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Northern Belle stock, 11th Feb?

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Hi everyone,

Driving just North of Retford station yesterday I noticed this stock, headed by 67005, on the down loop that is accessed via Platform 2, but on an 'up' working.

This is a most unusual position for a train to be in IME. Does anyone know what was going on, or where the stock was going from or to?
 
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Trains can travel from the north via Babworth loop into platform two and continue southwards,all mainline signalled.
 
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Thankyou for your reply.

It might well have been the case. I just thought it strange as usually, if an "up" train needs to be sidelined to let something past, they usually just pull it into Platform 1. Doing it the other way means crossing the down line twice, once to use the Platform 2 loop and once to rejoin the up line.

I thought it might be an ECS move of some sort, but looking at the Railtour itinery I couldn't work out why the train would be there either!
 
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