Chiltern Lane

I seem to have gridlocked myself

Headed out for the the first time in ages to go see 455873 head off for storage before it gets scrapped 🫡
Lumo 222005 also showed up👍

The end is near 😢
The first Chiltern MK3s have gone for storage today, set AL03 & DVT 82305, with 68014 taking them

Also can relive the beauty that was the divert timetable, I miss when they did this, as what they do now when the mainline is shut makes things so much more difficult

Now that RTT goes back to 2011/2012, I can finally answer my own question that this did actually happen and I wasn't imagining it 😂

Memorabilia shelf is getting a bit busy!

Random question for everyone!
If you could "Claim" 1 DMU fleet & 1 EMU fleet, what would they be?
Mine would be the 155s & the 360/2s, always liked microfleets

🥀

Went to London today for my final ride on a 455! Never rode these as much as I should have, so felt it was necessary to have one more before they go, with 5871 doing the honours.
Wasn't meant to see 5737 & 5721 too, but the 701 I was waiting for, simply sped past instead of stopping!
Oh, 66710 too.

I seriously don't get what GTR are thinking with the 387s. Like, they have a whole dedicated Gat Ex fleet to use and yet more often than not they end up using every other type of 387 instead, and then use the GX ones on Southern instead?

Am I missing something here

Why are services being replaced with ones that take significantly longer tomorrow?

So 2 196s are in Chiltern livery now. Its... A look for sure

Been good!! You?

Georgeeee!
Don't start a post like that, had a mini heart attack before reading it 😂

Also I think I've been too harsh on 376 seats in the past despite not having been on one at the time

I don't think they're that bad 🫣

Trains!
Spent a day in London getting some units in that I've either never been on before or ones that don't have long left.
Started with 458/5s (Finally - Last 2 times I tried they got cancelled), then 455s. I then did 376s & 171s for the first time. And managed to get 466003 at the end too

004 since around April and 218 since July I think?

Yup still just 001, 003 & 106.
004 & 218 are still at Crewe

Banbury things this evening!
First time seeing a 68/MK5 set in the new livery too

168106 seems to have had a day of teleporting around 😂

*that
Can't type 🙄

I find it ironic how Hornby's 'retro' hst set uses a tooling they isn't even theirs

Huh
Chiltern service, turning into a WCR one...?

Major 165/166 shake up going on, and it's definitely confused me a few times 🫠
So, 3 car 165039 is now a 2 car, and will become 165025. The current 025 has gone back to being 166202, with its MSO back. What was going to become 165035 will now be the new 165039, with the original 039s MSO 🙃
#BSMRGUK

Buying a job lot of stuff for one specific item that's included >> buying the item alone

Ironic how it usually works out cheaper

Bought way more than I should have at GETS this year 💀
#BSMRGUK

Christ they're really pushing 034 already!

That was quicker than expected!

After 13 months, 165034 is finally a 3 car again! Was on test today, should be back in service soon hopefully

Oh what a surprise, its completely skipping the whole Aylesbury-Great Missenden section, typical 🙄