2022 New Haulages

[Peter Mugridge]

Well, here we go again, another year...

Hopefully this year we aren't going to have any loss of opportunity to get out there and see the new stock waiting on your lists!

Meanwhile, this thread is freshly ex-works and ready to enter service tomorrow.

 

[Techniquest]

Ooh I'm the first to post on this!

01/01/2022

802010

1 more 802/0 to go!

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Ooh I'm the first to post on this!

01/01/2022

802010

1 more 802/0 to go!

Good luck with the last 802/0. I’ve cleared the class and I can tell you, it becomes a lot easier when the rather hefty GWR fleet is done, and I say that living miles from TPE and twenty minutes from the GWML

 

[Kite159]

1st Jan

Cleared for mileage needs
376017
376021
376025
378146
378149
465162
465173
466001
466031

Wasn't expecting to get so much for South Eastern with the heavily reduced service they were running due to engineering works. 2 more of the DC 378s done, just leaves 378148 to try and locate for a long run (as it's on something stupid like 0.2 miles)

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

2/1

345001
345050 (7 more for class inc. 5 not yet accepted)
720546
720563
720568
720571 (all 42 accepted ones cleared)
801202 (5 more for class)
803005 (2 more for class)*

*Dispatcher was yelling something at me and waving his hands as I boarded this one at Stevenage; sadly I had my headphones in so I didn’t hear a word he said! What an odd way of telling me the London train had arrived.

Back to Wales (a country where all units are dud) on Friday… sadly my only requirements there, 67s, are not shown on staff or RTT systems so it’s a waiting game.

 

[Techniquest]

03/01/2022

802005

Yeehaa! All of the GWR 800s and 802s are now done 153909 remains on my hitlist, that I see is showing as on Pembroke Dock services today. Bit too far to go there and back to Hereford now, maybe it'll be somewhere more convenient tomorrow!

 

[NorthWestRover]

Monday 3rd Januuary 2022

195124 Three 195/1s to go...
331014 Almost down to single figures for the 331/0s...

 

[Techniquest]

Monday 3rd Januuary 2022

195124 Three 195/1s to go...
331014 Almost down to single figures for the 331/0s...

Doing well there! I need a good session in the North West for the CAF units too, the 195s I'm a long way from done but that was due to focusing on the older stuff. With the 150s and 158s done (the 156s I want I think are all allocated to Heaton, must check that soon) and the 153s all in store to probably never come out in service again, I'll be focusing heavily on the 195s next time I'm in Manchester.

I think I'm also in single figures for the 331/0s, and just 3 769s with Northern to go. You know, all this thinking about red penning in the North West has me really wanting to go to Manchester ASAP...

 

[D841 Roebuck]

First day at work in 2022. First homeward tram is required 3130 (with dud 3084).

 

[Techniquest]

My last active 153 was showing all day as allocated to the 1602 from Cardiff to Fishguard, as part of a trio of 153s. I decided not to go for it, but then at 1415 I changed my mind and jumped back on the bike (following a challenging ride in the wind) to get to the station in time for the 1438 as far as Cardiff.

Imagine my dismay when, despite the service actually being quadruple 153s, my last one was not actually on it after all Wasted £23.80 on fares, £2.09 on a Tim Hortons Dark Roast (but that was nice!) and £13.25 on a vegan burger and fries at TGI Fridays as a result. Expensive afternoon out, but at least there were some gains out of it!

I was having my meal when the 1816 and the 1825 to Ystrad Mynach and Barry Island respectively left, watch now I'll end up finding out 153909 worked one of those...

 

[Kite159]

Doing well there! I need a good session in the North West for the CAF units too, the 195s I'm a long way from done but that was due to focusing on the older stuff. With the 150s and 158s done (the 156s I want I think are all allocated to Heaton, must check that soon) and the 153s all in store to probably never come out in service again, I'll be focusing heavily on the 195s next time I'm in Manchester.

I think I'm also in single figures for the 331/0s, and just 3 769s with Northern to go. You know, all this thinking about red penning in the North West has me really wanting to go to Manchester ASAP...

Likewise, a good day trip to the Manchester area for me. See if any of my last 3x Northern 769s are floating around, as well as any of my last 3x 397s, before focusing on the trams. Doing what I did in August and setting up a chair at Cornbrook to keep an eye on movements as the run to Deansgate is reasonably fast and over a mile so win-win both ways.

 

[43096]

My last active 153 was showing all day as allocated to the 1602 from Cardiff to Fishguard, as part of a trio of 153s. I decided not to go for it, but then at 1415 I changed my mind and jumped back on the bike (following a challenging ride in the wind) to get to the station in time for the 1438 as far as Cardiff.

Imagine my dismay when, despite the service actually being quadruple 153s, my last one was not actually on it after all Wasted £23.80 on fares, £2.09 on a Tim Hortons Dark Roast (but that was nice!) and £13.25 on a vegan burger and fries at TGI Fridays as a result. Expensive afternoon out, but at least there were some gains out of it!

