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Where does the abbey flyer 321 stay overnight?

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Where does the 321 operating the Watford-St Albans Abbey line stay overnight? I can't see any movements on RTT but it seems unlikely that it would stay in platform 11 all night. Does anyone know?
 
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It stays in platform 11 all night, swaps over on Sunday afternoon. At the moment there is a second 321 just south of platform 11 at Watford, currently out of order with an AWS failure. Second failure on the branch in not very long; the trains are getting unreliable as they thin out!
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http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P70930/2015/09/13/advanced - the last run of the week's 321 on the Abbey.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P73525/2015/09/13/advanced - then forms this, going straight down to Euston then back up to Northampton.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P73298/2015/09/13/advanced - whilst the new one arrives from Northampton...
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P70936/2015/09/13/advanced - forming this. Note the WTT time is 2 minutes later than the PTT due to the swap meaning the train arrives slightly late for the hourly pattern.
 
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Thank you, Causton. I wonder why the train going from Watford to Northampton needs to go via Euston? Could you explain your final comments about WTT and PTT? Thanks again.
 
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aal7 said:
Thank you, Causton. I wonder why the train going from Watford to Northampton needs to go via Euston? Could you explain your final comments about WTT and PTT? Thanks again.
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there is no northbound connection from the Abbey branch to the WCML so the train has to run south. I guess Euston is the most convenient place to turn it
 
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DarloRich said:
there is no northbound connection from the Abbey branch to the WCML so the train has to run south. I guess Euston is the most convenient place to turn it
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We took it out during the resig as it was an utter nightmare to maintain and caused a TSR on the Up Fast.
 
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I hope it is not lonely, it would be better to run it up to Bletchley so it could stay with its friends
 
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At the moment (it might be gone) there seems to be a 321 stabled next to it with a fault, after last week one had a TPWS failure and this week one had an AWS failure! So it's not lonely. It gets to look at the trains passing by on the slow lines as well overnight ;)
 
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