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Mystery train at Oxford 12 March

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Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon I was pleased to see a northbound GBRf-hauled train pass through Oxford at about 15:15 but when I got home I could find no record of it on realtimetrains. I had thought that apart from local shunt moves trains can't run without a schedule. This train was a mixed consist of 20-foot containers, VGA/VKA vans and empty intermodal flats. Might it have been a Bicester (or Marchwood)-Glen Douglas MoD train conveying "Government stores" with a realtimetrains-masked schedule because of its security-sensitivity? I'm intrigued.

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Oxfordblues said:
Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon I was pleased to see a northbound GBRf-hauled train pass through Oxford at about 15:15 but when I got home I could find no record of it on realtimetrains. I had thought that apart from local shunt moves trains can't run without a schedule. This train was a mixed consist of 20-foot containers, VGA/VKA vans and empty intermodal flats. Might it have been a Bicester (or Marchwood)-Glen Douglas MoD train conveying "Government stores"
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Good guess! Actually ran as 3F02 Marchwood to Kineton





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