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It's across all TOCs, so my thought was also as poster above, April 1st.! 
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Mitchell Hurd
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Here's one for 1V44 
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...Realtime Trains | 1V44 0611 Leeds to Plymouth | 01/04/2022
Real-time train running information for 1V44 0611 departure from Leeds to Plymouth on 01/04/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
ANDREW_D_WEBB
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Reminds me of the year Rail ran a story that numbers on rolling stock were to be replaced by barcodes. Suggestion was to photograph everything and get the supermarket till to read them!It's across all TOCs, so my thought was also as poster above, April 1st.!
03_179
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Not a bad idea now as almost everyone a mobile capable of scanning a barcode lol
Jamesrob637
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Train numbers are appearing as Roman numerals this morning across all TOCs.
Very handy
Very handy
Andy Pacer
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Evidently you've not read the last few posts in this thread!Train numbers are appearing as Roman numerals this morning across all TOCs.
Very handy
Falcon1200
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The April 1st explanation makes more sense than my first thought when checking some Scotrail trains, that it was due to the Scottish Government takeover !
hexagon789
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It's not a glitch! It's deliberate
Andy Pacer
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As has been discussed in the past 10 or so posts!It's not a glitch! It's deliberate
hexagon789
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I've only just logged in and none of them displayed until after I'd replied to the OP.
But I do see that now!
Andy Pacer
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Fair point - it happens to me a fair bit as well actually, usually when i'm participating in the games section!
I wonder if anyone will realistically try and work out all their trains using the roman numerals...
hexagon789
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That would be me!
I did it twice to see if they matched correctly with the listed number, while trying earlier to fathom what was going on before I clocked the date and so on
StephenHunter
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Handy they've been split as 43285 would need a vinculum...
py_megapixel
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It looks like one of the locomotives has become detached from the train!Here's one for 1V44
Realtime Trains | 1V44 0611 Leeds to Plymouth | 01/04/2022
Real-time train running information for 1V44 0611 departure from Leeds to Plymouth on 01/04/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
Andy Pacer
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Oh yes, good spot!! Assuming its intentional
Ego, ante meridiem
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Andy Pacer
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And will they all revert back at 12 noon?
Sadly yes they have
Peter Mugridge
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Rees-Mogg probably would... and he'd probably ask that it become a permanent change as well...
greatkingrat
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They should go the whole hog and make the times Roman numerals as well!
The next train from platform VII will be the XIV:XXXVIII
The next train from platform VII will be the XIV:XXXVIII
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eastwestdivide
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If you look reeeeallly closely, there's a special extended coupling bar between the power car and the coach, which is needed because the number in Roman numerals is longer than the power car itself. That engineering solution required a lot of thought at Laira when they found out the renumbering was going to happen.
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Being pedantic as the loco number is 43285 not 43 285, I would have given the number as CXLIIIϽCCLXXXV.
I couldn’t work out a reasonable way of doing it for multiple units without an absurd number of Ms as I only worked on it for about 15 minutes, so the TOPS split between class and vehicle was necessary to not break the page
D6130
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That could open a whole new can of worms! When the TOPS renumbering scheme was first introduced in 1973(?), the idea was to distinguish between the class number and loco number....and most of the early renumbered locos had their numbers painted with a space between the class number and loco number, continental-style, and that is the way I have always written them. At some later stage the documentation was changed to show a single five digit number.
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But as HST power cars were originally numbered as coaching stock there is no class number...
StephenHunter
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There was for the original formations - 253 for the 2+7 GWML versions and 254 for the 2+8 ECML ones. 43002 in the NRM has 253 001 on the front as a result.
That was before they started swapping power cars around, hence the change. The GWR 2+5 rakes are formally known in house as Class 255, but no fixed unit formations exist. Which was the case for most of the first generation DMUs.
That was before they started swapping power cars around, hence the change. The GWR 2+5 rakes are formally known in house as Class 255, but no fixed unit formations exist. Which was the case for most of the first generation DMUs.
Falcon1200
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It was an excellent April Fool spoof, well done and thank you (and yes, I did work out some set numbers from the Roman numerals before realising the 'proper' number was shown further down the page !)
Yes thank you @Tom you really excelled yourself with this years April Fool!
Yes, X out of X for effort!