Then straight on as 5Q91 to Doncaster Carr depot, presume for some attention on Wheel Lathe.There also seems to be a path from Oxley to Bounds Green (Via Peterborough) in the evening
Realtime Trains | 5Q90 1948 Oxley Car. M.D. to Bounds Green T&R.S.M.D | 15/01/2024
Real-time train running information for 5Q90 1948 departure from Oxley Car. M.D. to Bounds Green T&R.S.M.D on 15/01/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.www.realtimetrains.co.uk
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chungusgoat1
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https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:S22764/2024-01-15/detailed first 805 to shrewsbury potentially tommorow
Elecman
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Saw it at Wolverhampton this morning
As they are Q paths they will run if required. They may run each day, or may not run rest of the week.
Best thing is on the day of the path has auto activated, ie 1 or 2 hours before departure, highly unlikely to run, if it’s been manually activated, ie a random time then there is a very high chance it will run.
FrodshamJnct
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Waiting to depart Glasgow Central and 807002 has just turned up at platform 2 looking a mess! Good wash needed.
Had done 2 trips to Glasgow this week on Wednesday and Thursday. The rather grimy state no doubt reflects the temperatures. With no washing being done.
Peter Sarf
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Saw 805008 leaving Euston Platform 10 at 14:06 today Friday 19/01/2024. It mentioned Liverpool in its window displays.
Whistler40145
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Any reason why the 807 visited Glasgow Central as they're not planned to visit Scotland in traffic?
Mileage accumulation for the unit believe it made a third visit today .
No Avanti staff involved, it is crewed by GBRF.
On Voyagers they're movable on tracks rather than fixed to the sidewall, which is a nicely thought out little design, but probably not obvious at all. I can't think of another train with similar.
Whistler40145
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Cheers
It was going to Edge Hill depot.
Whistler40145
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Presumably overnight servicing will take place at Edge Hill?
YorksLad12
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You might be one of the few people who knows/knew that, so thanks for sharing!
H&I
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Looks like it is not too far off from being in service then!
Also far easier to obtain a path on that section of like than on the southern section.
not until Avanti have got enough staff trained on them - and they can't even crew their Pendolinos at the moment! I bet a minimum of 6 months away - and we shall probably see more trains stripped out of the timetable to release them for it.
Not aware of the reason. Either for training for the Lime St driver managers (they get trained before the drivers) or simply to create space at Oxley with the reduced timetable this weekend.
H&I
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Hopefully they have barriers at the doors to prevent passengers from boarding a train that is still under test.
themiller
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That didn’t stop passengers for Glasgow trying to board the Midland Pullman set when it paused in P3 at Carlisle the other week!
Peter Sarf
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I had not thought to check that. It looked like a bunch of Avani staff had got off at the London end so it was possibly taken back out by a different crew.
david.stannard
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Seemingly stepped-up mainline testing from Merchants Park this week, with two sets out overnight on the ECML.
One is EMR, one is Avanti unit.
david.stannard
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Thank you for the clarification.
It is mentioned in February's Modern Railways (just received) that the Old Dalby test track is currently out of action following a landslip and so presumably on-going commissioning work on 810001 for EMR is taking place during overnight runs on the ECML instead (5Q08-15) as well as mainline acceptance testing of new sets for Avanti.
DaveyJones
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Any idea which Avanti unit it was?
Any of 805010 - 805013.