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Abellio Greater Anglia Class 755s (Regional Trains)

LAX54

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would the moaning / complaints have been a little less, if GA had said near the starrt, that there appeared ton be some issues with the 755's and that there could be cancellations / delays over the next few months ? maybe they should have cancelled / postponed the fare rise ?
 
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would the moaning / complaints have been a little less, if GA had said near the starrt, that there appeared ton be some issues with the 755's and that there could be cancellations / delays over the next few months ? maybe they should have cancelled / postponed the fare rise ?
I'm not sure if they're able to make statements like that without legal ramifications. As for cancellation of the fare rise, trouble is it's built into the franchise bid and if not implemented almost exactly when they say they will, would make their already precarious financial situation even worse. The fact that regional area passengers get most of their travel for free via delay repay is probably painful enough.
 

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As the train was full did the 'seat free' indicators work as some have suggested they don't ?
I'm yet to see them work. On Monday when the 0616 IPS-CBG had been cancelled, and then the 0654 was part cancelled from BSE, but then reinstated as we pulled into BSE, by the time we were leaving Kennet it was standing room only. Even more people got on at Newmarket, and from Dullingham onwards people were standing in the engine carriage so the Dullingham people could get on. The only reason people weren't left behind was the reinstatement of the service not going out to various info systems, so people who could drive had driven, and some people at Stowmarket decided return back to Ipswich rather than try and continue with a bus at Bury. Impressively it arrived a few minutes early into Cambridge which meant I was able to catch the Norwich train to get to Cambridge North. I digress...

During all of this, the displays were all green suggesting there were seats, with no amber or red. So I'm yet sure they aren't working yet, unless they are on other units.
 

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I'm yet to see them work. On Monday when the 0616 IPS-CBG had been cancelled, and then the 0654 was part cancelled from BSE, but then reinstated as we pulled into BSE, by the time we were leaving Kennet it was standing room only. Even more people got on at Newmarket, and from Dullingham onwards people were standing in the engine carriage so the Dullingham people could get on. The only reason people weren't left behind was the reinstatement of the service not going out to various info systems, so people who could drive had driven, and some people at Stowmarket decided return back to Ipswich rather than try and continue with a bus at Bury. Impressively it arrived a few minutes early into Cambridge which meant I was able to catch the Norwich train to get to Cambridge North. I digress...

During all of this, the displays were all green suggesting there were seats, with no amber or red. So I'm yet sure they aren't working yet, unless they are on other units.
Thanks.

I had an interesting day on FLIRTS today. 404 Sheringham - Norwich 407 Norwich - Yarmouth and 333 Lowestoft- Norwich - Sheringham. All were on time and seemed to be working as intended including the previously troublesome upcoming station delays. All except 1545 Norwich - Sheingham were lightly loaded and even that had a scattering of spare seats so I can't comment as to whether the seat free indicators were working.

The 3 cars were certainly working a lot hardr than the 4 car and the noise and vibration between Whitlingham and the NDR was quite noticeable but certainly not intrusive.

A great improvement on what had gone before
 

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Thanks.

I had an interesting day on FLIRTS today. 404 Sheringham - Norwich 407 Norwich - Yarmouth and 333 Lowestoft- Norwich - Sheringham. All were on time and seemed to be working as intended including the previously troublesome upcoming station delays. All except 1545 Norwich - Sheingham were lightly loaded and even that had a scattering of spare seats so I can't comment as to whether the seat free indicators were working.

The 3 cars were certainly working a lot hardr than the 4 car and the noise and vibration between Whitlingham and the NDR was quite noticeable but certainly not intrusive.

A great improvement on what had gone before
P.S. A fellow passenger opined that the three car versions were now restricted to disel operation only as the changeover sofware was causing problems, Anything known?
 

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I had an interesting day on FLIRTS today.

I also recently took a day to scratch around on the rural routes on the GA Anglia Plus Day Ranger (£24.70 from all good booking offices, LOL) and must have been so lucky because everything run to time and did not fail one bit.

I really liked them to be honest. The quality of the interior fittings seemed high, they went well and the ride quality and ambience were good. The starkly lit pristine white tunnel down the middle of the power car reminded me of corridors in sci-fi spacecraft such as those of 'Discovery One' from 2001 Space Odyssey. Another vehicle whose computerised management system rebelled against its human crew!

In fact they might as well be spacecraft come down in bucolic Norfolk compared to what went before. These were quiet off peak, off season services - so not many people talking nearby - but in the course of my travels I nonetheless heard three sets of people discussing the 'nice new trains', two onboard and one at at a cafe when a 755 went past.
 
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P.S. A fellow passenger opined that the three car versions were now restricted to disel operation only as the changeover sofware was causing problems, Anything known?

This was certainly the case earlier in the week. Not sure why the restriction was in place.
 

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The starkly lit pristine white tunnel down the middle of the power car reminded me of corridors in sci-fi spacecraft
Out of curiosity is all maintenance on the power packs carried out from the exterior or are some of those pristine white panels removable?

If so then they might not look so pristine after a while...
 

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P.S. A fellow passenger opined that the three car versions were now restricted to disel operation only as the changeover sofware was causing problems, Anything known?

I was on 755337 from Ely to Cambridge this afternoon, it successfully changed from diesel to electric. I have noticed both 3- and 4-car units still running on diesel under the wires on numerous occasions though.
 

