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Just confirmed
Realtime Trains | 2030 London Waterloo to London Waterloo | 13/10/2023
Real-time train running information for 2030 departure from London Waterloo to London Waterloo on 13/10/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
If it does, at 6 years, it will be beaten later this year by 68+Mk5 at TPE, with 4 and a bit years.
Class 68 of course would not count, only MK5A.
What is the significance of this working sorry? It goes onto form another loop, and then a Strawberry Hill terminator, so it can’t be the final 707 service?Just confirmed
Realtime Trains | 2030 London Waterloo to London Waterloo | 13/10/2023
Real-time train running information for 2030 departure from London Waterloo to London Waterloo on 13/10/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
After 2O63 they form 5Y92 to Wimbledon Depot. Changes haven't been uploaded yet
GWR's 769/9s (which differed from other 769s in retaining DC capability) managed zero years.
But we also know very well from the franchise ITT that it was the DfT that moved the goalposts for dwell times and they wanted the 707s replacing.
Do the 707s use the same "slower" Pneumatic door openings like the 450/350/360s? I remember chatting to the Guard on a train to Feltham, and he said he preffered the 458s for that reason as they had much quicker (electric?) mechanisms. Still, I never felt they were much slower than the 458s, and more importantly they were wider than the 455s, so never 100% understood why all the trains were being replaced.
No. They have very fast sliding doors. The Desiro Cities (700, 707, 717) are very different inside from the older Desiros.
Because the new franchisee promised to replace the recently-retractioned 455s, the recently acquired 456s, the recentky rebuilt and lengthened 458s and the brand new 707s, with a standard fleet of shiny new trains by 2019.
