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  1. 40044
    It was a regular booked move for a few years. It doesn't happen these days, the vast majority of TGO moves by road now. I think only Neville Hill and Ipswich still take their fuel in by rail.
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    Oh I completely agree, but I can also see how events could be twisted by certain parties to aid the DOO cause.
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    [cynic mode]Dangerous folk, these Merseyrail Guards. Best hurry up and make the system DOO....[/cynic mode]
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    AIUI - Guard closes passenger doors and checks all appears ok. Guard then closes his local door (which don't have opening windows on 507/508 stock), and bells the train away.
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    https://www.flickr.com/photos/72996689@N02/23069766266/in/dateposted/
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    I'm a bit lost with this. 158s took over directly from 47s & LHCS on the Liverpool/Newcastle trains in January 1991 but I don't recall any LHCS substitutions on these trains afterwards and I was working at Lime St at the time. 150s had been working Scarborough/Holyhead trains etc from the late 1980s.
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    RES was launched in October 1991. The Trans-Pennine trains went over to Class 158s in January 1991. Therefore RES-liveried locos did not work these trains.
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    Think it might reduce bio from Tyne in the short term but then it'll ramp up again when another unit at Drax is converted next year.
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    It's to work the new Liverpool - Drax biomass trains between the docks and Tuebrook.
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    Off to the NW tomorrow: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R02376/2015/10/12/advanced
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    Tags are still used to this day in some yards. Old habits die hard! 2 numbers and a letter are normally for local tags which are extended back to other areas to ensure trains arrive pre-formed. 822 would be the generic Westbury Yard tag but if Westbury requested that traffic for, say, the cement works didn't arrive 'rough' then incoming trains would have a separate 82x section.
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    Yes, at the P. D. Stirling terminal.
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    Another satisfied customer here. I bought a few packets of various wagon transfers the other week, they really are simplicity itself to apply. Excellent after sales service too! A couple of bespoke sets of transfers are already on order.
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    At least 2 pairs. One pair based at Birkenhead which were those taken to Ellesmere Port, and a pair based at Allerton for tripping the stock in from Hunts Cross.
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    Still there in November 2009: https://flic.kr/p/bmwEjf After taking the pic, I moved them to a siding where the scrap man could take them away for scrapping, and that was that.
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    They are from a Toton to Stanlow depot fuel train which derailed either late 1995 or early 1996
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    The 06:12 Lime St - Newcastle used to be the best bet for an ex-works ScR 47, although the 16:05 ex Lime St was also used
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    Think they are former Freightliner MJAs, used in gypsum traffic from West Burton to Avonmouth.
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    We had a number of them installed on the most heavily used roads at Arpley. I can only assume that they must have been designed by a member of the breakdown crew as some kind of ploy to keep them in overtime & callout payments. Not seen any in use for a long time now, thankfully.
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    Track inside the shed was mostly set in concrete. Last used in the early 1990s for wagon repairs, loading concrete troughing for Merseyrail resignalling, and the occasional ferryvan of potatoes off the train ferry.
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    One from me:
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    56083, Ashton-in-Makerfield, 3rd July 2002.
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    Causes a fair bit of confusion these days when they go 'off region' with no tail lamp displayed, just the red blinds.
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    Foster Yeoman aluminium-bodied PHA/PXAs. They weren't a huge success and were scrapped after a few years in traffic.
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    56028 & 56009, Llandudno, 11th August 1991.
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