The Rail Enthusiast thread

[albion]

No photo, but I spotted the Royal Scotsman leaving Carlisle station at 12.08 last Monday.
Seems it was meant to be on a 5 day Clans, Castles and Isles trip.
Makes me wonder if they included a tour of Carlisle Castle, something I did between trains that day.
If the 5 dayer actually ran, train tickets are about £14,300.

 

[Paulus]

71000 Duke of Gloucester working hard on the down mainline at New Barnet this morning on its way to Ely.

 

[Spartak]

Whilst waiting for my delayed Cross Country train from Bristol Parkway to Leeds this morning 57306 & 99010 passed thru the station.

 

[Paulus]

99010 must of just been delivered and being towed to Leicester.

 

[Spartak]

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Whilst waiting for my delayed Cross Country train from Bristol Parkway to Leeds this morning 57306 & 99010 passed thru the station.

... my day continued north & after arriving at Leeds, I took my folding bike out for a ride along the Trans Pennine Trail to Woodlesford, as I arrived at the station my Insta360 X3 caught the following ... !!!


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/R2qoPzwR7vY?is=y-bzUVxrGksq-DHS

50049 + Two 31 's + 55009

 

[Spartak]

Followed by a boring Class 150 DMU ...

 

[Spartak]

London bound LNER service at Leeds today ...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Followed by a boring Class 150 DMU ...

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Nay man, that's the best bit! 😆

 

[robjh]

Followed by a boring Class 150 DMU ...

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These are 40 years old now. You'll miss them when they're gone.

(Like I only learned to love the 317s on my local line when I knew they were going to be imminently phased out).

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Regarding yesterday's crash, what were the chances that both units had numbers ending in '15'? 🤔

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yeah 360115 and 810015.

Weird!

Both ending in the same number, '15... One now wonders how many times that has happened?

Also, consecutive numbers too... 🤔