I was having my meal when the 1816 and the 1825 to Ystrad Mynach and Barry Island respectively left, watch now I'll end up finding out 153909 worked one of those...

It's how it all used to be before RTT started making getting winners easy. As the stock for that train comes off Canton, it's possible for set swaps to be made from the allocated formation through the day.

Just remember that for every time you get bowled, there will be a payback when you get winner after winner after winner. I'm sure everyone's experienced it: the day when nothing goes to plan, then the day when everything turns to gold.

 

[Techniquest]

It's how it all used to be before RTT started making getting winners easy. As the stock for that train comes off Canton, it's possible for set swaps to be made from the allocated formation through the day.

Just remember that for every time you get bowled, there will be a payback when you get winner after winner after winner. I'm sure everyone's experienced it: the day when nothing goes to plan, then the day when everything turns to gold.

Oh indeed, it's easy to forget how much harder things used to be. I have been quite fortunate in recent times to have my last 802/0s all fall relatively easily, not quite the way I'd have liked but the last one worked out beautifully. It could be considered that I was getting greedy, and that perhaps I should have stayed in to do the big clean I was meant to be doing!

It worked out OK in the end though, I got a good bit of a walkabout in Cardiff for this month's walking challenge on Strava, found a new 100% vegan restaurant which will get my custom next time I'm in Cardiff (I'd already made reservations at TGI Fridays) and it got me away from covidiots up this way. Let's not go there!

 

[Kite159]

3/1:
Cleared for mileage

376004
376028
376032
465014

After finishing my walk along the Regents Canal I stayed south of the River and had a social catchup. Another visit to that area is on the cards when there isn't so much engineering works on (and hence more trains out)

 

[KT550]

	5-Jan-2022
376010	Southeastern	Ladywell (LAD)	to	London Cannon Street (CST)
*
466019	Southeastern	Waterloo East (WAE)	to	Ladywell (LAD)
*
720542	Greater Anglia	Chelmsford (CHM)	to	Marks Tey (MKT)
720551	Greater Anglia	Marks Tey (MKT)	to	Chelmsford (CHM)
*
755335	Greater Anglia	Marks Tey (MKT)	to	Sudbury (SUY)

 

[KT550]

07 Jan 2022

158749	Great Western Railway	Southampton Central (SOU)	to	Fareham (FRM)
158885	South Western Railway	Eastleigh (ESL)	to	Swaythling (SWG)
*
450066	South Western Railway	Southampton Airport Parkway (SOA)	to	Southampton Central (SOU)

 

[APT618S]

08/01/22

60163 Tornado

 

[Andy Pacer]

08/01/22

376017
376025
450020
450042
455723
455724
455856
455860
455866
455869
455914
456003
456014
465026
465028
465029
465031
465038
465157
465165
465169
465181
465186
466017
466027
700043
707016

 

[Kite159]

8/1

345025
345046
717011
720567
720577

Cleared for mileage:
376023
378148 (Last 378, no more having to fester on the East London Line, actually got lucky as it was the first southbound train which rolled in when I arrived at Shadwell)
466003
DLR 120

 

[Peter Mugridge]

10/01/22

720 521
720 554
720 578
720 580
720 581

801 208

 

[D841 Roebuck]

11/01/21 - Metrolink 3134

 

[Segedunum]

09/01/22

331105

10/01/22

377155
387219
450027

11/01/22

802302

 

[NorthWestRover]

Wednesday 12th January 2022

158754 - another of the Northern fleet ticked off.

 

[Techniquest]

I have a nice big list to post here, but I am going to share it after I share the trip report. There's a 5 day trip report coming up, and I still need to proof-read it all yet, which I'm going to start doing on the journey back to Hereford. Need something to do for 70 minutes!

For reasons unknown, I'm not getting notifications for this thread!

 

[KT550]

A couple of days in Greater Manchester, routing London-York-Selby-Leeds-Manchester netted these:

