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701509
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Videos featuring 701509
This video shows recent infrastructure changes at Long Marston Innovation Centre, including the addition of a new track loop and overhead line equipment to connect main siding areas. It also features the arrival of train 37407 with two Class 350 units for storage following their service with London Northwestern Railway. Other units and Class 01/5 Porterbrook shunters are visible in use at the site.
A GBRf Class 47 locomotive, numbered 47727, is seen towing a new South Western Railway Class 701 five-car unit, numbered 701509, through St Albans City. The train is operating service 5Q10 between Derby and Eastleigh. The footage captures the movement of this modern electric multiple unit being worked by a diesel locomotive on what appears to be a non-passenger working.