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Local paper knows about it too https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17781759.caravan-ends-railway-line-coming-loose-car/Found the problem:
Local paper knows about it too https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17781759.caravan-ends-railway-line-coming-loose-car/Found the problem:
Those trains were GBRF moves, operated on behalf of Hitachi, as opposed to today's run I was referring to, which is being operated by TPE themselves.Yeah there are numerous 802s running test between York and Newcastle. Had both a 10 car and a 5 car chasing me yesterday
Transpennine Express New Trains Staff Conference
Transpennine Express New Trains Staff Conference
No, it's 397006 being taken up to Manchester International by 47813 and 57305 (Assuming there's only one stock movement from Portbury today).Is the current Portbury to Manchester working another new set of the Mk5As?
outside bushbury has i type.No, it's 397006 being taken up to Manchester International by 47813 and 57305 (Assuming there's only one stock movement from Portbury today).
Hopefully not going to MID but going to Crewe South Yard, full up at MID at the moment.No, it's 397006 being taken up to Manchester International by 47813 and 57305 (Assuming there's only one stock movement from Portbury today).
Hopefully not going to MID but going to Crewe South Yard, full up at MID at the moment.
The current plan for new trains intro is as follows...
Ad hoc Mk5A on Liverpool to Scarborough (05:56 from Liverpool, 0941 from Scarborough) from 5 August.
The main day to watch is Monday 21 October: a class 802 on Liverpool to Newcastle and back diagram will enter service.
4x Mk5A trains in passenger service from that day as well on Liverpool to Scarborough. Will remain as 4 sets until spring 2020.
Plus the 397s start on that day on select diagrams on the WCML.
That seems a lot to all happen on the same day, a lot of work involved! I wonder if they will end up staggering those three a bit.The current plan for new trains intro is as follows...
Ad hoc Mk5A on Liverpool to Scarborough (05:56 from Liverpool, 0941 from Scarborough) from 5 August.
The main day to watch is Monday 21 October: a class 802 on Liverpool to Newcastle and back diagram will enter service.
4x Mk5A trains in passenger service from that day as well on Liverpool to Scarborough. Will remain as 4 sets until spring 2020.
Plus the 397s start on that day on select diagrams on the WCML.
Very nice images. Worth bagging a set that way around, I think in normal service the loco will be on the Liverpool end. Haha about the 03 or 08A couple more photos from during the Scarborough 'turnaround' yesterday morning. No class 03 or 08 required these days unlike the last time we had loco hauled trains over here
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This is big news! I would think more 802s will be accepted in the meantime. However this is the 5a thread and so its good to see they will be operating however limited that maybe. Will the displaced 185s become doubled up on some services that's the big question of us poor passengers who suffer grim overcrowding seen on TPE's network.
Doh! Cant believe that after being involved in these all the from Velim to testing and commissioning to training the TPE lads I'm on bloody leave when they come into service!!!The current plan for new trains intro is as follows...
Ad hoc Mk5A on Liverpool to Scarborough (05:56 from Liverpool, 0941 from Scarborough) from 5 August.
The main day to watch is Monday 21 October: a class 802 on Liverpool to Newcastle and back diagram will enter service.
4x Mk5A trains in passenger service from that day as well on Liverpool to Scarborough. Will remain as 4 sets until spring 2020.
Plus the 397s start on that day on select diagrams on the WCML.
The current plan for new trains intro is as follows...
Ad hoc Mk5A on Liverpool to Scarborough (05:56 from Liverpool, 0941 from Scarborough) from 5 August.
The main day to watch is Monday 21 October: a class 802 on Liverpool to Newcastle and back diagram will enter service.
4x Mk5A trains in passenger service from that day as well on Liverpool to Scarborough. Will remain as 4 sets until spring 2020.
Plus the 397s start on that day on select diagrams on the WCML.
I suspect it will be down to:When you say ad-hoc, will there be any rhyme or reason as to when they'll be used?
I suspect it will be down to:
a) whether a set is available that isn't otherwise needed for crew training
And
b) whether the various train crews booked to work on the set throughout it's full diagram have been passed out yet.
I understand training for Manchester Airport guards, who are the first to be trained on the mk.5a stock, starts on 9 August. But maybe there are other staff available to cover the role until the first Airport guards are passed out. Depends on how desperate TPE are to get Nova 3 into service I suppose. A full day's diagram would require many crews, not helped by guards and drivers working to completely different diagrams from different depots (drivers Piccadilly, guards Airport).
Nothing to say that the currently train driver instructors and guard instructors can't work the ad hoc service. I am lead to believe the ad-hoc workings will be as per the example above = one trip from Liverpool to Scarborough and back to Liverpool, which on the diagram I mentioned will require 2 guards and drivers in total.
Absolutely, but given the increasing training requirements on 397's and 802's which have taken priority over the Nova 3's it seems, one would expect that instructors would not be usurped unless there is real need for a Nova 3 set to be in service.
Surely some staff training can take place in service?
Indeed it can, and that is the plan.