Robin9 wrote:

I haven't seen any either!

I travelled on the line today. I arrived at Leyton Midland at 11.04,
four minutes after the previous train had left. A class 59 with 26 on
came through the station towards yellow signals at about 25 mph.
Bearing in mind the preceding passenger train will stop at
Walthamstow Queens Road but the freight train won't, there's not
much slack in the system.

The good news is they've fixed the public address system on Platform
2 at Blackhorse Road!


I see from Twitter that ARL staff drove the first 710 to Barking today.
This was it reversing at Willesden low level:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0fhnDgWkAACV-b.jpg

@RidingtheGoblin tweeted, "… this was the first time ARL staff had got
their hands on a Class 710 apart from visits to the Asfordby test centre.
Proper crew training has yet to start. Each driver needs a 4-day conversion
course, so 710s COULD be in public service in a couple of months at very
earliest".