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Redirect Left wrote:Currently aboard the 1845 EMT service to KGX eaoting to depart Leeds
Bit of a mess. No reservation tickets, and one of the first class coaches is being treated as normal class due to "one of the carriages being pulled and replaced".

Edit: Conductor announced this entire train is actually leased from EMT but it's VTEC service. May explain some of the chaos surrounding the unpreparedness of staff and the coaches, train is also running in reverse order. Staff are also scrambling to find a "catering key" for the on board catering equipment, seems EMT may have forgot to give the key to a VTEC staff member...
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There is an EMT set on pretty much permanent loan to VTEC, from what I believe.
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From what I have seen, there is an EMT train in full EMT livery operating under the VTEC flag, but there is also another unit that is headed by EMT marked 43s, but all the carriages are VTEC livery.
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Pilot wrote:Currently sat on 168327, paired 168323 from Oxford to London Marylebone. Both are former TPE units, being renumbered from 170307 and 170303 respectively. It's like being reunited with an old friend :lol:
Have they been fitted with tripcocks of they've been renumbered?
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Chris wrote:
Pilot wrote:Currently sat on 168327, paired 168323 from Oxford to London Marylebone. Both are former TPE units, being renumbered from 170307 and 170303 respectively. It's like being reunited with an old friend :lol:
Have they been fitted with tripcocks of they've been renumbered?
Was having a chat with the driver of it, and he said they'd fitted with them, so I imagine it was done when they were refurbished.
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"We apologise for the slow running of this service, as some of you are aware we are running on one engine and we are now going uphill"....

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The start of a long pointless journey...

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Currently aboard the X2 train (tilting high speed train!!) from Stockholm to Linköping. The tilting mechanism makes me slightly nauseous.
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On a GatEx train from Gatwick to London.

First time on it today. Damn I miss the 442s.

Also work's paying for it. So a free journey for me.
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About to be pushed by this as the 1105 Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly Enterprise service, travelling in Enterprise Plus (which is basically first class).
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Currently being pulled by this (92033) as the 2115 London Euston to Fort William, Aberdeen and Inverness. The 92 will detach at Edinburgh, where tbe train splits into 3, and the portion that I am in should contunue on to Fort William.
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Triple post... naughty me!

My train is very green tonight!

Currently in bed on the 2145 Penzance to London Paddington, being hauled by 57604. Night folks!
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Just took the unmanned fully automated metro from deira ( old town of Dubai) to the airport, there maglev between terminals


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0833 KGX to Donny. Haven't seen Dave's cats wandering on the line yet..

And the wi-fi's not working.
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0855 (late) Birmingham New Street- Lichfield (Trent Valley). First time on a 323.
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Currently sat on the 1115, Manchester Piccadilly to Milton Keynes Central, today operated by 390128. Just passing through Macclesfield.

Conductor has an awful accent.
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Get the hell out of my office.
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Ameecher wrote:Get the hell out of my office.
Don't worry! I got out of there as soon as I could!

How some of you deal with that place all day every day I will never know.
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Pilot wrote:
Ameecher wrote:Get the hell out of my office.
Don't worry! I got out of there as soon as I could!

How some of you deal with that place all day every day I will never know.
Having worked in some terrible offices I really like it.
Beats the hell out of Eversholt Street and Square One.

Not as nice as Baskerville House mind although at least we can get to the toilet without being chaperoned by a resident staff member.
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Ameecher wrote:
Pilot wrote:
Ameecher wrote:Get the hell out of my office.
Don't worry! I got out of there as soon as I could!

How some of you deal with that place all day every day I will never know.
Having worked in some terrible offices I really like it.
Beats the hell out of Eversholt Street and Square One.

Not as nice as Baskerville House mind although at least we can get to the toilet without being chaperoned by a resident staff member.
See personally, I prefer Square One over the Quadrant. The only issue with it in my opinion is it's location within Manchester.

Bakersville House is a lovely building though, and a nice office inside too. George Stephenson House in York isn't too bad an office either from my limited experience visiting there.
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