Have just watched a Geoff Marshall video on You Tube re the new Class 555 units.He said that one of the old ones IS going to Beamish Museum.
I saw that! Plus the one that is going to Stevensons!
Oh yes I saw that! I visited on Saturday and did see the new stock twice but didn’t ride unfortunately.
It’s on my to-do list but it’s a time consuming job as it involves typing out over 40 diagrams in full so it’ll have to wait a few days until I have more time. In the meantime I’ve added a note to clarify that T121 is not Metrocar worked on weekends anymore.
I'd say 45 is more likely as it's been robbed for various parts. 46 has actually had bits put back on and replaced as recently as March.
Just to say thank you for keeping us informed as to what is currently a rapid changing situation. Certainly this occasional user of the Metro thoroughly appreciates the updates.
When was that last in use? Sure it was really recent 4016.
Only a couple of weeks ago - to the extent that it wasn't marked internally as stopped. It's significantly easier to shift an in-tact unit surplus to requirements than one with various pieces of equipment missing complicating such matters.
The very first post on this thread details all withdrawn units.
thanks
doubt it, can’t see them chancing a single car around the coast, only place a single car normally runs is on a brake test up to the airport and turned on the Y.
I believe earlier cars were mainly those stopped awaiting routine maintenance/replacement parts that were unavailable and thus they became parts donors for other cars. More recently there was a number of cars that picked up flats over the autumn period, and would've required new sets of tyres due to the existing ones being at the size limit.
It seems like they are scrapping these Metros faster than they are introducing the new ones into service.
Hopefully the frequency doesn’t drop to 15 minutes…
There's still plenty of spare 599s each day, the scrappings of last year in particular meant a lot of spare parts could be salvaged to reinstate loads of long term out of use cars.
Fleet availability of 599s isn't really much different (in fact on some days, it's better) than its been in previous months as several units have returned to service in recent months after being out of use long term. As @Tramfan says this is down to the amount of spare parts made available from scrapped sets.
Great to hear! Bring on the new sets I say, and bring back the 10 minute headways (5 in the core) as soon as possible!
Would be great to have a 10 minute frequency. I would love to see more diagrams to be honest. It would benefit the general public and actual train fans for having more metros to spot.
Remember one new train is equal to two old trains.
I forgot about that!