An update, Voith, Cummings, Alstom and Bombardier are now working together to sort the 180's out for Hull trains.
All spotted at Crofton this week.
The debacle hopefully is being sorted or at least being worked on.
Some of the problem was that Alstom were not communicating with Bombardier, eg, letting them have the wiring diagrams and plans for the layout of the systems, a joke eh?
113 came out in service recently as we all know and is performing well, albeit on 4 engines, the 5th having a turbo fault which made it look like a steam train, really smart livery though.
111 is working well on 4 engines but is full of gremlins in the TMS system, this tells the driver that there are things wrong when infact all is well.
Nothing safety orientated just stuff like bogs out of order and junk like that.
110 is running on 3 engines, just. After its altercation with the infrastructure it is in dire need of some tlc.
109 is doing well after its poor month in April, two sucides I hear, very sad. I hear it had some tlc recently.
107 is sitting in crofton in a sad state aparently.
Rumours of 114 and 104 heading to HT are circulating.
There is also a proposal lodged at the ORR for an 8th service both ways with Hull trains, anyone know anything about that one?
I do hear from the staff that things are looking up and that the full overhaul of the 180's is about to begin in earnest.
Fingers crossed..
Its was sad to see the 222's go, they wont be back permanently but there are rumours again circulating of EMT 222's being hired in at weekends to allow work to continue on the 180's.
It is said that when the 180's work (rarely), they are belting units and should be a fairly good train, until the next stock cascade.
Pacer units for HT maybe.
Who knows.
Maybe if the damn goverment actually travelled on a train rather than in a limo, they might realise that some investment is needed now to prevent this sort of thing happeing to a really decent company again in the future.
