Not bad at only 4 years late…
About the same as the SWR 701s which are apparently soon to enter service...
Not as yet. There doesn't tend to be any kind of 'official' announcement around things like this, rather it depends on in-the-know staff tipping off others.
91201- 91001 was again in service yesterday.
91347+92347 was the unit concerned
It needs a deep clean, some new flooring and some new cushions. Apparently the moquette didn't even catch fire. Word on the ground is it was fireworks.
I don't agree with this sentence, after seeing the video.
two broken windows too.
I'm certainly not an engineer by any standard, and too dim to to be able to share the video here, but it seemed to need more than a deep clean as mentioned above.
That's actually very reassuring about the fire safety of modern trains, if despite all that fire and smoke, that's the only extent of the damage of sustained. The lights are even still working!
As I said above, in a post that's then been misquoted as saying the train only needs a clean, all of the parts needed will most likely already be in depot stores, except perhaps the door under the perch seat but I've seen them fabricated on demand before. I'd be very surprised if it couldn't be done within standard depot resources, albeit perhaps increasing the overtime bill.
The fleet is already extremely short due to a large number of faults, with severe delays being advertised every day for the past week, including right now.
Thanks for the informative reply. I didn't mean to imply that the damage was minor or cosmetic, far from it - I was more expressing surprise that the carriage wasn't completely destroyed by the fire, and does seem to be repairable.
You'd be surprised how modular things are now. You could probably dismantle the entire interior of any modern train with only two or three different tools.
A shame. I find the man's voice is easier to hear over rough paintwork etc
