[Purley Oaks]

About 4 or 5 weeks ago I saw a triple headed EWS freight train heading up Shap - all 66s
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[Purley Oaks]

Driving up the A702 early this afternoon just north of Abington and saw what I think was the royal train, heading south, but with a yellow Mk1 engineer's coach with a pantograph on the wires as second vehicle. The formation was pantograph coach, 3 purple Mk3 coaches, the whole thing topped and tailed with purple Class 67s. That converted Mk 1 coach with the pantograph needed a double take. No camera.
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[Purley Oaks]

QUOTE (Edwin @ 16 Jan 2009, 22:57) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>The test coach sounds like MENTOR. http://www.traintesting.com/Mentor.htm
That page also confirms that the New Measurement Train includes a pantograph.

I suppose it could have been the Royal Train but perhaps also might have been the EWS Executive Train which includes Mk3s of a similar colour. http://mauretania.fotopic.net/c1635126.html

Thanks, Edwin, yes it was MENTOR; the coaches could easily have been the Executive train, but the two 67s were also purple. Something you don't see everyday
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