44024
42212
Nothing to report in terms of the carriages – It was a new Carriage A (44024) on the way to work and a combination of a Carriage C (42291 – alas a duplicate) and a Carriage D (42212) on the way home.
The most exciting thing was sharing a seat with a female cyclist who was wearing a yellow cardigan, a day-glo orange vest and carrying a bright green bag. She was coughing so hard she dropped her helmet (a red one).
But the interesting thing was getting a reply from Leo (remember him – bushy beard, doesn’t clear up after himself) about what Carriage X might mean. He was helped by @Paul_MK5 who sounds like he’s forgotten more about trains than I will know in two lifetimes. Anyway Carriage X might mean any of the following:
A spare carriage used for outsize baggage.
A carriage on the way to a depot.
Used on a 6 standard class carriage train to stop 2 carriages having the same letter.
An extra car on “special” 9 car sets.
A replacement for a 1st class carriage.
So basically anything you want it to be. Mystery solved.
Excelsior!
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