nothing is changing over next week from what I can see.
They need that now
Was hoping for at least one new diagram a week tbh
Same here, but maybe it'll be a couple at a time every 2-3 weeks...
That would be a very rapid introduction compared to previous new fleets!
The things have been around since 2020, the last thing their introduction will ever be is rapid.
That is of course true. I meant from now.
One of the funniest comments I've read on here in years. Chapeau sirIt's been a spectacularly tantric introduction into service, hasn't it?
I think one per fortnight is more realistic.
That would give us approx 20 diagrams by year end when I thought the internal target was 34.
And 20 would surely be incredibly slow.
As more and more crew are trained the pool of usable crew increases, expect to see the initial increase start slow but ramp up over time. It becomes almost exponential in growth once the pool is large enough. I use the word almost. Not actually...
Yes, I recall the 450s. Started with a slow trickle then suddenly became a flood and it seemed they were everywhere overnight.
Many diagrams won't start and finish at the same place requiring alterations to the diagrams and/or multiple to be brought in at once. Those sort of alterations are easier to do less frequently, particularly as week to week won't be massive change in driver availability. Fortnightly changes have been common on rollouts elsewhere.
That's what has been running, as well as fewer diagrams many run differently to the longer term plan. This post on the diagrams thread has the current diagrams based on what was running earlier this week. 2V53 is on a different diagram in the long term plan, but is used to shorten or balance another diagram.
Sorry to disappoint anyone who might have thought this was something newThe latest cover of Modern Railways magazine has a panel about the 701s, and a rather worrying bullet point that states "455 life extension plans"
This doesn't make much sense considering the positive news recently and the plan to get 30-ish in by Christmas, which would cover most of the 455s with the remaining being operated by 450s and 458s.
Has something else gone wrong?
but it's not. It's reporting on the revised training programme, with the briefest of mentions about the Class 455 corrosion repairs.
It says "life extension to 2030" which I found a bit of a strange detail. Obviously they're not going to last that long..Sorry to disappoint anyone who might have thought this was something new
Presumably the corrosion repair work is guaranteed for five years.
Very impressive if it's maintained, but as Roger Ford has pointed out previously the average tends to fluctuate a lot with such a small operational fleet. Nevertheless, to date they've been at least as good as other Aventra fleets in the early days of introduction.
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Many thanks Alanc: I see that another is due from Bicester on 27/05, via the same arrangements.
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Still a way off the contracted 45k target, though, and even further off the 458/0s (and indeed the slammers) at their peak.
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Looks like SWR didn't let the DfT know about the negotiations with unions in January.
Yes 7 diagrams in passenger service at once, 9 units have been in passenger service over the last week.
