Eleven years ago (almost to the day) I had the best carvery lunch of my life at the Pullman Inn in Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire. Lunch was interrupted by a Virgin Trains Class 390 'Pendolino' flashing past the window as the Pullman Inn was located at Widmerpool station on the former Midland Railway line between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray that went on to form the Old Dalby Test Track (used to stage a crash between a Class 46 locomotive and four BR Mk.1 coaches into a nuclear flask on 17 July 1984).
Driving past the now closed Pullman Inn today I spotted this…
Just one of many London Underground S stock units that are undergoing testing on the line at the moment.
The new Hitachi IEP units (the first of which recently arrived in the UK from Japan) will also be tested at Old Dalby.
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