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    Fastline on Cumbrian WCML?

    Hello Can anyone help me with any knowledge of Fastline wagons being on northern WCML workings? I know of the Doncaster-Grain working; and the Ratcliffe coal workings. And I know that 66434 in it's Fastline livery was with DRS so appeared on WCML intermodals... but did the wagons too? Were...
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    When were FGAs running in WCML Cumbria?

    Until when were FGA freightliners with inners and outers running in WCML freightliners and intermodals, eg Coatbridge and Mossend workings? Particularly interested in when they'd have been seen passing through Cumbria: Carlisle, Penrith, Shap. I don't seem to have any photos of them, were they...
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    China Clay silver bullets - different brandings

    Apologies if this is the wrong location, and I'm not sure it merits an entire thread, as it's only one simple question... China Clay silver bullet wagons Are there / were there ever mixed trains of the Nacco livery or Nacco/ECC livery and the Ermewa livery? Or were these two distinct flows and...
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    GBRf in Cumbria / WCML

    I love seeing the GBRf 66s and fun liveries on their routes, but it struck me I don’t see any on the WCML freightliners or intermodal, or any other traffic come to that. Are there any GBRf workings up the northern WCML between Preston and Carlisle??? Or any other reasons a GBRf 66 could visit...
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    Aggregates freights flows Cumbrian WCML

    Dear Forum (Please place this in the right place if this is wrong.) I am trying to get a handle on whether any aggregates freight working still traverse the WCML in Cumbria. In particular are those HHAs and the HIAs still to be found on the northern WCML? I have plenty of memories of EWS and...
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    Class 20s in action

    https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K04161/2020-05-14/detailed Leicester to Eastleigh today (14/05/20) had a delightful pair of 20s... seen at Oxford
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    Like air traffic control at key junctions...

    Checking Traksy to see if a southbound freight had passed through yet, I scrolled to Wolvercote Junction just north of Oxford, where the four tracks through Oxford funnel back down to two, with ample distance to hold freights whilst passenger services scurry through. One evening in early March...
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    Maiden Voyagers... 43063 and 220001

    Good morning Apologies if this is not the right place, or this has been discussed before... I just have a question: Which came first? 43063 Virgin HST being named "Maiden Voyager", or 220001 Virgin Voyager being named "Maiden Voyager"? Was it on the 43 and then put on the new 220 as the first...

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