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To.be fair it’s very hard to be able to make decisions regarding 1st and last trains. Maintenance teams also need access on a safe manner when no trains are operating..The earlier you run trains and the later they run. Reduces night access to the infrastructure which later down the line will be...

your forgetting the tri-mode flirt 756s

Temporary stopgap maybe. 15x dont meet latest emission standards. Battery technology or maybe hydrogen could be a good project to repurpose some 15x fleets.

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i did remember seeing it posted somewhere i got the impression that the next fleet replacement tender is for Northern 15x fleets, Chiltern stock, TPE units and then GWR replacement of 15x/16x fleets. Only thing i can recall is that they were 24m vehicles with bi mode spec which could include 750v dc

How many sets have been lengthened to 5-cars?

I dont think its being promoted just yet.

What sections of the Rhymney Valley line is being electrified?

I think Coryton service will run to Penarth

Is it just drawing power from the overhead line to the traction motors just being stationary

If you think of it as 175 fleet had 11 2-cars, 16 3-car 27 units and 24 2-car 158s. The new 197s 51 2-car sets 26 3-car plus your MK4s. That’s the bulk of mainline fleet. Not including the 11 4-car 231s that will eventually do Ebbw Vale, Maesteg & Cheltenham’s.

How accurate is the 18th Dec not convinced they got enough staff trained on them.

Wales Route Operating Centre might just be at capacity. Ebbw Valley is being resignalled so that will go into Wales Route Operating Centre. Rhymney Valley including Queen St will move from Wales Route Operating Centre to Core Vallet Lines Intergated Control Centre at Taffs Well. Makes sense west...

I might be wrong the Crewe stopper I’d say is a bit iffy as I’m sure Cardiff drivers do some of them. Don’t think there is going to be enough drivers trained to do it. Crewe stopper is a self contained diagram which uses the same unit nearly all day vice versa.

How diesel gen units are in the 756 power pack? I thought it was less than a 231 because they have batteries fitted.

Not enough crews to do that just yet! I wouldnt follow RTT for that probably be swapped out for something else

Before the increased service on the Cambrian there use to be an 0810 Machynlleth to Aberystwyth service Mon-Fri it use to attach to the 0625 Bham New St-Aberystwyth in platform at Aberystwyth making a 4-car train. Upon arrival at Machynlleth it use to Join up with the Pwllheli portion making it...

I the Liverpool-Shrewsbury/Cardiff service cant happen yet. There needs some additional signals put in between Shrewsbury and Gobowen before that happens

They wont be in Avanti’s hands for a few months at least

I think 2 x 197s will be pushing it from May. Nobody in South Wales have yet to be trained on them, numbers in Crewe and Shrewsbury also low I’d say faint possibility of July/August onwards or maybe later in the year.