Not to forget that making DC only units in DV isn't just as simple as putting a pan and transformer onto a train. You are required to rewrite the software. You'd also need to alter any other unit that it nwould interact with. From start to finish your looking about 12 months before it could be in service anyway. The AC tractioning of the 455's and extended testing or the 458/5 convertion is an indication of just how much work work it takes.
No opinions on my part, only facts. But I don't think we can agree on that simple point, especially with your negitive viewpoint of anything changing.
Once again from you, straw man. I don't have a "negitive" (negative, actually) view of "anything changing", I've never said that. Where change is implemented I expect it to produce benefits, and as far as possible not introduce disbenefits. Bolting a single-point failure (double-track core) on the end of a reasonably reasonably resilient mainly 4-track railway from London to Huntingdon (six tracks Holloway to Stevenage if you include Hertford), having a timetable vulnerable to importing delays off other regions, and sticking a half-hourly service with 3 vastly different stopping patterns on a double-track railway containing 8 stations are all serious performance risks. I wouldn't mind so much if there appeared to be anything approaching meaningful mitigation of these and other issues, but there isn't. "It will work" just doesn't reassure.
But, we digress, as anything that doesn't agree with your view of the world is "negative", or "uninformed", or "wrong", or "an error", or "guesswork", or "an assumption", or "a joke".
Perhaps then you should go place your printed information in the correct thread and we can discuss it there? We have derailed this thread long enough.
I just did. In actual fact it is in the correct thread, as before you launched into your usual defensive rant in favour of your beloved Thameslink Programme, the issue was about when and what rolling stock might be released for c2c. Given the upcoming rolling stock changes on GTR, what happens there is potentially relevant to c2c.
Meanwhile, as it happens, earlier today with a couple of minutes to spare whilst passing through my local GTR station, out of curiosity I had a look round and quickly found basically the same information in both poster and leaflet form, so it's not particularly hard to come by.
Moving back slightly to topic, does anyone know if anything has been proposed for the GTR 317s and 321s when they leave GTR? The assumption seems to be Greater Anglia, but has this been officially proposed or confirmed anywhere? My feeling is they wouldn't be available in time to benefit c2c though, depending on when their new units emerge.