the wet to signallers etc.

Interesting that they all show between CDF and BRI as 'Service stop unadvertised' - that implies it wont actually operate.

3W90 didnt run today but an amended 3W91 did run today using the same pair of 69s. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:21711/2026-10-09/detailed

I would suspect given the paths exist up to christmas, they are either: Placeholder paths or GBRF are intending on using the 769s for Royal Mail. 769549 and 769535 were the two previously used for GBRF testing.

These are different paths operated by GBRF not DB

Slightly unrelated to Varamis operations but a GBRF path has appeared from 06/10 to 11/12 timed in the same way as DB Class 325s were (Electric locomotive, trailing load 325 tonnes, Planned for 100mph max) https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C01664/2026-10-20/detailed

3W90 ran today using 69003 and 69012. Hopefully the use of 69s isn’t going to be typical on these runs, after all, there is an abundance of class 73s at Tonbridge!

No surprises there then.

99009 + 99012 Operated 0Z97 1840 Perth to Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D today https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:21772/2026-10-07/detailed

Whilst not completely on topic, Rail Magazine had some interesting wording regarding the 180s in this article: https://www.railmagazine.com/news/-no-longer-commercially-viable-grand-central-withdraws-cleethorpes-plan - EDIT: ORR is expected to make an announcement on this and other OAAs...