Wyrleybart
Established Member
Has to be the class 180.
Beautiful train above the solebar but shockingly designed and seemingly impossible to me maintained for reliablilty. I cannot really comment on the GCR ones but FGW fought a battle to try and keep them in traffic, then they were fobbed off on FHT. Numerous thermal incidents later they were replaced by 802s and the quartet were shifted to EMR. Nearly a year later after a nice pretty plum livery an average of one a day seems to enter traffic, and if they are lucky it complete's it's daily diagram.
These are supposed to provide short term cover by binning the HSTs until the 810s replace them. Apparently the 0519 DBY-STP and 1705 STP-NOT should be a pair everyday. How many days have a pair worked up until noiw ?
Beautiful train above the solebar but shockingly designed and seemingly impossible to me maintained for reliablilty. I cannot really comment on the GCR ones but FGW fought a battle to try and keep them in traffic, then they were fobbed off on FHT. Numerous thermal incidents later they were replaced by 802s and the quartet were shifted to EMR. Nearly a year later after a nice pretty plum livery an average of one a day seems to enter traffic, and if they are lucky it complete's it's daily diagram.
These are supposed to provide short term cover by binning the HSTs until the 810s replace them. Apparently the 0519 DBY-STP and 1705 STP-NOT should be a pair everyday. How many days have a pair worked up until noiw ?