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2C31 2052 Wigan North Western to Liverpool Lime Street
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.
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...
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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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.
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...
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.
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
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From what I understand SIMS tear it apart and let the fragmenting machine sort it out, while at Booths the grab operator...