How could they be more open?
They have commercial agreements and relationships to look after - you can't expect them to come out openly and slag CAF off for being at fault for delivering a sub-par set of carriages. From what I understand, talking to someone at TPE, the legal stuff is set to rumble on.
Then you've got internal information that is going out to their staff getting leaked out on here and social media. If their staff want more information, perhaps they shouldn't spray it about on the internet when told in confidence. And yes, I appreciate that I myself have benefited from knowing a few folk at TPE.
And finally, you can't go on and slag off TPE for giving dates and not meeting them then subsequently slag them off for not giving dates of when these trains are about to enter service. Hypocrisy, Irony, whatever you want to call it. The job TPE are trying to do is bring in 3 fleets and they don't need the distraction of mis-information and nosey rail enthusiasts.
What a strange post, especially when directed towards
@Ben Bow who always makes such polite, reasoned and balanced observations.
In December 2018 TPE were happy to go public about the problems with Nova 3 when braking below 8 mph, the story made the ‘Yorkshire Post’ and other regional newspapers, not just forums and the railway press. The announcements quoted official TPE sources.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...the-brakes-do-not-work-properly-1-9440997/amp
It’s my understanding (from previous posts) that a fair number of problems have arisen from the braking system, which isn’t manufactured by CAF, and was built to a TPE specification (happy to be corrected on that, if you know better).
Regarding ‘nosey trainspotters’; yes, loco hauled stock is always going to attract a lot of attention. To quote Sir Peter Parker, ‘running the railway is like heavy engineering in public’. I don’t think though that it’s just ‘trainspotters’ who are taking an interest, have a nosey at the TPE twitter stream.
Regarding your comments about TfN, I think you are right, they seem happy to stand back. I don’t work for TPE, so I can’t possibly know the unit diagrams, but I do wonder if introducing the 802 units will actually help the core route more than getting all the Nova 3 sets into traffic as soon as possible. Certainly expanding the TPE network at a time when there are so many problems on the core route seems extraordinary.
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