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  1. Matt Taylor

    Cryptic clues = station name

    It was unintentional! Blairhill is correct though.
  2. Matt Taylor

    Cryptic clues = station name

    Fell After Former Leader.
  3. Matt Taylor

    Cryptic clues = station name

    Swinderby?
  4. Matt Taylor

    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    701005 had a test run to Southsea in August 2020 and 701019 spent Christmas 2022 in Southsea Down Carriage Sidings.
  5. Matt Taylor

    Does Southern ever use their class 377/6 and 7s on non metro routes?

    377620 got trapped in Portsmouth over Easter in 2015 during a four day blockade between Havant and Chichester and spent the time running shuttles between Havant and Portsmouth Harbour.
  6. Matt Taylor

    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Saw 701039 dragged through Brookwood earlier today on 5Q15 Wembley-Eastleigh with 47749.
  7. Matt Taylor

    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    458523 did indeed move to Bournemouth today.
  8. Matt Taylor

    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    I'm sure I read somewhere that guards will still dispatch from starting stations, this would ensure competency is maintained. I may be wrong however.
  9. Matt Taylor

    E-scooter & hoverboard ban on GTR

    SWR are also introducing a ban from June 1st.
  10. Matt Taylor

    Trivia: Stations with barriers between National Rail platforms

    From my travels last month I can add Stevenage which has a barriers on platform five (Hertford Loop services) as the new platform comes out on the publicly accessed footbridge. Welwyn Garden City has barriers at the foot of the stairs to the public footbridge between platforms which largely...
  11. Matt Taylor

    Class 710 LO

    I'm not sure how relevant this is but 710376 passed West Brompton just after 0730 this morning with 5O80 Willesden Depot-Clapham (and back).
  12. Matt Taylor

    Where can I see 701 Arterios trains?

    A good way to start would be to look on Real Time Trains for trains at Eastleigh TRSMD using a headcode starting 5Q, they frequently don't run but when they do they usually start and finish there.
  13. Matt Taylor

    How does route knowledge work for stations?

    Yes i t is the same for drivers but they also sign Clapham sidings and some Basingstoke sidings.
  14. Matt Taylor

    How does route knowledge work for stations?

    I sign Basingstoke except for P5 as we cannot be routed into it, Salisbury drivers might sign P5 though. At Clapham I only sign platforms seven to eleven, I don't sign the Southern or Overground lines nor the 'Windsor lines'. As a guard our route knowledge includes, platform lengths, dispatch...
  15. Matt Taylor

    Blanking Plates On Sides Of Class 323s

    No problem, that's my picture taken back in 1995 and I think it was the first time I'd seen a 323, I also think that the 323s were the first to be built with a bodyside display panel.
  16. Matt Taylor

    Trivia: outdated posters and signage

    There's an original Permit To Travel machine at Loughborough Junction with NSE branding showing quite clearly, Windsor (SWR side) has 'Thames Valley Walks' billboard with NSE Thames Trains branding and Drayton Green has an NSE 'this platform for Castle Bar Park, South Greenford & Greenford' sign.
  17. Matt Taylor

    Southern Class 455 Withdrawal

    Reported on the system as 5816 with 5809 & 5830 on 5Z50 this afternoon.
  18. Matt Taylor

    Platforms of Last Resort

    There is some talk of reopening p2 as a through platform but that would require replacing the road bridge which wasn't future proofed when it was built.
  19. Matt Taylor

    Shortest-lived rolling stock

    Well we could start with with Class 158/159 which are still complete-at least for now. 158872 was delivered in 1992 and 159022 in 1993 so getting on for thirty years. Similar dates for Class 91 provided we ignore the 91023/91132 renumbering.
  20. Matt Taylor

    Collision and derailment near Salisbury (Fisherton Tunnel) 31/10/21

    Most likely 158884/158883 which were in Southampton bay all week.

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