Railway Forum - Help, Possible trainspot mistake

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Originally Posted by Matt446574 (Post 25903)

Hi as i'm sure you can gather from the title i think i have made a mistake in one of my trainspots and it's driving me crazy!! I had just finished at my particular spot and as i walked away a train came so i quickly jotted down the number and off i went. The number i wrote down was 67133 although i thought all the 67 class were EWS however i swear this was a south west train. I would be very grateful if someone could tell me whether i've just writen down a wrong number or that this is actualy write.
Thanks!
(p.s. As you can probaly guess i am very new to the hobby, i origanaly collected the n-gauge models which got me in to the hobby.)

Hi Matt and welcome.

Not sure where you were when you saw this but it sound like you took down a carriage number off the side of an EMU.

I looked up the number ranges of EMUs and 67133 is a carriage number in the range used by the South West Trains "Desiro" Class 444 units:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_444

These run express services from Waterloo to the south and south west of England.

If you have a spotting book, you should be able to cross reference the unit number (the one on the front of the unit) with the carriage number, if you find the section that covers class 444.