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11:11 Leeds to Plymouth XC HST

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Most likely one of the coaches needs some maintenance and there are no spares to put in its place. I think it has been running as a 2+6 for around a week now.
 
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'Rail' magazine (latest edition) is reporting that the reduction is permanent for all the sets. It adds that 'XC is investigating ways of improving capacity(!) - including running more, shorter, HSTs. It is looking.... at leasing a small number of additional '43s' for service requirements'.
 

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Set XC03, I had this on Wednesday as a 6 coach set.
 

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'Rail' magazine (latest edition) is reporting that the reduction is permanent for all the sets. It adds that 'XC is investigating ways of improving capacity(!) - including running more, shorter, HSTs. It is looking.... at leasing a small number of additional '43s' for service requirements'.
No it's not.
 

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XC03 was declared a failure on 1V54 at Edinburgh last friday. It had coach C knocked out of the consist so the set could continue in traffic. AFAIK the broken coach is still at EC.
 

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No it's not.
It looks like ex-LNER power cars 43208 & 43239 are being reserved for Cross-Country, they are apparently at Eastleigh getting painted up into XC livery. There is no word on any extra MKIII's for XC, so it looks like these 2 extra power cars will give them 12 power cars for 5 sets (when XC05 is completed at Wabtec)
 

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It looks like ex-LNER power cars 43208 & 43239 are being reserved for Cross-Country, they are apparently at Eastleigh getting painted up into XC livery. There is no word on any extra MKIII's for XC, so it looks like these 2 extra power cars will give them 12 power cars for 5 sets (when XC05 is completed at Wabtec)
Indeed, to allow for more intensive running of the 5 sets.
 

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The OP has their answer and there's already a thread on the subject of the transfer of Power Cars to XC so I suggest any further discussion takes place there.
 
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