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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.I know we’ve only seen new diagrams this week but what’s a realistic timeframe for the next round? Assuming that the driver training...
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.Although that doesn’t sound like a lot, if there’s about 50 4 car 455s still in service you’d only need about 25 10 car 701s to replace...
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.Hopefully the new 701 diagrams will reduce the number of short form 4 car 455s running about on the network
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.It’s not 3 seconds, it’s more like 10-15 which does matter on the high frequency sections like Wimbledon and Barnes inwards. I’m...
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.I don’t think the acceleration of the current 455s is the main issue on journey times. Without a conversion to something like ETCS...
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.So this isn’t a new delay, rather just a poor report on what’s been going on so far?
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Llewisf replied to the thread How many centre cars in a 158/159.They don’t even have to be centre cars. GWR have a number of 3 car units that are made of 3 driving cars with a cab in the middle
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.So at this rate it’s going to take about 10 years to roll out all the units November 2020, not that it makes too much difference at...
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Llewisf replied to the thread Class 701 SWR introduction delays: what should happen now?.Is this the last blocker before mass rollout can begin, or are there other unresolved issues 8 years after the order for these trains...