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Tridents have been notorious for overheating and catching in the past, so given how particularly warm it’s been wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if that’s the cause of the fire, particularly as they are still dampening down the engine Bay Area.

I wasn't sure what you were talking about at first until I saw that! Why have they made an already fairly unattractive vehicle look bulbous and angry...

Simple: the Desiro. Rarely have they had much of an issue and I don’t recall their introduction being particularly troublesome either. Strong, solid, well built performers. But then again, it’s what you get when you take a manufacturer like Siemens who “borrows” a 4 VEP to hammer around its own...

Looking at the unit layout I can see that, unsurprisingly, coach J is a lightweight bogied vehicle - they are the worst riding vehicles in the 80X family and aren't much better under the 385s either. I've now actively chosen to avoid them when booking on either GW or LNER now. Oddly they seem to...

If only there was a like button for this forum. A Unit would be a little more understandable, a loco hauled rake however.

47292 - Ex GCRN and moved to the Churnet Valley a few years ago.

Easily, see below. The 458s, like most of the Alstom built units at the time have suffered from their share of corrosion and has been costly to fix. The /4 conversion, making them something of a triggers broom again, will see them out for limited use on SWR for a few years (eg until the 701...

On that point though, their reliability has declined again since leaving the Western. Unfortunately, the only depot to ever really get to grips with these troublesome units, the legendary Old Oak Common, is now of course long gone and the technical know-how lost with it.

*Almost ;) 710/2 and 710/3 units can also operate on 750V DC.

Different. I guess that’s one way to save on a repaint...

Certainly more time spent running on diesel mode than envisaged, and one of the factors which may be why more units seem to have GUs switched off out of use at the moment*. They don’t seem particularly great with the Cornish mainline gradients and dwell time doesn’t help either. They are also an...

No units in GWR land yet, but I’ve heard the training documents have been sent over to some GWR depots, which gives a pretty strong indication of their future. Having spent most of the last week in the very SouthWest, they (or cascaded 158s from Bristol should the 175s end up at that end) will...

Off topic, but is it worth spinning the Weston Milton / Weston Super Mare topic out into a separate thread? Fingers crossed for some news on the submission of the business case though, 2 days left of the month so they’d better be quick!

I know. But my point is, if the 158s are in a better internal state than the Turbostars, why do they need as much money spent on them, or as much work doing to them as the Turbostars? The Grammer seats are fine - apart from reducing the high capacity layout a little, they’re fine as they are...

Without getting too worked up over the 158s, could it also be because they aren’t is as bad a state as the mixbag 170s are? I mean, new seat covers and potentially matching carpets would see them through a good few years yet, vs the mix of Southern, ScotRail, London Midland and Anglian Transport...

150202 / 216 - Original BR Seats 150207 - Chapman seats installed by First North Western to near original layout. Those 3 are Angel Trains owned and sadly, the DfT prefers to count seats so won’t allow GWR to standardise them to match the rest of the fleet (Porterbrook) units. 207 could have...

Likely to be one of the Network Rail (ex EMR) 153s which hasn’t been repainted yet. Edit. In fact, if it’s this, then it will be an NR 153 on a Derby to Derby test run. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R11102/2024-04-26/detailed

Meanwhile, Camborne seems to be fairly full of Volvo’s this morning. Apologies if the photos aren’t loading by the way, WiFi on GWR doesn’t seem to be very strong today.

I can’t see it being too much of an issue, ScotRail’s 158 have plug sockets along the walls - both proper Inverness and Haymarket / Corkerhill units.

I saw that, before being swapped out for the tan coloured Sprinter. I still can’t help but feel the blue one has all the appearance of an ice cream van though!