Not a sight seen very often; a GWR IET pokes its nose out from under the roof of London Euston station! 805101 'Nancy Astor' will work the 5Q85 14.06 Euston to North Pole Depot, one of a number of runs throughout the week to test if the bi-mode IETs can be utilised to operate some GWR services next Christmas during the eighteen-day closure of the GWML into Paddington. Staff told me that they had been given this set for the week in order to undertake various logistical and gauging tests and that so-far, things had gone well. They had also run into Waterloo to see if this station could be used too.
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