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Would this move get the 99s A-end to A-end (or B to B) to speed up some tests?

I can only assume that they’re testing ‘worst case scenario’! Come to a full stand on the steepest gradient then restart on diesel with or without boost from the battery. They may even contaminate the rail head to see what happens.

I wonder if 93001 wasn’t tested as rigorously at Velim as the 99s due to cost saving or capacity constraints.

I think that the last train to Barrow from the airport was sent through to Millom rather than swap passengers over to a Northern train which would have involved a trip through the underpass and meant that the connection was never missed. I suppose that the 185 crew were motivated to keep to time...

Could it be something to do with the difference in weights of the two types?

April 2025s Modern Railways has an article on the 99s and it gives insights into many aspects of the class. 99003 will be next but bodies for subsequent locos are in store.

I’ve just picked up from a BBC article that the redevelopment at the back of the station is due to start in the autumn. At the moment, the site appears to be a storage for materials and Matalan is still trading. Today, there were surveyors conducting measurements in preparation for the works...

To reduce the number of fishplates that need maintaining. This was done at Ravenglass some years ago before it was relaid with lwr.

Carlisle is an Avanti managed station and they dispatch all passenger trains.

N York to Colton Junction was already done as part of the ECML electrification!

New bridge(s), establish new platform, track remodelling, signalling modifications, station building modifications, regrading Botley Road and not forgetting the costs involved when the station’s unavailable because of the aforementioned. It all adds up!

In a short q&a with a driver he said that they’d removed the auto-couplers but I don’t know where or when. In view of the Swiss heritage, I expect that Stadler/ROG have been thinking ahead.

I think what you’re referring to is the camera window for when it’s equipped with an auto-coupler.

I believe that 003 was completed before the floods. Components for further locos were damaged by the water so there will be a delay after 003.

If they’d been built wider, they would have probably been too wide to travel on the rest of the network and so would have had to be delivered by road and foiled the Liverpool mayors ambition to extend services to the likes of Wigan on battery.

Possibly a decision to get them out of the docks at Portbury to avoid peak traffic times. There’s Gordano services with a lorry park with easy access to the M5 very close to the docks and could be called Avonmouth by the haulage company.

On its run to Glasgow, 93001 was running in electric mode when it arrived in Carlisle. During its stop, enthusiasts were asked not to take photos of the cab interior due to the testing which was being carried out. I can only speculate but it may have been testing electromagnetic compatibility...

I hadn’t spotted that and wondered if the three spare coaches could be inserted into 4-coach sets to bring them up to five coaches until I read #180.

Aren’t there a couple of spare 22x driving cars somewhere that could form a hybrid 5-car set?

It’s probably more a case of Railadventure winning the contract to get them from A to B and they’ve chosen rail-ferry-rail as the cheapest option rather than Stadler specifying the route.