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  • 787133

    17 July 2026 - Greg Hartle

    Hi Roger, yes I even did that myself catching a bus there and getting off outside the deliveries entrance on Embankment Rd and then walking up to the bridge. Now, I did see both stored power cars, 43088 being the one furthest away with shunter 08641 next to it. There was a rammel of things to the back of the power car (gangway end) all sort of covered over in yellow sheeting.. thought I spotted road rail wheels tbh thinking it was a trailer! I'd decided that wasn't it after many minutes looking through binos. Nothing was coupled to the shunter, never saw the other one the blue liveried supposedly 08644. I was thinking it must be coupled to it somewhere out of view on the depot...

  • 787133

    17 July 2026 - Roger Harris

    Greg, if it is of any help, when I saw the wagon, I parked down Embankment Road and walked the entire length of the depot upto the railway bridge. It was only when I got up by the stored HST Power Car by the bridge that suddenly the two 08s appeared at the far side of the depot towing 787133, and then very quickly shunted it back to the farthest most siding and parked under the big yellow overhead crane next to the stored HST Power Car, and that is why you cannot normally see the wagon, because it is hidden behind the Power Car. The same situation prevailed when the ICRS visited the depot a few days before my observation, so it is the luck of the draw on this one. All the best for you getting it next time.

  • 787133

    17 July 2026 - Ben Williams

    I think it is normally inside the sheds.

  • 787133

    16 July 2026 - Greg Hartle

    Ridiculously hard to spot! I must have rode past the depot nearly 20 times in the 5 days I was in Plymouth commuting, not a sausage.. not even a shunter roving about these days. Gutted as it's highly likely I won't be down those ways again for many a year...

  • 11101

    16 July 2026 - Russell Withington

    According to the Railway 200 website (https://railway200.co.uk/inspiration-ends-tour-railway-200-commemorative-review/) this coach is being retained by Network Rail and housed at its test track facility in Melton.

  • 11093

    16 July 2026 - Russell Withington

    According to the Railway 200 website (https://railway200.co.uk/inspiration-ends-tour-railway-200-commemorative-review/) this coach, the "Wonderlab on Wheels", is heading to Locomotion at Shildon.

  • 10406

    16 July 2026 - John Silverthorne

    anyone know where this coach now located?

  • 10406

    15 July 2026 - Ben Williams

    I've decided - quite late (!) - that these other 4 coaches from the Rail 200 train should be added to the lists here. Please add any old sightings from the exhibition period ONLY, ie mid 2025 to June 2026.

  • 6371

    15 July 2026 - Ben Williams

    Moved to Stourbridge yesterday for use with Chiltern.

  • 024911

    14 July 2026 - Russell Withington

    Doesn’t bode well for two of the other Welsh sites then ?.

  • 024911

    14 July 2026 - Ben Williams

    We generally don't have separate location listings for small sites like this with only one vehicle as the page would get very long.

  • 024911

    13 July 2026 - Russell Withington

    Should the Dolgarrog Railway Society (https://dolgarrograilway.wixsite.com/dolgarrog-railway) not have their own entry in the Welsh list of Preserved Railways?

    They have taken over the trackbed of the old Dolgarrog Aluminium Works Railway Siding, where they have a diesel shunter (visible at the right of this photograph) and various items of rolling stock.

  • 040452

    13 July 2026 - Simon Bendall

    Left Ruddington today for a storage site at Lilbourne.

  • 6371

    6 July 2026 - Mick House

    Do you want photos of the rest of the train

  • 977413

    5 July 2026 - Simon Jones

    Painted maroon as of 05.07.2026 with an E prefix.

  • 6371

    4 July 2026 - Ben Williams

    Moving to Eastleigh on Monday from Great Yarmouth - 5O86. Also now back in teal livery.

  • 6371

    4 July 2026 - Steve Boulton

    Now renumbered to 6371

  • 041602

    28 June 2026 - Timothy Ackerley

    Unfortunately I think the sighting on 4th May 2025 is incorrect. I visited Tanfield on 24th May 2026 and noted a wagon numbered B785609 but this is almost certainly a different van for which the original number is not known. I assume that Tanfield have used the number B785609 as they previously owned it.

    I have tried a couple of times to contact the Tanfield Railway to confirm my suspicions but nobody has bothered getting back to me. However, the Railway Heritage Register has now come to the same conclusion so I am confident that this is what has happened. For reference, this is the RHR record:

    https://ws.rhrp.org.uk/WagonSurvey/displayvehicle.php?Ref=1JV6FDB9AQ54YKIHL3T0

  • 153384

    23 June 2026 - Greg Hartle

    Ok so we're saying 153381 was outside of the Chrysalis shed, adjacent to the Centro 323, on the Thursday..

  • 153384

    23 June 2026 - Vince

    Members over on trainlogger established that it was 153381

  • 999507

    23 June 2026 - Simon Bendall

    Delivered to a new home at Shillingstone station today, due to be restored next year.

  • 153384

    23 June 2026 - Russell Withington

    Which takes us back to Roger's original question: What is the identity of the NR Blue Class 153 that was being worked on outside the shed?

  • 025038

    23 June 2026 - Ben Williams

    North end of main shed - there was a gap between locos but I guess sometimes view would be blocked.

  • 025038

    22 June 2026 - Greg Hartle

    Where abouts outside is 025036 normally found?

  • 153384

    22 June 2026 - Greg Hartle

    Yes it was 155345 in the shed, I took a photo of it from the event entrance end