150001	Northern	Manchester Victoria (MCV)	to	Hall i' th' Wood (HID)	12-Jan-2022
150002	Northern	Hall i' th' Wood (HID)	to	Manchester Victoria (MCV)	12-Jan-2022
150005	Northern	Salford Crescent (SLD)	to	Bolton (BON)	12-Jan-2022
150006	Northern	Manchester Victoria (MCV)	to	Bolton (BON)	12-Jan-2022
150103	Northern	Stockport (SPT)	to	Levenshulme (LVM)	12-Jan-2022
150113	Northern	Hazel Grove (HAZ)	to	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	13-Jan-2022
150119	Northern	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	to	Rose Hill Marple (RSH)	12-Jan-2022
150138	Northern	Woodsmoor (WSR)	to	Davenport (DVN)	12-Jan-2022
150141	Northern	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	to	Hazel Grove (HAZ)	13-Jan-2022
	*
155344	Northern	York (YRK)	to	Selby (SBY)	11-Jan-2022
	*
156423	Northern	Bolton (BON)	to	Salford Crescent (SLD)	12-Jan-2022
156427	Northern	Flixton (FLI)	to	Manchester Oxford Road (MCO)	11-Jan-2022
156428	Northern	Warrington Central (WAC)	to	Widnes (WID)	11-Jan-2022
156464	Northern	Manchester Oxford Road (MCO)	to	Urmston (URM)	11-Jan-2022
	*
158770	East Midlands Railway	Manchester Oxford Road (MCO)	to	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	11-Jan-2022
158905	Northern	Selby (SBY)	to	Church Fenton (CHF)	11-Jan-2022
	*
175107	Transport for Wales	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	to	Stockport (SPT)	13-Jan-2022
175114	Transport for Wales	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	to	Stockport (SPT)	12-Jan-2022
	*
180105	Grand Central	London King's Cross (KGX)	to	York (YRK)	11-Jan-2022
	*
195114	Northern	Hebden Bridge (HBD)	to	Manchester Victoria (MCV)	11-Jan-2022
195120	Northern	Padgate (PDG)	to	Warrington Central (WAC)	11-Jan-2022
195124	Northern	Church Fenton (CHF)	to	Hebden Bridge (HBD)	11-Jan-2022
195129	Northern	Ardwick (ADK)	to	Fairfield (FRF)	12-Jan-2022
	*
319370	Northern	Heaton Chapel (HTC)	to	Manchester Piccadilly (MAN)	12-Jan-2022
319379	Northern	Patricroft (PAT)	to	Heald Green (HDG)	13-Jan-2022
	*
323230	Northern	Burnage (BNA)	to	Gatley (GTY)	13-Jan-2022
323232	Northern	Flowery Field (FLF)	to	Glossop (GLO)	12-Jan-2022
323233	Northern	Gatley (GTY)	to	East Didsbury (EDY)	13-Jan-2022
323237	Northern	Manchester Oxford Road (MCO)	to	Eccles (ECC)	13-Jan-2022
	*
331002	Northern	Levenshulme (LVM)	to	Hazel Grove (HAZ)	12-Jan-2022
331011	Northern	Davenport (DVN)	to	Heaton Chapel (HTC)	12-Jan-2022
331018	Northern	Deansgate (DGT)	to	Horwich Parkway (HWI)	12-Jan-2022
331020	Northern	Horwich Parkway (HWI)	to	Bolton (BON)	12-Jan-2022
	*
377161	Southern	Gatwick Airport (GTW)	to	London Bridge (LBG)	11-Jan-2022
	*
769442	Northern	Bolton (BON)	to	Deansgate (DGT)	12-Jan-2022
769448	Northern	Cheadle Hulme (CHU)	to	Manchester Oxford Road (MCO)	13-Jan-2022

 

[KT550]

A day in the Chilterns....

15 Jan 2022

165001	Chiltern Railways	Seer Green & Jordans (SRG)	to	London Marylebone (MYB)
165010	Chiltern Railways	Princes Risborough (PRR)	to	Saunderton (SDR)
165020	Chiltern Railways	London Marylebone (MYB)	to	Haddenham & Thame Parkway (HDM)
	*
168322	Chiltern Railways	Kings Sutton (KGS)	to	Princes Risborough (PRR)
168324	Chiltern Railways	Bicester North (BCS)	to	Kings Sutton (KGS)

 

[Kite159]

16th Jan

385101 (Class Cleared )
800109 (Sub-Class Cleared) [with the bonus of being on my booked train to London!]

 

[Peter Mugridge]

16th Jan
800109 (Sub-Class Cleared) [with the bonus of being on my booked train to London!]

Arrgghhh... that's one of only three Zoomy Things that I still need!!! ( The other two being 801 201 and 801 203 ).

 

[Kite159]

Arrgghhh... that's one of only three Zoomy Things that I still need!!! ( The other two being 801 201 and 801 203 ).

I was going to get it back in October as it was working an Aberdeen - London train on a Sunday but it was the day the ECML fell over with the northbound Lumo getting cancelled at Newcastle. (I escaped on the 'relief' they put on around 13;50odd).

I was happy when I saw it allocated to the Inverness train on Saturday morning as it would be my booked train home on the Sunday for the long trip via Cambridge.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I was going to get it back in October as it was working an Aberdeen - London train on a Sunday but it was the day the ECML fell over with the northbound Lumo getting cancelled at Newcastle. (I escaped on the 'relief' they put on around 13;50odd).

I was happy when I saw it allocated to the Inverness train on Saturday morning as it would be my booked train home on the Sunday for the long trip via Cambridge.

Yes, I've been watching it and saw it was on the Chieftain and knew it would be coming back and when, but unable to get out after it...

It wasn't out today, so I have a nasty feeling that tomorrow it'll be doing one multi stop into London from Leeds then escape me on the 10.00 or 12.00. I have a 16.00 ear appointment, so wouldn't be able to pursue it or the other two unless I can pick it up at Stevenage in a rather narrow time slot...