Trainfan061193
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Does anyone have any knowledge of recent updates to the cascade plan that GWR have got in place? Can anyone also confirm if Newbury electrification will play a part in it? Many thanks
Does anyone have any knowledge of recent updates to the cascade plan that GWR have got in place? Can anyone also confirm if Newbury electrification will play a part in it? Many thanks
Anyone know the depot allocation for Exeter? @PHILIPE has already stated that the two 150/1's are off to Northern so presumably that leaves GWR with just the only 2 Class 150/0's, and a load of Class 150/2's. Does anyone know how many of those 150/2's will be stationed at the Exeter TMD and if any 158's will be there and if so how many?
All the 150/2s are now allocated to Exeter, 158s in the future
So St Philips Marsh is all Class 16x and some Class 158's. Do you know how many Class 150/2's GWR have? Wiki says 20 although as we all know the Wiki isn't always right.
What Devon services will the Turbos work don't forget there are clearance issues that need to be taken into account.At present, Exeter have all the 143s, the last 5 remaining 153s and all the 150/2s. According to Clarence Yard, there will be Turbos also running the Devon Metro services in the future once the 769s have started entering service.
At present, Exeter have all the 143s, the last 5 remaining 153s and all the 150/2s. According to Clarence Yard, there will be Turbos also running the Devon Metro services in the future once the 769s have started entering service.
Not for now no. It shall be interesting to see Turbos running from Exmouth to Paignton! The Barny branch should still have 158s.So no Class 158’s for Exeter then just yet. I didn’t know that the Turbos are coming down this way.
Not for now no. It shall be interesting to see Turbos running from Exmouth to Paignton! The Barny branch should still have 158s.
Patience is called for. Gauging of 165/166 has had to be checked everywhere they don’t already run, eg as far as Portsmouth and Brighton, and is still ongoing. I don’t think there’s anything extra special about Devon and Cornwall, it just wasn’t the first priority, indeed it can be seen to be “batch 8 of 8”.Wasn't there some gauging issues for the turbo in devon and cornwall area one of the issues was the steps?
Patience is called for. Gauging of 165/166 has had to be checked everywhere they don’t already run, eg as far as Portsmouth and Brighton, and is still ongoing. I don’t think there’s anything extra special about Devon and Cornwall, it just wasn’t the first priority, indeed it can be seen to be “batch 8 of 8”.
The Sept 2018 enhancements delivery plan has the routes west of Plymouth being down as CP6 work, which suggests the main issue is it isn’t planned to be started yet...
The steps are one issue to be overcome, but many (eventually all?) of the units have been modified by raising the overall height using some sort of packing or shims between bogie and body. It was suggested in an earlier discussion that this actually fixed quite a few problem platforms.You clearly know more than me on this topic. Are the Class 165 and 166's actually excessively wide or is it just the steps that can cause issues, if so how wide are they?
The 165/6 are not excessively wide in the body. The step boards were about 50mm lower than a 150 and that usually caused the main issues. NSE worked to a much tighter train-platform interface standard than RR so the clearance software that NR now uses picks up a lot of potential fouls when vehicle throw is taken into account.
GWR sorted this issue out by raising the height of the body by 25mm and most of the issues have just disappeared. However, because NR insists on absolute gauging, the remaining platform issues are mainly where there should have been some remedial work anyway, for all classes.
Yaw dampers have been known to cause the odd problem by being foul of lineside equipment and some lineside signs have had to be moved, particularly on ex SR routes, whose engineers tend to be a bit more risk averse than their ex WR counterparts.
Following Portsmouth, certificates giving clearance down as far as Plymouth are expected to be issued sometime in January. It won’t be unlimited clearance as there are always a few issues to sort out that then get amended on subsequent versions of the clearance certificates. That’s roughly how the system works these days.
Do you know of how much clearance between the train and an object, be it a sign post or platform, is required before a Class is granted unlimited clearance?
Could somebody clarify if 153361 has left GWR yet?
This is/would have been my final GWR dogbox that I require for haulage.
No. Not yet
The last 2 GWR 150/1 sub-classes have cascaded North today.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O70825/2019/01/02/advanced
I cod believe that.Not really sad to see them go, 150/2 seems far batter.
How long are the 5 remaining 153’s due to stay at GWR? Does it depend on the GTi HST programme?