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As a local to SWR (like I know you are yourself) I’m grateful for them not doing so, as this would no doubt mean at least another three years before the knackered 455s finally begin to be replaced, and the 707s really will have to go to SE at some point. If the 701s are not in service by three years I will retract this statement humbly with good will, but I don’t think it’ll seriously be three more years.I’m astonished that SWR have not taken a leaf out of ÖBB’s book and terminated the contract for the ex-Bombardier trains due to non-delivery and gone to Siemens instead.
And this is what, the six-hundred-and-forty-eighth time this same (speculative) idea has now raised its head? It must be the most commonly suggested idea on the forum, that and unfeasible Meridians on Liverpool Norwich.Those 350/2s which WMR don't want could presumably be modded to 350/1 or 450 capability for running on 750V DC. I imagine Alstom must be near to the end of class 730 build now, so it is commissioning them and getting them into service - within a year ?.
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