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Morning, does anyone have a link to the path in RTT for tomorrow's move? I can't find anything around Ely that could be it
 
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ped316 said:
Morning, does anyone have a link to the path in RTT for tomorrow's move? I can't find anything around Ely that could be it
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It's cancelled - postponed to 26th November, with the second unit arriving on 3rd December.
 
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There is stock move today, 7Q46 Landore-Ely with 175109, it's a hell of a long route, Landore-Hereford-Crewe-Stafford-Leicester-Peterborough-Ely, surely Landore to Acton, across the North London and up to Ely would've been quicker?
 
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Steveswan10 said:
There is stock move today, 7Q46 Landore-Ely with 175109, it's a hell of a long route, Landore-Hereford-Crewe-Stafford-Leicester-Peterborough-Ely, surely Landore to Acton, across the North London and up to Ely would've been quicker?
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If it's going on a detour then either there is a gauge clearance issue on the shortest route, and/or that route has no available pathing at the time. Happy to be corrected if this isn't the case.
 
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brad465 said:
If it's going on a detour then either there is a gauge clearance issue on the shortest route, and/or that route has no available pathing at the time. Happy to be corrected if this isn't the case.
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More than likely it’ll either be a pathing issue or ROG using it as a route learner. The 175s have taken the direct route via London previously, and a number of the Laira to Ely HST moves went via Leicester and other midlands areas as well.
 
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brad465 said:
If it's going on a detour then either there is a gauge clearance issue on the shortest route, and/or that route has no available pathing at the time. Happy to be corrected if this isn't the case.
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Or possibly down to available drivers and their route knowledge?
 
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Why does it need to go so slow? That's 20 hours to travel from Ely to Plymouth...
Also a curious route - possibly to do with gauge clearance?
 
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ABB125 said:
Why does it need to go so slow? That's 20 hours to travel from Ely to Plymouth...
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Because the ancient diesels or the long-stored unit(s) might fall apart if they went any faster?
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Also a curious route - possibly to do with gauge clearance?
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Or to keep them out of the way of any trains that need to go a bit faster than a bloke on a pushbike could manage?
 
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GoneSouth said:
Seriously? I hadn’t heard of this, shocking! Welcome to Cornwall, the next train is in 3 days! Whose master plan was this, and would that shared unit have been a pacer by any chance?

Shudder to think what could have happened over the years!
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Back to the future.

The bean counters in Wales are already why the government should spend millions on the little used Heart of Wales line and millions on all of the buses running in North Wales.

Cornwall is unusual in that 3 of the branch lines have negligible intermediate travel and can be covered by bus in comparable journey times to the train. In the days before mass year round tourism this wasn't as mad as you think.

Railtrack / Network Rail revived this cunning plan by inventing a maintenance plan that involved closing each branch line in Devon and Cornwall for a week at a time during the winter, or during half term, saving the same unit in another way.
 
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BillStampy said:
The Class 37s have left Derby to pick up the 175, should arrive at Laira tomorrow supposing all goes well!
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Apparently there is a 5L46 movement to Ely underway however there’s no consist showing. Only one ROG 37 was shown as at Derby RTC - 37611
 
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I believe this was 37510 + 37407 with 175002??
123min late leaving Ely sidings today and straight through Peterborough on P7
 
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