Future Southeastern Class 395 order?

[jopsuk]

How about the Class 373 North of London sets? Shorten them maybe and reinstate the third rail equipment :P

I hope that tongue is firmly in cheek- the power cars and non-passenger accommodation take up about 33m in each half train! you'd have enough platform length for 9 (possibly 10) 18.7m long carriages. Each with a single door.

 

[RobShipway]

Not sure where you would get the MK3's coaches but could you not use those with either a class 73 or class 92?

 

[AM9]

Not sure where you would get the MK3's coaches but could you not use those with either a class 73 or class 92?

You could always use the redundant 442 trailer cars!

I claim my £5 for the first mention of 442s in this thread.

 

[Kentish Paul]

You could always use the redundant 442 trailer cars!

I claim my £5 for the first mention of 442s in this thread.

:roll: And I thought this thread was half way serious.:cry:

 

[AM9]

:roll: And I thought this thread was half way serious.:cry:

It was until somebody suggested using MKIIIs.

 

[Haydn1971]

Pacers with the engines removed hooked up to Class 91's running at 140mph ! Sorted !

 

[jopsuk]

quite. Not sure where the idea of using mark 3s behind 90mph locos on a high speed line came from, perhaps Robbies can explain?

 

[RobShipway]

quite. Not sure where the idea of using mark 3s behind 90mph locos on a high speed line came from, perhaps Robbies can explain?

As someone said in a previous posting 'Humour via a forum post is often missed'.

 

[D365]

As someone said in a previous posting 'Humour via a forum post is often missed'.

The humour of a Class 442 proposal is never missed

 

[AM9]

The humour of a Class 442 proposal is never missed

Except by those who can't live with the thought of their impending demise.

 

[BananaRepublic]

How about the Class 373 North of London sets? Shorten them maybe and reinstate the third rail equipment :P

Aren't they being scrapped?



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The extra trains to my mind should be AT300's as that is what the class 395's are in fact with 20M carriages.

The Class 395's are AT300's, as are the Class 800/801's SET's and the new, as yet unclassified FGW order for additional SET's.
20m commuter config vehicles are required, so it'd be more Class 395's, or train lengthening with an order for extra vehicles.

However, I presume that the AT300 would have to be supplied from Japan as the Hitachi factory here would be at capacity building both the Class 800 and the Scottish AT200 trains.

Correct. The order for what is confusingly being called the AT300's (they are all AT300's), or rather just another slightly different version of the SET, will indeed involve trains being built in Japan, due to the required delivery timing clashing with the production runs you mention.
Had the requirement been for delivery around 2020+, they would almost certainly been built at Newton Aycliffe.