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Existing power cars stay.
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Transfer of LNER HST 125s to East Midlands Railway (EMR)
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On Monday the Dundee - Plymouth was declared a failure at Edinburgh with the ecs believe to have run to LA that same day . Yesterday the same service was a 4 car voyager. Maybe XC have realised they have no slack in the system or maybe the failed set is economically not viable to repair given all the spare power cars now available. Both options could be feasible replacing a HST set with a 4 car voyager is not good for the image , especially with the running of the railways in the spotlight at the minute with both Northern and TPE getting a battering .
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Your theory is totally wrong.
As I’ve said maybe....
DarloRich
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this seems a bit tin foily. I suspect XC have been able to get themselves some spare ( or perhaps spares) vehicles for a decent price.
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And I've said definitely not.
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That train is only booked to be an HST on certain days. It was booked to be a Voyager yesterday, irrespective of any failure.
It did go ECS to Laira under its own power:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O77971/2020-01-06/detailed (incorrectly input as LNER)
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O78034/2020-01-06/detailed
I hope there are Mk3s to go with them if this is the case. Do LNER locos have ATP installed? I remember XC saying that was the reason they couldn't take on FGW locos.
Edit: I've convinced myself that they do not as I remember them being hired in to XC last summer.
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To be used in service, or to be used as a source of spare parts?
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Thanks for the info.
It did I watched them change drivers at Derby , both power cars were working .
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Which doesn’t really answer the question. Definitely a “wait and see”.
RTT - definitely not the be all and end all - has 3 schedules in for this week for this service:
A MO
A TWTHO
A FO
All diagrammed for a 125 high speed train , not sure whether that’s just for this week though
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Well considering EMR (and XC) are the only company left in england with full HSTs in service and their HSTs will soon be replaced by HSTs which have already been exempted from the PRM. You wonder why EMRs 43/0s will never get PIS displays
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RTT - definitely not the be all and end all - has 3 schedules in for this week for this service:
A MO
A TWTHO
A FO
All diagrammed for a 125 high speed train , not sure whether that’s just for this week though
As has been stated on many previous occasions, RTT does not say what something is the booked traction. "Pathed as" does not mean "diagrammed for".
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Take a look at post 4 in this thread for current XC HST diagrams:RTT - definitely not the be all and end all - has 3 schedules in for this week for this service:
A MO
A TWTHO
A FO
All diagrammed for a 125 high speed train , not sure whether that’s just for this week though
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/frequently-requested-diagrams.170615/
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The sets transferring from LNER to EMR have PIS displays.
Apart from XC which will probably have them longer than EMR
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Almost forgot
Are they any good? retrofitted fitted PIS displays havent gone down to well with customers so far.
Iam surprised as I thought the HST wont get them but only the 91s would??
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Iam surprised as I thought the HST wont get them but only the 91s would??
As I understand it the PIS is being fitted to the sets before they transfer to EMR. Certainly none of the LNER HSTs I've been on in recent months had PIS screens fitted.
Or Great Western Railway/ScotRail with their extensive refurbishments.
Both of those operate short sets whereas EMR and XC have full sets. XC have also refurbished theirs.
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No they don't as it was only for the GWML HST's.
Many thanks for that
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Should be 43274 as well.
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On the 1134 to Nottingham, I have to say I won't miss the EMR carriages, I'd forgotten how uncomfortable I find the IC70 seats , they're far too low backed
I'm on 1B58 with 43 052 and 43 467. Is it common to have VP185 and MTU power in the same set? I will have to agree with the above post that the mallard interiors are far superior to the IC70 seats. The ride quality of these Mk3s are worse than I've come to expect on GWRs 255 sets.
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