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A Red d/d seen at teatime n Stafford coming off the Newport Road - still had a yellow line on the skirt. I don't think any of Select's do?

BV70UAK was on a Stafford - Rugby rail replacement yesterday with two consecutive cancellations, one door defect and one due to the overtime ban.

BU18YMP arrived outside Stafford station yesterday as if on rail replacement duties but left again almost immediately.

The temporary one closed at 20.00 yesterday supposedly to allow the temporary one to be removed, although by 14.00 today you'd never know it had ever been there.
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The temporary stop in Prince Albert Street has a very tidy timetable display for just  two days.

The two buses supplied to Mikro, Crewe both photographed yesterday - 4452 has lost its fleetnumber and has some paint damage where the fleetnames have been removed, but 4664 still carrying them but its fleetnames have come off cleanly.
Neither has a name yet.
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730008+730009 according to part time spotter - or are you saying their are two turns?

No - Trent Valley line is blocked today.

It is in Real Time Trains but since I posted yesterday, has changed to CAN so either it was overlooked for next week, or perhaps it was intended/hoped to run it but in view of this past week's abysmal cancellation record they have thought better of it?

I was wondering if it might be this Monday as the 17.05 Euston-Blackpool (or its ECS moves from and to Oxley) isn't showing cancelled next week, but if it is it seems to be going to be a very low key launch.
(Until now It has been cancelled, well in advance, every day since it appeared in the timetable)

Thanks - I hadn't spotted the change in stopping patterns.
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Saturday service is in now - its actually 22.31, the 22.03 from Dorridge extended to give better spacing.

June WMR times downloaded to RTT overnight - Shrewsbury services go half hourly, a semi-fast calling at Galton Bridge, Wolverhampton, Shifnal, Telford and Wellington and a slow train via Soho Road calling at Tame Bridge Parkway, "Service Stop Unadvertised" at Darlaston and Willenhall going north, but a "performance allowance" the other way, then all stations - commuters to the other wayside stations aren't going to be pleased as this applies all day so they lose their rush-hour additionals as well as longer journey times.

https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/west-midlands-transport-partners-working-together-on-plans-for-a-new-aldridge-station

Completing work after last weekends land slip both tonight and tomorrow late night diversions via Stafford - as a result a 23.30 rail replacement all the way from Birmingham to London.

730210 on Trent Valley test runs today, while 730206 noted at Wolverhamton en route to Loughborough behind 37510.

I've just seen 350 373 i think it was at tame bridge parkway and it's got a name badge on it now, vic hall, any ideas what this is for.

350375
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https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/about-us/news-desk/train-honour-watford-junction-legend-vic-hall