Unlikely, they don't all have replacements lined up. What's the rush?Maybe if the lockdown goes on for a while and there is a decline in rail travel after they can all be sent to the scrappers too?
Woops , sorry I was refering to the ex GER and FLIRT area and should have made that clear.Not so fast! There are still a fair few locos hauling coaches around in various parts of the country (or would be were if it not for lock-down), including London Marylebone - Birmingham Snow Hill, Liverpool - Scarborough, and possibly others - eg the Fife circulars. And likely to be for quite a while.
Woops , sorry I was refering to the ex GER and FLIRT area and should have made that clear.
I hear 90005 was about today but I don't know when and on what.
It's been accepted into traffic along with 106.StanEx 105 seen out on test today.
Where abouts? Possibly driver training?StanEx 105 seen out on test today.
Almost all driver training is suspended. 745/1s operate alongside their sister 745s on the Norwich-Liverpool St route.Where abouts? Possibly driver training?
It's been accepted into traffic along with 106.
It’s supposed to have already been accepted.
thanks for confirming109 was out and about today
I wouldn't thought so, they run in both directions not round a loopAre they testing running this way to see how the pantographs fare in this directon for example.
Wow, so you can't select forward or rear pan from your driving cab? What's best or most common, front or rear pan raised? FWIW, I would have thought that there's enough distance between them to use both, but that might cause problems at neutral sections.Bow isn't too bad but Forest Gate on the UM is particularly tight if getting stopped beneath the Goblin bridge. Unfortunately as drivers we cannot simply swap pantographs over without tech help.
It's always the back one. To swap them over means going into the maintenance menu which can only be accessed with a technicians PIN or if talked through it over the phone. Not sure if anybody has had the embarrassment of doing the latter yetWow, so you can't select forward or rear pan from your driving cab? What's best or most common, front or rear pan raised? FWIW, I would have thought that there's enough distance between them to use both, but that might cause problems at neutral sections.
TIA, DC
Totally agree but who are we to argue? I'm sure as the incidents & delay minutes rise there will be a change of heart in making this simple straightforward task a drivers decision as it should be. The rear pan could then be resellected once out of the affected area on occasions where there was no technical issue with the rear pan in the first place.That seems quite dumb compared with the status quo of units in the UK some 15 years ago, where Class 390s can select them with a rotary switch in the cab and simply press "PAN UP" again.
You & me both. Operation of the pans has been wholly our responsibility until now so what's changed & why is it such a big deal? Nobody seems to understand why.In the Dutch NS FLIRT we can simply block a pantograph from rising, and the train will automatically raise the other one instead.
Seems weird to me that the drivers can't do anything to select the pantograph.
Saturday 11th saw three of the five passenger sets formed of 745/1 Stansted units. Sets in service were: 002, 005, 105, 106, 107. Also sets 001 and 109 were out on test.
Today (Tuesday 14th), Sets in service were: 002, 007, 009, 010, 107. Out on test were 001, 106 and 109. 745001 operated Norwich - Liverpool Street - Stansted - Ely, then returning by the same route. Have these been to Ely before?
I am puzzled. 106 was in service on Saturday 11/04/2020 but three days later it was on test. Had it been naughty on Saturday or had someone forgotten to test it ?.Saturday 11th saw three of the five passenger sets formed of 745/1 Stansted units. Sets in service were: 002, 005, 105, 106, 107. Also sets 001 and 109 were out on test.
Today (Tuesday 14th), Sets in service were: 002, 007, 009, 010, 107. Out on test were 001, 106 and 109. 745001 operated Norwich - Liverpool Street - Stansted - Ely, then returning by the same route. Have these been to Ely before?