Lost property - train diagram

[Rumelik]

I left my mobile phone on the 21:41 service from Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton on Friday 22nd Septermber. I tracked it and it appears to have travelled between Birmingham and Wolverhampton but it went dead fairly quickly. I have reported it on MissingX, but wondered if anyone knew what diagram the train was on, hence which depot it would end up in for overnight cleaning. The train was a London Northwestern liveried Class 350. Lesson learned - always fully charge your phone before starting any journey. (probably obvious to many).

 

[Train Boy]

I left my mobile phone on the 21:41 service from Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton on Friday 22nd Septermber. I tracked it and it appears to have travelled between Birmingham and Wolverhampton but it went dead fairly quickly. I have reported it on MissingX, but wondered if anyone knew what diagram the train was on, hence which depot it would end up in for overnight cleaning. The train was a London Northwestern liveried Class 350. Lesson learned - always fully charge your phone before starting any journey. (probably obvious to many).

I'm not to familiar with the LNWR operation, but from a quick look at RealTimeTrains, it appears the unit might have done this:
2W62 2107 Walsall to Wolverhampton 2207
2W65 2218 Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street 2248
2W68 2312 Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton 2339
2W71 2348 Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street 0015
2C16 0041 Birmingham New Street to Coventry 0112*
5C16 0120 Coventry to Coventry Yard 0125*

*This is depending on if it coupled to 1Y81 2150 London Euston to Birmingham New Street at New Street, if so would've then worked to Coventry.

If this is the case, the unit is in Coventry Yard until tomorrow morning, but I must reiterate I'm unfamiliar with LNWR.

 

[Rumelik]

Many thanks, Train Boy, I really appreciate this. It certainly explains why the phone was only moving between Wolverhampton and Birmingham until it went dead. I'll just have to hope that it's found by the cleaning team at Coventry as I expect it went down the side of the seat and probably isn't in plain sight. I suppose the next question would be whether there is public domain information that would link a specific train to a service. I found the live.rail-record.co.uk site and it indeed gave me 5C16 for WMT to Coventry yard, but said it was a Turbostar. More work to do! I wonder where I would start?

 

[Robski]

I'm not to familiar with the LNWR operation, but from a quick look at RealTimeTrains, it appears the unit might have done this:
2W62 2107 Walsall to Wolverhampton 2207
2W65 2218 Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street 2248
2W68 2312 Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton 2339
2W71 2348 Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street 0015
2C16 0041 Birmingham New Street to Coventry 0112*
5C16 0120 Coventry to Coventry Yard 0125*

*This is depending on if it coupled to 1Y81 2150 London Euston to Birmingham New Street at New Street, if so would've then worked to Coventry.

If this is the case, the unit is in Coventry Yard until tomorrow morning, but I must reiterate I'm unfamiliar with LNWR.

Darwin suggests:
2W62 21:07 Walsall to Wolverhampton
2W65 22:19 Wolverhampton to Birmingham NS
-- Service joins 2G68 from Crewe --
5W65 23:00 Birmingham NS to Wolverhampton Carriage Sidings

Today, the train may have formed
5A13 09:12 to Wolverhampton
5H47 09:15 to Birmingham NS
-- Service divides to form the following --
2H47 09:45 to Rugeley Trent Valley
2K46 09:52 to Crewe

I don't have a way of verifying that it definitely formed 5A13, but the siding is just one track so I think its a safe bet. It's going to be impossible to tell where the phone is now, if it's still on the train.

EDIT: Apologies, I looked at the data for 23/09/2023, not 22/09/2023. Train Boy's post is correct.

 

[skyhigh]

Unit in question was 350372, it appears to have been at Coventry Yard since 0125 on 23/09.

5C16 was indeed 372 so it seems it went into the Yard at end of service and remain there.

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I'm not to familiar with the LNWR operation, but from a quick look at RealTimeTrains, it appears the unit might have done this:
2W62 2107 Walsall to Wolverhampton 2207
2W65 2218 Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street 2248
2W68 2312 Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton 2339
2W71 2348 Wolverhampton to Birmingham New Street 0015
2C16 0041 Birmingham New Street to Coventry 0112*
5C16 0120 Coventry to Coventry Yard 0125*

*This is depending on if it coupled to 1Y81 2150 London Euston to Birmingham New Street at New Street, if so would've then worked to Coventry.

If this is the case, the unit is in Coventry Yard until tomorrow morning, but I must reiterate I'm unfamiliar with LNWR.

This is correct.

 

[Rumelik]

Many thanks Robski and skyhigh. Much appreciated. If nothing else this is a worthwhile insight into what information can be gleaned.