Currently sat in car 1 of refurbished 156427+156402. The internal door to the second carriage is locked shut, and the emergency red handle doesn’t appear to open it either, as witnessed on boarding! Isn’t that breaching some sort of fire safety reg, it’ll make escaping this carriage a lot more difficult if needed!
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No, as long as all the doors are functional on your carriage. Bit odd. Have you told someone?
Is the next carriage locked out of use for some reason?
jonnyfan
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Those units look to be on the mid Cheshire line, so the method of work is to lock the rear carriage out when running a 4 carriage formation due to short platforms on the route.
No all the doors aren’t in use, the external door next to the locked internal door has a “not in use” sign over the buttons. No carriages locked out of use either! All seems a bit odd as we also just had to pull forwards at knutsford as we stopped short. Eventful!
The door from the first carriage to second carriage is locked.
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As of sometime recently, this is normal thanks to P2 at Ashley (and Hale, despite that never being a problem before...)
Dspatula
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I noticed 323225 had usb ports yesterday it's the first time I remember seeing a 323 with them or have others been done as well?
No, it's played manually by the guard. There's one which is something like "Can all passengers please have tickets and railcards..." and the more pleasant "To those passengers just joining the train, welcome aboard. Please can you have tickets..." that you mention. There's one about checking you have a valid Northern ticket too.
There's some delay message in there as well (under 15 mins, and over 15 mins with info on delay repay), but again, it has to be manually selected.
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08/09
5Q70 Allerton - Wolverton 323236
5Q36 Wolverton - Allerton 323223
STP 12/09 5Z56 0653 Wolverton - Heaton Caped
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K05023/2022-09-12/detailed
STP 13/09 5Z56 0859 Heaton - Wolverton Caped
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K05028/2022-09-13/detailed
5Q70 Allerton - Wolverton 323236
5Q36 Wolverton - Allerton 323223
STP 12/09 5Z56 0653 Wolverton - Heaton Caped
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K05023/2022-09-12/detailed
STP 13/09 5Z56 0859 Heaton - Wolverton Caped
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K05028/2022-09-13/detailed
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jonesy3001
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156401 was on this run, now in northern colours,
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156415 going the other way,
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jonesy3001
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See my post above.
jonesy3001
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401 is now in northern livery was out over the weekend on colnes, 415 is in crewe being painted into northern colours.
156418/419/422 are all in Northern livery but operating with EMR with EMR regional logos. HTH
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I didn’t realise Northern had started refitting 156s with ironing boards!
156485 with full ironing boards seen today.
156485 with full ironing boards seen today.
Sounds like a match made in heaven lol....
py_megapixel
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I think 156485 might be a one-off - an ex-Scotrail unit which had new seats installed before transferring. (All Scotrail 156s have ironing boards).
They haven't. The non-standard seats on ex-Scotrail 156s were replaced during refurb - no new conversions are being done.
Close, it was done by Northern during their refurb of the ex-Scotrail units.
Rick1984
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The last Northern 156 I was on had terrible legroom and the tray table banged off your knees! I'd much rather have an iron board
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py_megapixel
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Yes, I believe they are essentially the same things as on the Sprinters, but with that extra grey plastic moulding behind to make them fit properly on the slightly curved walls (and possibly hold some of the electrical bits).
Those look similar to the ones fitted to many modern buses. That makes sense given that those are proven in a transport environment.
They are exactly the same, been fitting them to buses for many years and the only fault that seemed to happen was the blue light would go out (but the unit would still be working).
TY.
diligentdave
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They're on the list to get moquette fitted.
But aren’t they at the bottom of it?
Indeed, but they're not replacing more 156 seats with the new-CAF type though which is what I meant by no more conversions.
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AFAIK, as with the rest of the 319s, whenever a sufficient number of 323s arrive from WMT.