(24 Jan 2016, 6:22 pm)Andreos1 wrote I get what you're saying about the blockage on the Tyne Valley line but there were increasing sightings before it happened. Some mentioned in this thread.I spotted two in November/December on normal weekday workings in the form of 156479 and 156484.
Initially the sightings seemed to coincide with closures down in the Boro area.
There haven't been any closures in that area for a while though.
https://flic.kr/p/ANspfG
https://flic.kr/p/A9vK95