Abellio Greater Anglia Class 755s (Regional Trains)

[LAX54]

Victoria Sidings? Honestly, never heard of them

Not used since the late 80's maybe early 90's, recall having ballast trains in there.

 

[LAX54]

755's now cleared for Somerleyton Bridge, and can run with one pan raised Liverpool Street - Norwich, allowed 2 pans up Stowmarket to Trowse

 

[Railperf]

755's now cleared for Somerleyton Bridge, and can run with one pan raised Liverpool Street - Norwich, allowed 2 pans up Stowmarket to Trowse

Is the single pan restriction a temporary one? Is some fix required to the pantographs or Overhead line equipment to allow 2 pantographs to be raised? Clearly Class 317, 321 and 360's are all allowed 2 pantographs up for the full length of the route.

 

[LAX54]

I seem to recall mention of 2 engines around the 750bhp mark ie 1500 bhp which should be enough to shift these things around the Wireless sections of Anglia I would have thought.

They are still under test, and are not GA's yet, in time the restriction I assume will be lifted,

Is the single pan restriction a temporary one? Is some fix required to the pantographs or Overhead line equipment to allow 2 pantographs to be raised? Clearly Class 317, 321 and 360's are all allowed 2 pantographs up for the full length of the route.

As they are still under test, and not part of GA yet, restrictions will apply for various things until tested, and cleared, once everything is sorted, and all OK, then GA will accept them into the fleet there were some route restrictions at Colchester and Norwich over various sets points, these have been lifted too, however there are more to go yet, as each test run gets completed, no doubt something else is 'signed off'

 

[Railperf]

What is the current betting we will see a 755 or two running the Norwich in 90? I would have thought these units should have been accepted by now to make that happen?

 

[LAX54]

What is the current betting we will see a 755 or two running the Norwich in 90? I would have thought these units should have been accepted by now to make that happen?

Think that is the plan, if not will be a Hauled set which it has to be said did 'Norwich to London in 100' the other day, and that included 4 stops en route

 

[dk1]

Think that is the plan, if not will be a Hauled set which it has to be said did 'Norwich to London in 100' the other day, and that included 4 stops en route

Easily achievable Swills mate when you've got the right people on duty & a clear run

 

[LAX54]

Easily achievable Swills mate when you've got the right people on duty & a clear run

we do our best here sometimes it does not go to plan tho !

 

[Owen]

Think that is the plan, if not will be a Hauled set which it has to be said did 'Norwich to London in 100' the other day, and that included 4 stops en route

I did Norwich to London in 102 a few weeks ago, but with having to sit outside Liverpool Street the timing became 107.

I would think 85 is possible with one stop.

 

[Alfie1014]

The 15:30 up and 17:50 back were today advertised as 6 coach’s no First Class. Shortened set as a prelude to May perhaps?

 

[LAX54]

1530 and 1750 were 8 plus DVT
82133
12167
12027
12098
12064
12051
10404
11095
11070
90006

 

[Alfie1014]

Interesting this is what they tweeted out a number of times up until departure time and it didn’t stop at Colchester according to RTT?

 

[rick_suffolk]

It looked just like the two first class carriages were locked out of use, not sure why

 

[TheEdge]

Does anyone know the route they take through Europe? Also how they get through the tunnel? Do they come through dragged on their own or just coupled to the back of one of the freights? Just out of interest.

 

[dk1]

The 15:30 up and 17:50 back were today advertised as 6 coach’s no First Class. Shortened set as a prelude to May perhaps?

No, just defective vehicles locked out of use. 17:50 can be full & standing with a load 9 so makes sense to remove Colchester from the calling pattern.

 

[LAX54]

745104 will be doing a test trip tonight, 37 hauled to Diss then SPZ running Diss - Trowse - Diss, then 37 hauled back to Crown Point, not sure it's had any successful runs yet ?

5Q11, 12, 13 and then 14 back to Norwich

 

[LAX54]

No, just defective vehicles locked out of use. 17:50 can be full & standing with a load 9 so makes sense to remove Colchester from the calling pattern.

|TRUST says 1P52 called at Colchester 42 to 43, but arrived Manningtree 3 early, so not sure that report is correct, (its also a manual report ! )

 

[Class 170101]

No, just defective vehicles locked out of use. 17:50 can be full & standing with a load 9 so makes sense to remove Colchester from the calling pattern.

Was tempted ask if it was a pair of Class 170s

 

[jopsuk]

Saw the Class 745 sat outside Crown Point today- as it is a Stansted Express unit, I was surprised to see Cycle markings on it, as I was given to understand at the last GA Cycle Forum that the Stansted Express version would have 0 cycle spaces? Seen on the train I was on: a driver (I think) travelling pass taking photos of it as we passed :P

 

[LAX54]

W/C 14th, the BiMode is out on mileage accumaltion runs:
Mon, Weds and Thurs




Crown Point 07+53 5G91

Norwich 08+03 08+10 5G51

Colch Up Loop 09+16 09+34 5G52

Norwich LL 11+01 11+33 5G53

Ipswich 12+21 12+30 5G54

Norwich 13+23 14+09 5G55

Ipswich 14+52 14+59 5G56

Norwich 15+43 15+53 5G92

Crown Point 16+03

 

[trebor79]

Norwich LL?

How many miles need to be accumulated before trains can start entering service?

 

[LAX54]

Norwich LL?

How many miles need to be accumulated before trains can start entering service?

Low Level aka Royal Dock aka c/sdgs....

 

[dazzler]

Norwich LL?

Low Level aka Royal Dock aka c/sdgs....

I was going to ask that myself. If you get much lower down than Norwich Thorpe station, the train crew would need sub-aqua breathing apparatus!

 

[LAX54]

I was going to ask that myself. If you get much lower down than Norwich Thorpe station, the train crew would need sub-aqua breathing apparatus!

Low Level / Royal Dock

 

[rdlover777]

Norwich LL?

How many miles need to be accumulated before trains can start entering service?

i think about 500 or so miles

 

[LAX54]

i think about 500 or so miles

Must be more than that (a lot more) ? 500 miles is barely half a days work for a unit

 

[87015]

Must be more than that (a lot more) ? 500 miles is barely half a days work for a unit

Not a Flirt on diesel it’ll be needing a drink before then!!

 

[LAX54]

It will indeed need a drink, mid shift, sort of a PNB but assume that will be part of the diagram, between workings a quick nip into the fuelling point for a quick top up -)

 

[eastdyke]

Must be more than that (a lot more) ? 500 miles is barely half a days work for a unit

For the Hitachi 385s it was 2000 miles fault free running for acceptance.
Not sure if the requirement for the FLIRT bi-modes is 2000 total, in each mode or some other figure.

 

[samuelmorris]

For the Hitachi 385s it was 2000 miles fault free running for acceptance.
Not sure if the requirement for the FLIRT bi-modes is 2000 total, in each mode or some other figure.

Every unit though, or just the first? From my recollection the first unit is given a more stringent target as it's assumed that is sufficient to demonstrate the units are sufficiently reliable, the 500 miles for subsequent units simply to prove they don't have any major unit-specific defects out of the box, rather than waste energy / fuel running 2000 miles of testing for each unit, which rapidly adds up to a vast amount of mileage on big fleets.