I just had another thought. Might the works have used it either as a testbed for bodywork repair techniques, or maybe a general training facility for apprentices etc?
A Paint testing vehicle sounds plausible - Bombardier / Alstom has a Mk3 RFM at Ilford for such training, before letting it's apprentices loose on bigger and better stock (3417 being an example of this).
Not a surprise; it’s probably in pieces anyway.
Hmm. That very strange, although I think since the Potters Bar accident back in 2002, that 526, just stay there until one car use for training and the others scrapped?
0V69 Derby - Bicester 37884
Without a doubt that’s 526.
One hundred per cent 37884 cerbreus with 365525 to Newport Simms for scrap at oxford Parkway.
So I guess that now leaves 2 365s?
Yep. 506 and 536
Just what is this bit about?
Please explain what you mean by:
Basically the two types off the original networker units together ie from the 165 465 365 network southeast family. Etc from the good old British rail. days.
It doesn't make much sense does it?
This makes sense now, thank you.
I imagine that the Turbos have the advantage of being diesel powered, thus plenty of versatility. If they were powered in such a way that limited their options when the 387s came into GWR (very hypothetical parallel universe), they could have had the same fate as the 365s now, but instead they've largely been cascaded somewhere else to do the same job where they're better than what's already in place. The 465/466s won't be cascaded anywhere else with their 3rd rail limitations, but have the advantage of their fleet size being so large that complete withdrawal is a tall order, so is drawn out in effect for now.
Interesting that 3 carriages of a 465 are parked close to it in this scene as well, and what looks like 1 carriage of a 375 just behind.
Same here. Thinking about that myself with the 4652 series. However as well more interestingly the chiltern turbo alongside at Oxford Parkway was also the very first off the turbos to be built and enter service around 1991. Way ahead off the gwr turbos that might have also been the case around reading or didcot Parkway on the Belmont yard moves.
The 365's didn't get the "smiley faces" until 2001-2002.
Thank you hst43102 for the update,I meant to say I lived in Cambridge until 2006 which then would have covered the smiley trains,newbie error lol
No worries! They were in service for a while in NSE livery with the "smiley faces" - which looks very odd to me!
The smiley face mod (before and after) is my very first railway memory from childhood.
Will go for scrap due course.
