Long Shot - Liskeard - Looe 14th Oct 2018

[Robin Edwards]

Is anyone able to advise a resource that may show what was operating on the Liskeard to Looe branch on 14th October 2018 please?

 

[adamkimber]

Geoff Mashall / Vicki Pipe for All the Stations visited on 13th October 2017 and again for The Looe Valley Line Story documentary on 26 Apr 2019 (video publish date). Looking at the train in the latter video it appears to be a Class 150

timecode 1:21.

On All the Stations video shows what appears to be a Class 153,

timecode 0:58

Sometime between 2017 and 2019 it looks like they changed from the 153 to the 150 trains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looe_Valley_Line notes that GWR no longer runs the 153s. Someone with more knowledge than me might be able to fill the gap as to exactly when the class 153 was decomissioned.

 

[Robin Edwards]

Geoff Mashall / Vicki Pipe for All the Stations visited on 13th October 2017 and again for The Looe Valley Line Story documentary on 26 Apr 2019 (video publish date). Looking at the train in the latter video it appears to be a Class 150

timecode 1:21.

On All the Stations video shows what appears to be a Class 153,

timecode 0:58

Sometime between 2017 and 2019 it looks like they changed from the 153 to the 150 trains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looe_Valley_Line notes that GWR no longer runs the 153s. Someone with more knowledge than me might be able to fill the gap as to exactly when the class 153 was decomissioned.

thank you @adamkimber - much appreciated. I believe it was a class 150 on 14th October

 

[fgwrich]

Equally close, 150219 was on the branch on the 22nd of October 2018, whilst 150233 was on the Newquay branch on the 15th and 247 on the Falmouth branch also on the 15th.

Given that the units are cycled around the branches each week, it could be that 233 or 247 was your Looe unit having covered the branch the day before.

 

[Robin Edwards]

Equally close, 150219 was on the branch on the 22nd of October 2018, whilst 150233 was on the Newquay branch on the 15th and 247 on the Falmouth branch also on the 15th.

Given that the units are cycled around the branches each week, it could be that 233 or 247 was your Looe unit having covered the branch the day before.

Thank you @fgwrich and @adamkimber - much appreciated

 

[55004]

If it helps 150234 was working the Looe branch on 30/10/18

 

[Robin Edwards]

thanks @55004
I tried searching photos on Flickr of the GW 150 fleet to see what might be where on dates around 14/10/18 but to be honest, I couldn't pin down too many to one route over another as they seemed to rotate between Penzance - Bristol, Newquay, Exmouth etc etc