MikeS89

This application was withdrawn on 27/02 pending the Williams review.

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It does seem slightly odd that virtually the first major  change Virgin made to the DfT specified timetable was to insert Crewe calls into Euston-Liverpool trains,  suggesting there was surplus capacity in an hourly service, and subsequently business has presumably been lost to LNw services.

On 26/01/2020 at 00:36, 'CHARD said:

 

There are a couple on the Lichfield to Brownhills section, the first being close to, and just north of the canal aqueduct you mention, which is literally at the shunt limit of what was Charringtons' terminal at Anglesey sidings.  In the outskirts of Lichfield itself there is another one not far from Fosseway Crossing, which has been installed to facilitate housing development.

 

Of course, on the Walsall to Dudley section of what was the same arterial freight route, there are a number of structures bridging the abandoned alignment in the vicinity of Great Bridge, near to Ikea at Darlaston, and south of Dudley tunnel/ Blowers Green.

A new underbridge was also built between Wednesbury and Bescot Curve Junction to give access to the land where the Lidl distribution centre has subsequently been built.

On 03/04/2020 at 14:08, beast66606 said:

It's Minehead

Looks to be during the 1995 diesel gala - compare with

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http://www.hondawanderer.com/40145_Stogumber_1995.htm

Needless to say this did not happen.

The Crewe mk.3 set was reported working pre-Christmas but I have seen no report of any testing or training with mk.4s.

82226 is in the video mentioned earlier but last night a set with 82229 was outside at Crewe LNW and I *thought* another set inside the shed.

The list of non-compliant services on the TfW website suggests the Crewe mk.3 set is to be used temporarily on the morning departure from Cardiff and the midday return.

The box is gaining a panel from 26th March to control the Pitlochry area, although isolated from it by Dunkeld.