07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May

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[charles_uk]

Realtime trains suggests a very unusual seven car train on today's 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford morning halts service. 2 x 2 car plus 1 x 3 car 165 units (165125, 165129 & 165106).

Presumably this was just to relocate the units and only one of the two car turbos would actually have been operational?

[ChrisB]

Need for refuelling?

[grahame]

Need for refuelling?

Likely. Almost certainly not due to anticipated high passenger demand from Ascott-under-Wychwood

[Witham Bobby]

It ran almost quarter of an hour late, too

[Richard Fairhurst]

Need for refuelling?

Likely. Almost certainly not due to anticipated high passenger demand from Ascott-under-Wychwood

You could fit the entire population of Ascott-under-Wychwood (550) into that formation with 110 seats left empty...

[IndustryInsider]

I think one of the sets was sent to Oxford to take another faulty one back to Reading via Worcester later that morning that couldn’t be driven on its own.

[stuving]

I think one of the sets was sent to Oxford to take another faulty one back to Reading via Worcester later that morning that couldn’t be driven on its own.

That was what I guessed, as the only vaguely logical reason the three-car unit would go on to Reading with another two-car in tow. Especially is it went back via ... Worcester.