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Mikey C

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The Crossrail delay will add to the pressure on Southeastern...
 
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It certainly will, all the more why 466s must be able to carry on, with or without refurbishment. While the Crossrail delay won't be Southeastern's/The next franchise holder's fault, not being able to use all the resources available won't look good on them :rolleyes:
 

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Surely a derogation. You cant just stop using them it'd be a huge drop in capacity. 10 car networkers are already packed on some lines.

And how many 465s still need work doing?

Today I spotted 465195 with no refurbishment, so they've not finished with all of them yet (although I'm confident it must be one of a few at the very most not yet done). :!:

But can anyone clarify if the refurbishment is still ongoing? If it is then the incomplete status of the whole 465 fleet could explain why none of the 466s are done from what I've seen; if it has been at least paused then the whole franchise situation (which is another thread/story) maybe an explanation into such a pause. :idea:
 

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Today I spotted 465195 with no refurbishment, so they've not finished with all of them yet (although I'm confident it must be one of a few at the very most not yet done). :!:

But can anyone clarify if the refurbishment is still ongoing? If it is then the incomplete status of the whole 465 fleet could explain why none of the 466s are done from what I've seen; if it has been at least paused then the whole franchise situation (which is another thread/story) maybe an explanation into such a pause. :idea:

The work is ongoing with all 465/2/9s completed and work progressing on the 465/0/1s following on from a toilet redesign on them.
 

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466s will have modifications to Door Sounders, Grab handles etc, but no new toilet / additional disabled spaces. From 31 December 2019 they will no longer be permitted to run without a PRM 465 attached to them. https://assets.publishing.service.g...le/756924/angel-class-466-31-october-2018.pdf

A wheelchair passenger is unwittingly loaded into to non-modified 466 by platform staff at one of the few staffed stations and then needs the toilet, how are they meant to do this? Get out of the DOO 466 without a ramp and (considering the vast bulk of the stations they serve are unstaffed for most of the day), then get back into the attached modified 465 without a ramp?

Seems a daft rule saying they can run attached to a 465 unit that can't be accessed by a disabled person from the 466. Surely they need to just do them up. Its not like they haven't had enough notice!
 

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A wheelchair passenger is unwittingly loaded into to non-modified 466 by platform staff at one of the few staffed stations and then needs the toilet, how are they meant to do this? Get out of the DOO 466 without a ramp and (considering the vast bulk of the stations they serve are unstaffed for most of the day), then get back into the attached modified 465 without a ramp?

Seems a daft rule saying they can run attached to a 465 unit that can't be accessed by a disabled person from the 466. Surely they need to just do them up. Its not like they haven't had enough notice!

They'll be loaded onto the 465 part!
 

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A wheelchair passenger is unwittingly loaded into to non-modified 466 by platform staff at one of the few staffed stations and then needs the toilet, how are they meant to do this? Get out of the DOO 466 without a ramp and (considering the vast bulk of the stations they serve are unstaffed for most of the day), then get back into the attached modified 465 without a ramp?

Seems a daft rule saying they can run attached to a 465 unit that can't be accessed by a disabled person from the 466. Surely they need to just do them up. Its not like they haven't had enough notice!
Surely this is no different to if the staff accidentally loaded the wheelchair user into one of the 465 carriages without the toilet?
 

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They'll be loaded onto the 465 part!

Not in my experience they won't! Some station staff are fantastic but others just load them on anywhere and stroll of without telling you they've put them on, let alone where they are going to. You can leave a London terminal with a train full of wheelchairs and you'd have no way of knowing because at least half the platform staff never tell the driver!

Surely this is no different to if the staff accidentally loaded the wheelchair user into one of the 465 carriages without the toilet?

Which makes a mockery of the whole thing! No point making it wheelchair friendly if the staff don't bother putting them in the right place or telling the driver (the only member of staff on the train)... And, trust me, many
of them in the 465/466 area don't.
 

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466s will have modifications to Door Sounders, Grab handles etc, but no new toilet / additional disabled spaces. From 31 December 2019 they will no longer be permitted to run without a PRM 465 attached to them. https://assets.publishing.service.g...le/756924/angel-class-466-31-october-2018.pdf

Yes I did discover this document a while ago and added it earlier in the thread when I did. It's all well and good allowing them to be run in such a way from 2020, but, as I said earlier in the thread, there will be some rolling stock capacity lost from where 466s still lone work (because longer units will be replacing them, shortening other metro services) and all stations/announcements might have to make users aware of parts of the train without PRM compliance. :idea:

In short, the exemption significantly mitigates the problem of no refurbishment, but doesn't eliminate it I feel :rolleyes:

I don't know if the new franchise holder would go about fixing them up, but all these delays and contract extensions won't help.
 

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466022 will be the first unit to be refurbished at Ilford (Not Doncaster). Followed by 466026 a week later. Eventually they’ll head to Ilford in Pairs.
 

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Will need to be a 465 on the Grove Park Bromley North shuttle presumably after Dec 2019 as that is just a sole 466
 

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Will need to be a 465 on the Grove Park Bromley North shuttle presumably after Dec 2019 as that is just a sole 466
They'll also need something for the Medway Valley (1 unit - the other two are 375/3s) and Sheerness Branch (2 units)
 

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They'll also need something for the Medway Valley (1 unit - the other two are 375/3s) and Sheerness Branch (2 units)
Already asked that in post #42 and earlier last year.

Is this a full compliance refurbishment then, or will it be what you said earlier (#34)? If full compliance then the lone workers' problem is solved, otherwise it will be 465s or 375s taking them on.
 

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Already asked that in post #42 and earlier last year.

Is this a full compliance refurbishment then, or will it be what you said earlier (#34)? If full compliance then the lone workers' problem is solved, otherwise it will be 465s or 375s taking them on.
Still what I said earlier, the restrictions are in place as part of an agreement between SE & DFT not to run them alone in order to comply.
 

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Sorry, for the thread resurrection, but does anyone know the current state of the refurbishment programme?
 

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466005 has been completed and two units are in Ilford currently
 

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Just to clarify what refurbishment is being done that is enough to be classed as a refurb but not enough that from 2020 they must be attached to compliant 465s on passenger services? I understand the door buttons + sounds are being changed, but I imagine to remain non-compliant they won't be getting an accessible seating area and/or equivalent toilet :s I haven't yet seen 466005 or any other completed units so can't say for sure.
 

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Complete nonsense that the 466s will be non compliant because their toilet is non compliant whereas the 376s will be compliant despite having no compliant toilet either (as they have no toilet) but back on topic...
 

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Complete nonsense that the 466s will be non compliant because their toilet is non compliant whereas the 376s will be compliant despite having no compliant toilet either (as they have no toilet) but back on topic...
Easy fix for the 466s: get rid of the toilet!

(That's if they actually have one)
 

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Not that an end of 2019 deadline matters much now given the exemption granted to 466s, but is there a deadline in mind for getting the "modest" refurbishments done? While the franchise discussion is up in the air and handover result/time uncertain, a change in franchise may ultimately change what is done to them and when, so it'd be interesting to know how many will have been done by late June 2019 (handover "as things stand"), and what the current rate of completion could achieve for a full fleet completion? :idea::?:
 

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I saw a GBRF Class 66 hauling a 466 past Clapham Junction today en route for Ilford on 5X89, didn't catch the unit though, any idea which unit this was?
 

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So as things stand four class 466 on branch lines will need to be operated by 377s or 465s come December meaning lost capacity on the London commuter lines. That'll be fun.
 
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