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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    The hole extends slightly under the other track. I wouldn't walk over it, never mind drive a train.
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    Class 319 Northern departure

    Pic of the final working at Edge Hill has appeared on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/rf100/53449464868/in/dateposted/ 319369 working 2C31 2052 Wigan North Western to Liverpool Lime Street
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    Merseyrail legacy fleet updates (Class 507/508)

    I've just viewed the 1757 southport to Hunts Cross, and it's 507018, so 001 has gone AWOL somewhere. Edit, reported on the Merseyrail Faceache page it's stabled at Southport.
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    Merseyrail legacy fleet updates (Class 507/508)

    Just observed heading back as 2S42 1621 Hunts Cross to Southport
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    Class 319 Northern departure

    SIMS don't scrap them in a few hours, what they do is drag them to one side for processing. If your laying stuff out literally side by side with no space between them you can fit a lot of stock in a small space. The cutting area is away from the rail lines. This is how they can manage to take...
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    Class 43 disposals

    Moved to Kilmarnock from Haymarket, is it still there?
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    Trivia: Whats the furthest an un-rebuilt class 73 has made it off the southern?

    They have made it to Birmingham new street on Virgin CrossCountry trains, The Birmingham Cross city line on a railtour. Also I think they were used as a coupling adaptor to drag SR units to Crewe works in the late 90s
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    Phoenix railway photographic circle Journal

    For those who like creative railway photography, the Phoenix railway photographic circle has published an on-line magazine which can be found here https://issuu.com/phoenix-rpc/docs/prpc_journal_issue_2_winter_2023
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    Class 365 scrap movements + preservation discussion

    There are only 2 sidings at SIMS. if it doesn't get scrapped almost straight away, it gets dragged off the rails by grab and thrown to one side to await scrapping.
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    Abandoned wagons and rolling stock on the network

    Some did get taken to Carnforth a year or 2 ago, once they have used all the wheel sets etc from those I would presume another batch will follow.
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    Class 43 disposals

    I had reason to visit Newport docks on Thursday morning. All 3 power cars looked complete, apart from the front one having some front end damage, I'm guessing it had been shunted using a grab. By contrast the 365s that arrived later had been dragged from the rails and were sat next to each...
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    Why are the Class 70s a Micro Fleet?

    The 59 gave up its bogies to provide a spare set to enable the 59s to have bogie overhauls in the same way that a Freightliner 90 did a few years ago. Once all the 59s have had freshly overhauled bogies put under them it will get the last set put under it.
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    Freightliner Class 90s Mothballed?

    They have now been modified to reduce the current draw when running in pairs.
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    Class 365 scrap movements + preservation discussion

    There isn't a no photo rule, it's just that SIMS is within the gated confines of Newport docks, so Joe public cant just walk up to the fence and get a few snaps 1634299303 From what I understand SIMS tear it apart and let the fragmenting machine sort it out, while at Booths the grab operator...
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    Merseyrail 507's/508's

    Could seaforth just be a convenient location to load it onto road transport?

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