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I was on 755337 from Ely to Cambridge this afternoon, it successfully changed from diesel to electric. I have noticed both 3- and 4-car units still running on diesel under the wires on numerous occasions though.
Thanks , so maybe only some units with isolated pans as DK 1 has stated.
 

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Is it trial multiple working day? Everything regional from Ipswich that's not cancelled is showing as 7 coaches? Or is that the information systems showing nonsense again?
 

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Is it trial multiple working day? Everything regional from Ipswich that's not cancelled is showing as 7 coaches? Or is that the information systems showing nonsense again?

Not seen anything surprising on the old screens today - is this on the new screens?

Post processing going wrong again I would suspect, should just fire the raw data out like it is to the older screens rather than trying to do something smart with it.
 

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You knew it was the new screens, of course it is! ;)

I wouldn't like to be a foreigner in Ipswich Station at the moment.

List says 1358 Peterborough (for Cambridge was cancelled...) from 2B. The first bit of platform 2 you get to says it is platform 2. Walk to the other end. Is that 2B? There are no signs for platform 2B. Board there says Platform 2, 1409 London. Walk back to the other board. It says Platform 4B 1358 Felixstowe?

Manual announcement clears confusion... If you hear and understand it.
 

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12:00 and 12:30 LST to NRW cancelled so hopped on the 11:55 stanex and picked up the 755 to Norwich there. Approaching Wymondham as we speak. Apart from the intrusive heating ducts and cantilevers and the ugly window rubbers these are pretty much perfect regional...let alone local...trains. Probably only saved myself 10 mins over waiting for the 13:00 (2h39 total journey time this way round) or may have been able to have got a quicker connection at Cambridge but I've enjoyed a tour of the fens and sat with a table on comfy trains all the way (and I think I read somewhere on the 745 thread that the 13:00 is most likely to be a 321, so I had a lucky escape from the hell or 3 trains worth shoved onto one of those heaps)
 

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12:00 and 12:30 LST to NRW cancelled so hopped on the 11:55 stanex and picked up the 755 to Norwich there. Approaching Wymondham as we speak. Apart from the intrusive heating ducts and cantilevers and the ugly window rubbers these are pretty much perfect regional...let alone local...trains. Probably only saved myself 10 mins over waiting for the 13:00 (2h39 total journey time this way round) or may have been able to have got a quicker connection at Cambridge but I've enjoyed a tour of the fens and sat with a table on comfy trains all the way (and I think I read somewhere on the 745 thread that the 13:00 is most likely to be a 321, so I had a lucky escape from the hell or 3 trains worth shoved onto one of those heaps)

1300: 90006 / 82143 :) (NC08)
 

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You knew it was the new screens, of course it is! ;)

I wouldn't like to be a foreigner in Ipswich Station at the moment.

List says 1358 Peterborough (for Cambridge was cancelled...) from 2B. The first bit of platform 2 you get to says it is platform 2. Walk to the other end. Is that 2B? There are no signs for platform 2B. Board there says Platform 2, 1409 London. Walk back to the other board. It says Platform 4B 1358 Felixstowe?

Manual announcement clears confusion... If you hear and understand it.
Yes! If the new trains didn't have destination indicators, lots of hearing-impaired people and some foreigners would be completely stuffed.
 

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I thought I'd read that the 13:00 was the turn most likely to be a 321. Still glad I avoided 3 trainloads in one, even if it would have been a 90
in fact it was only the 1200 cancelled, 1130, 1230 and 1300 all ran to time
 

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I thought I'd read that the 13:00 was the turn most likely to be a 321. Still glad I avoided 3 trainloads in one, even if it would have been a 90
Some trains where turned at Diss this morning so units & sets would've been off diagram.
 

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Is there some strange force between Bury and Chippenham Jct ? This seems to be the area most 755s have a wobble and fail !
 

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Is there some strange force between Bury and Chippenham Jct ? This seems to be the area most 755s have a wobble and fail !

I was also wondering about that.

Is the one at Stowmarket from 2W07 that terminated there ?
 

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Is there some strange force between Bury and Chippenham Jct ? This seems to be the area most 755s have a wobble and fail !
It's got to be something to do with gradients as seems to cause overheating. Problem does seem worse with the 755/3s. Thurston/Bury/Kennet are appearing several times a day requiring a reboot.
 

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It's got to be something to do with gradients as seems to cause overheating. Problem does seem worse with the 755/3s. Thurston/Bury/Kennet are appearing several times a day requiring a reboot.

Methinks that since each engine / gen-set is packaged with it's own cooling system, then the twin-engined 753's have to work harder & could have cooling problems if only 'cos they're not much lighter than the 754's. (Anyone know the weight of the extra intermediate car body + it's bogie ?)
 

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It's got to be something to do with gradients as seems to cause overheating. Problem does seem worse with the 755/3s. Thurston/Bury/Kennet are appearing several times a day requiring a reboot.

Mmmm, if they turn out to be a bit too heavy fpr said gradients, that might open a can of worms !
 

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Not sure how long ago it was someone speculated this thread might only have another 6 pages in it, but sadly it still seems to be going strong!

I hope we aren't about to get into a situation where all the types of new trains are causing teething problems at the same time.

(And I've always been wondering why our Flirts are so much worse than Estonia's were. Gradients could account for it...)
 

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