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The 80X fleet can and has run with the regen braking isolated.

GWR have several different pay scales, dependent on if it’s a GWR (ex FGW) depot, an ex Wessex depot or an old Thames depot. There were talks about getting them to all the same level. The old Wessex contracts are (we’re as my info is a bit out of date) based on the CAT system, whilst GWR...

The whole set up is at the heart of the matter, minimal time at outstations overnight, diagrams that keep units in the WC for an extended time, making it difficult to get them back to a main depot if they have a repair that needs doing. The contracts that make use of units across the board nigh...

There were a number of units out of service for repairs, that were absolutely nothing to do with train reliability. Two front ends damaged by fatalities, two 5 cars and a 9 car damaged by hitting something near Hullavington and the subsequent ballast strike, the 9 car has suffered a lot of...

Wouldn’t be a hardship in Reading, but in PZ there would be an effect by the job losses.

It’s sleeper stock that would need modifying to use with power cars, it was looked at and dismissed.

Both types have and have had for a while, the same engine software. There is an update, but that is being rolled across both fleets, so again, no difference.

I’m afraid not, but rest assured, it’s nothing to do with air intakes. They cope with spray, they have suffered when they are actually hit by waves, two different things.

You are totally wrong.

That wasn’t there in Valenta days and it’s not the engine management system, that’s the MDEC which is bolted to the non alternator end of the engine. The box contains the interface between powercar and MTU, mostly relays.

If the fire system went off, you’d do an emergency evacuation of the guards van area of the power car, long before any gas killed anyone. The guards van was never included in the discharge system, so the risk would be virtually zero.

What gas? There isn’t any gas that would gas anyone.

Why would travelling in the back of a power car risk gassing anyone?

The software could be changed, but not without sorting out the consequences of the engines not shutting down. It would be possible to make a train that was wave proof, but at what cost, for a few hundred yards of track. The reports from the crews were that the trains had been hit by waves...

It was the line closed last night, due to the railhead being underwater, so closed to all traffic, not just 800/802.