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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Yes, ASDO is needed for Shepreth, Meldreth, Littleport and Watlington (max. 4 coaches). Only the latter two are served by Kings Lynn trains - the other two are served by the Cambridge stopper.
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    They run on different and incompatible train management systems (TMS).
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    ... in 2025, by which point additional services may be necessary on Thameslink/GN too. Southern doesn't need additional capacity while they are still selling £7 advances for Portsmouth to London (are they still running that peak advance fares trial?).
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    In which case Southern doesn't need any more units either as there are no plans to increase services there. The plan I suggested future-proofs for potential passenger growth across all three brands. Fairly alright I should imagine. Keep in mind that the Thameslink programme transferred a lot of...
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Before Covid it had: 84 class 365 carriages 116 class 387/1 carriages = 200 carriages 120 class 379 carriages are now entering the mix and the 365's have been scrapped, so about 9 387/1's could go south, alongside the 10 additional units it has since received (387 201, ex-c2c and ex-GWR) to...
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Of note is this quote by GTR's Engineering Director (my bold/underlining): My understanding of this is that the 379's are here to increase capacity and not to enable some sort of complicated cascade (although I would expect some movement of units, just not of the scale or complexity being...
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    "Please avoid using any third party applications"

    It's been behaving a little bit better recently. Now they send platform information, only once it has been confirmed though. It happens somewhat often at certain stations. Kings Cross was not sending any platform information for a number of weeks a few months back. The CIS workstation should...
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    "Please avoid using any third party applications"

    They wouldn't be shown as "estimated" if the platform was confirmed in good time. Granted Trainline should make the estimated text more present, and it shouldn't be showing estimated platforms when they are suppressed. However, some TOCs (and Network Rail) are also quite poor at maintaining...
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    "Please avoid using any third party applications"

    That's the TOCs fault. Apps only show the information they are relayed. If your TOC had bothered to make sure that information was flowing correctly, then those incidents would not have happened.
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    "Please avoid using any third party applications"

    All apps using National Rail feeds are meant to hide platform numbers where they are accompanied with a suppression instruction. Paddington suppresses platform information until the train is ready to board (and re-suppress them when the train is ready to leave). Most apps and websites comply...
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Here is the gov.uk link: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007878-2024
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    The whole cascade thing is a rumour, which I would doubt to be true due to the sheer complexity and impractibility of it. There was an SN -> SE electrostar cascade once, and now some people seem to be hard-wired into thinking that 379's to GN must mean 387's to SN which must mean 377's to SE...
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    They could use 717's, or 387 101. I don't think we'll be seeing trials during normal operating hours for a while though, unless I have missed a major development. It should happen when the residents of Stevenage, Hertford, Welwyn and Hatfield get the right to vote for the Mayor of London. Which...
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    I commute on GN outer suburban regularly - it is desperately necessary. People being left behind is generally a good indication of more capacity being needed. It is conceivable that that can be achieved without additional rolling stock - the number of 465 and 466 diagrams has been cut by...
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    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    There aren't enough 379's to fully displace the GN 387 fleet. GN desperately needs more units, not less - especially if the plan is to go ahead with the proposed ECML timetable in December and the opening of Cambridge South. Also, I can't see many 387's going south, particularly because of the...

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