Trivia: GB lines served by single car trains

[Ianno87]

Odd Cambridge-Ipswich services are single 153s.

The 0642 ex-Cambridge is one (and the previous train into Cambridge that forms it). The first Ipswich-Cambridge-Ipswich return trip on a Sunday morning (returning off Cambridge 09-something) is also a single 153.

 

[PHILIPE]

150 July and August, although on a Sunday a couple of weeks ago in late July it became a single 153. The attached 153 was on 31/7/16

Today I became a coombe junction statistic again

That Sunday 153 was a one off due to no 150 available. It was back to 150 the following week.

 

[Esker-pades]

EMT service from Peterborough to Lincoln.

 

[Townsend Hook]

Am I right in remembering a Swindon-Southampton Central service with a 153?

 

[Idon'tKnow]

Coventry to Nuneaton.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

The Brigg Line sometimes uses a 153, I've seen it twice now like that.
And no one mentioned Newark Northgate yet.

 

[306024]

Does the Sudbury to Marks Tey line still use single car trains?

At weekends. Class 156 all day Monday to Friday. If a 153 turns up Mon to Fri then a bus will supplement the train for the busier peak trips.

 

[scrapy]

Lancaster to Morecambe

 

[Esker-pades]

Lancaster to Morecambe

I thought that was a 150/Pacer.
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Am I right in remembering a Swindon-Southampton Central service with a 153?

If that goes via Melksham, I'm pretty sure that's right.

 

[postye]

I thought that was a 150/Pacer.
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Yesterday It was a mixture of 142, 144, 150, 153 and 156.
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I thought that was a 150/Pacer.
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If that goes via Melksham, I'm pretty sure that's right.

Doesnt run to Southampton at the moment, most turn at Westbury with a couple going through to Frome

 

[PHILIPE]

I thought that was a 150/Pacer.
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If that goes via Melksham, I'm pretty sure that's right.

It was in days off yore, Currently SWT 158 (lease unit) The 1915 Westbury to Southampton and 2125 Southampton to Bristol TM Satudays currently is a 153 running as a Class 9 as a tip to signallers that it cannot use Platform 3 at Salisbury in the Down Direction due to it becoming out of gauge following Engineering Work which Network Rail are supposed to be rectifying. (SOMETIME !!!)

 

[KTHV]

I'm a big fan of the Stourbridge Town - Stourbridge Junction Connector

 

[martinsh]

Derby - Crewe probably has the most varied of fleets with 153, 156, 158, 156/158 hybrid, 222 and on at least one occasion an HST.

Good luck with finding anything other than a 153 if you just turn up on the off-chance !

There is a regular 158 working 1742 ex Derby and 1907 return on weekdays. And the most likely strengthening is a 156 replacing a 153 which then doubles up. 222 only if major events, or major (planned) disruption on WCML.