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Merseyrail Class 777 introduction updates

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Out of interest, is the battery trial still going ahead? If so, does anyone know which unit it'll be?

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Trains Trains said:
Test run sat morning to test updates then should be as planned tests Sunday and Monday. Sundays test apparently changed slightly with times but this will be showed on RTT. Unit 004 and 006 going this Thursday to Crewe
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How about 777003 going to Crewe, wasn't that already meant to have taken place by now?
Are they going to Crewe to be fitted with guard panels? Is it only 003, 004 and 006 which will need to go to Crewe?
 
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Hasn't been decided yet on the unit , it was meant to be unit 5 I think originally. I think it's going ahead still but later on in the delivery. It certainly isn't fitted to any units currently being built. Worth noting it has not been officially confirmed that it is going ahead by anyone
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Cheers for that, much appreciated. :)
 
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The large batteries were originally to be fitted to unit 006. Then, following Stadler encountering difficulties in designing a system that would keep the batteries cool, there was a delay in progress until further funding was found to enable design and development to proceed. Unit 008 was then said to be the recipient but clearly this did not happen. Recent enquiries revealed that the project is still going ahead but there was no specific unit identified as of three weeks ago. Of course, Covid-19 may well have played a part in this.
 
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I trust they are going to do (night-time?) test runs with doors? LNR must have regretted not doing with the 230s, as the issues caused by them being very slow were not highlighted.
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They've already been performing all station stops with door test in the early hours, I got a video of one at Bache a few weeks ago around 2.30AM.
 
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They've already been performing all station stops with door test in the early hours, I got a video of one at Bache a few weeks ago around 2.30AM.
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But not on the Northern Line as yet.

6X29 currently in the Down Siding at Crewe South Yard (@ 19:15)
 
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May have already been answered but anyone know which 777 is at Crewe LNWR and why it's there?
 
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