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Class 31s on the main line?

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Iskra

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It's a 'Q' schedule (which I failed to see) so was probably intended for 50008
It has a 31 head code, the 50 normally runs with 50 or 08?

Didn’t the 31 work back into Knottingley at somepoint more recently than Tuesday?
 

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31128 worked todays 1103 0P31 Burton OT Wetmore Sidings to Princes Risborough ACE for the Chinnor Diesel Gala
 

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31128 worked yesterdays 0O31 Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings to Strawberry Hill C.S.D.
With 31210.

It also worked 5Z31 Strawberry Hill C.S.D. to Alton with 423417 in tow

31210 was left at Strawberry Hill due to a Seized axelbox.
 

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31128 is due to work 5K31 Alton to Strawberry Hill C.S.D. on 13/07/26

It will then work 0M31 Strawberry Hill C.S.D. to Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings

Although no ideas if 31210 will be on the Light loco back to Burton as i have no idea if its seized axelbox has been fixed.
 

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31128 is due to work 5K31 Alton to Strawberry Hill C.S.D. on 13/07/26

It will then work 0M31 Strawberry Hill C.S.D. to Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings

Although no ideas if 31210 will be on the Light loco back to Burton as i have no idea if its seized axelbox has been fixed.
I know why they are doing that route, but a scheduled time between Twickenham and Strawberry Hill of 1 hour and 21 minutes has got to be some kind of record?
 

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I know why they are doing that route, but a scheduled time between Twickenham and Strawberry Hill of 1 hour and 21 minutes has got to be some kind of record?
I’d suggest - Head on, no run-rounds, path available.
 

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I’d suggest - Head on, no run-rounds, path available.
It is definitely a logical path, just quite funny that it passes a few hundred metres away from the depot (as the crow flies) and yet takes that long to get there. I do love the quirks of railways operations.

I think there was a Hastings Unit tour year ago where it went through West Hampstead (overground) and took an hour and a half to get to West Hampstead Thameslink.
 

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Although no ideas if 31210 will be on the Light loco back to Burton as i have no idea if its seized axelbox has been fixed.
31210 has been fixed as it is on the back of 0M31.

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31128 ran yesterdays 0Z31 Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings to Grosmont North Yorks Moors , going off hire from H&H and back to the NYMR

 
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