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« on: November 18, 2020, 17:20:01 »

My data feeds contain road and rail pictures and it was struck me that both industries classify vehicles using 5 digits. From these brief snippets, can you tell me which were trains and which were buses?

32292 seen near Lawrence Weston
33801 has now received the branding for 38/48a/49
37099 254 0Z37 Barrow Hill LIP^▸ Derby RTC
37510 working 5V78 from Long Marston to Cardiff Canton
39138 (SN62AWR) in it's new Bath City livery
39418 at Bristol Parkway
43048 bound for preservation
43060 Entering Derby
43066 at Loughborough
45562 Alberta powering towards Kirkby Stephen
57602 heads east through Totnes
58040 with a MGR around Shirebrook.
60007 applies the power on the climb towards Cracoe
66087 was bringing 6Z41 Moreton - Small Heath stone out of Hereford
66564 at Swindon today
66725 seen in Portishead (Nore Road)
66726 (WX54XDK) working the D1 dupe to Bath - 2/11/20
66847 6C41 1857 St Budeaux Victoria Road to Westbury
70017 hauls a heavily laden VSTP 6Z41
70807 passes Dawlish Warren


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