SCOTRAIL, 'push/ pull' set RETURNS.!!!! 47712 'Lady Diana Spencer' ,Chester, 6th February 2023 

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks. They certainly are. 😀👍

Crewe Diesel Preservation Group own and did the resto of 47712, LSL lease it off them.

My pleasure, and you. 😀👍

Thanks Callum. What will be thier next recreation?😀👍

Couldn't agree more! 👍

not quite there yet only crewe to chester.

@@damiendye6623 well back in the 90s they did

@@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 Mostly 80s, push-pull finished in Scotland on Edinburgh-Glasgow & Glasgow-Aberdeen in April 1990, initially replaced by 156s.

Long while ago?

@@philclarke3203 yeah

Thanks. They certainly do 👍😀

Definitely 👍😀

Thanks David 👍

Thanks James

Thanks Ian. Great memories. Many new trains here are not designed for comfort 👍

None of the 47/7s carried snowploughs, so 47712 is prototypically correct.

@@hexagon7895 I'll need to dig out my old photos and have a look, I'd swear that some of them did carry the snowplough, although I might be remembering Scotrail red.

Interesting! But what great memories! 👍😀

@Tsurnari Scottish-based 47/4s, including unique ScotRail Blue Stripe liveried 47461 Charles Rennie Mackintosh did carry ploughs; often contravening the rule book by retaining the centre plough in summer...

Definitely. Thanks Darren 👍

Thanks Justin 👍😀

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks syd, and you too 👍😀

I agree! 👍

Indeed it is. Thanks Tim 👍

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks, and indeed they have 😀👍

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks 👍

Thanks Steve. I'm sure you'll see it, when it comes your way?👍

Thanks Robert. There will be some crowded platforms in Scotland 👍😀

Thanks Rick 👍

Certainly is. Great memories! 👍

Great service

Thanks Barrie 👍😀

Thanks. Ken 👍

Indeed 👍😀

Thanks Keith 👍

Thanks. Barry 👍

Thanks Mike

Thanks, they can and do 👍😀

Indeed it is! 👍😀

Certainly is Mike. Plenty test runs round here 😀

It is! Thanks 👍😀

Thanks Ian. Certainly have 😀👍

Completely agree. Comfort in today's modern trains is certainly not progress!

Yeeees 👍

Thanks Arthur. I was expecting to see you there, but at least you saw it. Hopefully see you soon 👍😀

I think so too David 👍😀

Thanks Craig 👍😀

Thanks. Great memories

They never looked like this! Apart from when they were new of course.

It does not have the old FDM fitted. Uses Blue star. Coaches are not even ex-scotrail ones.

Yes, WOW! 👍

Definitely 👍

Great stuff 👍😀

Haha, I can't answer that 😬😀

You're getting old . . . . I used to drive the bloody things 😟 During the training remember one guy commenting that he wasn't sure if he liked driving a train from a cupboard in the Guard's van 😆

@@marshallman7608 Try a 153 then!!!!🤣🤣🤣

Like many people, no doubt 😀

@philclarke3203 By coincidence, I have 47712 on my layout, but in parcels red livery. I also have the DBSO 9707,but 47708 is the train locomotive.

It certainly is! Anything seems possible with LSL?

@@ClydebridgeStation very nice! I have 47705 in Scot Rail livery, sound fitted.

It does look great 👍

Or hire it for the Fortwilliam or Far North lines ?

Another ' good ' example of progress 🙄.

@@philclarke3203 hardly progress when you sat in the eight am train to queen street and it eventually left around 8:30 because the doors wouldn't close.

everything loco hauled got replaced by rubbish 🗑 electric operated tin can sprinters sadly all over the UK! then if it ❄ snows or we get leaves on the lines these bog units can't operate! a class 47 or any other loco hauled train wouldn't have these issues as I would rather travel in a mk1-2-3 propper coach than on a crap bog unit dmu/emu sprinter or any other modern foreign rubbish that dominates the uk's failing railway networks in the 2020s 😎

@@justinobrien3593 well having used the class 385 8 car EMU set from Haymarket to Glasgow last month. I couldn't fault them. Acceleration was lively and the ride was very good. The seats were comfortable and spacious and there were plenty of them. There are trains every 15 minutes too and they are proving very popular. The only downside is the front end looks hellish. As for the 158s a lot now work on rural lines such as trains around Fife and north to and from Inverness with better seats. You can often see a 158 set coupled to a 170 turbo star where a longer train is needed. Scotrail inherited some HST sets and none travel south or east of Edinburgh as I would love to see them tackle the Border Railway which is proving a big challenge for the 170s on that route.

@@ronaldweir712 What problems are the class 170 units having on the Borders line? I've only been that way a couple of times, when 158 sets were in use.

Hope they were good ones 👍

Very 👍😀

Yes,that will be ok. 👍

@philclarke3203 thanks, and I'll make sure I put on the footage I use, that it came from you

@@ClydebridgeStation thanks . I'll look out for your video of the show. Wouldn't have minded going, but it's a long way for me.

Exactly! I'm sure they must be . 😬👍

It was noticeable 😀

Glad you enjoyed it 😀👍

Not highland cattle involved, but one of these sets was derailed at high speed by cattle that had strayed on the line at Polmont in the mid 1980s. Sadly caused significant loss of life.

Definitely, as in the comment below 😢

@@Aidankiwi a sad day 😢

@@Aidankiwi whoosh !

Thanks, my pleasure. I know what you mean,about preferring loco hauled trains. The first tour on 24th February was quickly fully booked, not sure of any future tours yet. Last year's Inter city, trips to help Avanti, was for publicity, and to show they could do it, as much as anything

Not sure about that

Why not?

@@philclarke3203 Why not ? Make a good spot hire !! Only problem is RA , traction and route knowledge !!