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    Trains You Would Love To See On Your Local Line

    ECML expresses hauled by Deltics and 47's, semi-fast's and stoppers hauled by 31's & 37's, 45's on the Trans-pennines, slam door DMU's on the Tyneside loop, double headed 50's on the WCML and Westerns on the GW main line please....oh and everything blue & grey!
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    FGW 57 shortage.

    Found this on youtube. I was not on this one but i've been on the Sleeper when this has happened! lJYbXNy5cWQ
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    Trains becoming more boring?

    I can sympathise with those who have lost interest, I myself have lost interest a couple of times but always come back. When I come back I am then saddended by what I have missed, VT using a Deltic, 33's on the Gospel Oak (or was it NLL?) etc etc. My interest was more or less ressurected with...
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    FGW 57 shortage.

    I've had 2 HST power cars back to back hauling a failed 57 and a full Sleeper set. It was Hellfire!
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    Trains becoming more boring?

    This old chesnut, comes out all the time. There may not be as much interesting stuff as in the past but there is still enough to keep a thirty something enthusuast happy. If you are bored with the UK scene why not look a bit further? Plenty of interesting stuff in Mainland Europe, especially...
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    Greater anglia class 360 repaints?

    It was in Barbie livery, I wonder if i've confused it with the 321? :oops:
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    Greater anglia class 360 repaints?

    Well what did I see in the old First Great Eastern livery (It was a shell, but definatly looked like a 360)
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    Greater anglia class 360 repaints?

    Nope, it was a doorless 360 DMS in full obsolete First Great Eastern livery. I'm one of the last people to be able to confuse a 360 with a 185!
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    Greater anglia class 360 repaints?

    There was a class 360 driving car at Donny last week
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    Class 140 DMU

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiseman2007/sets/72157630033408808/ We visited the Keith & Dufftown last year and I took a couple of pictures of the said beast!
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    313121 now in Network Rail yellow

    Any reason why its not being re-numbered into the class 930 range? Looks good, never thought I would actually want to take a snap of a 313! :)
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    Steam Multiple Units..?

    What would you call a class 139? Even if not 100% correct do we collectivley call all railcars multiple units? That 'thing' at Quainton Road could definatly be called an SMU at least!
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    Steam Multiple Units..?

    The GNR and later LNER used to have something that could have been called a SMU; http://www.lner.info/locos/Railcar/railcar.shtml http://www.lner.info/locos/Railcar/gnr_railmotor.shtml http://www.lner.info/locos/Railcar/sentinel.shtml http://www.lner.info/locos/Railcar/clayton.shtml
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    Yes, thats the one! :)
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    seen from the metro between Stoddart Street and the start of the underground section on the RHS if you were travelling towards St. James. It points in the opposite direction as you would expect
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    Wow that looks lush! the SR stock looks pretty impressive too, Is that the MLV that ended up on Merseyside?
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    Thats a wonderful map, thanks for sharing. I suspect we are talking about the same arch too!
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    Yeah, sadly I'm too young to have any memories of the electrics running!
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    I never knew that. Explains the victorian brick work pointing the wrong direction to the ECML (If that makes sense)
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    Tyneside 3rd rail

    Thats great, some cracking photo's there. I especially like the parcels car and the loco! :)

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