absolutelymilk
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Yep, confirmed by Richard Clinnick on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Clinnick1/status/1002065858947055618
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Thameslink/ Class 700 Progress
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As an update to this, I am not sure but over the weekend it was stated first class is not in operation on ANY trains at the moment. Might be worth checking if that's still the case in the week.
That would mean the front of a 700 or first class on 365s and 387s.
Really?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/183071615670899?view=permalink&id=194341821210545 Is this it? Might need to be member of Facebook group to view,I don’t know . It’s a long post by mp that mentions 1st class declassified on fast/semi fast TL services.
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Cricketer8for9
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Not quite MP, just candidate. Whether this rather good post actually gets the councillor national votes depends on whether or the voters decide to punish the Conservatives (as incumbents) for the debacle.
I don't know about this week, but for bank holiday weekend when there was the real emergency timetable first was declassified on everything.
This weekend looks set to have a similar timetable, so maybe it will apply again.
In reality, I think RPOs/Hosts are showing an awful lot of discretion right now. Right down to allowing people to travel the wrong way to get services back when there's a sufficiently long gap in service (such as people at WGC being allowed to travel to Stevenage to get a faster King's Cross train, or to Finsbury Park/KGX to go north). I would advise anyone to get their ticket endorsed to be on the safe side though!
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I’ve not heard good things about Worthing, this does nothing to alter my perception!
Well the first train was seen in west worthing sidings.
I thought that was a freight hopper for a second!
D365
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Arguably that’s the original Thameslink livery.
Class455
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Damn what unit was that?!
Oh wow kool
Islineclear3_1
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That's gonna be out of service for a while. Looks like a new unit too
They should never have pulled down the shed...
Still, a lot brighter than the current livery ...
It's left the siding and headed north and made the beeb. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-en...ti-thugs-vandalise-17m-govia-thameslink-train
Diversionary route for the Littlehampton services
BRblue
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That's not what I've been told... but I don't know if said information is in the public domain so I won't say anything else.
tsr
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Perhaps the best short answer is that the Class 700 stop markers are to ensure stations are marked on routes where they are likely to go at some point.
Historically, it has been known for stop markers to exist in all sorts of places where they have been rarely needed.
Historically, it has been known for stop markers to exist in all sorts of places where they have been rarely needed.
Perhaps the most recent example I can think of on the forum is VT (Voyager Train) stop boards at Manchester Victoria which must have been used for a couple of weeks in 2007. It's now 2018 and they are still there.
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Now that things have settled down a bit, are the 700s rammed in peak time, i.e. was the high-density seating necessary or are people still arguing that there should have been wider seats?
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Things haven’t ‘settled down’ much at all though, big chunks of the timetable aren’t running yet...
Roger Ford's Informed Sources column has this to say:
"At GTR the 115th and final Class 700 has been delivered. However, the Miles per Technical Incident (MTIN) has been falling back for the last three reporting periods. This is concerning, given the increased potential impact of a failure on the already chaotic GTR timetable.
While I predicted low initial reliability, the slow rates of improvement among all the new fleets is starting to disappoint even my low expectations. None of the new trains can yet match the MTIN MAA of the best Pacer fleet."
"At GTR the 115th and final Class 700 has been delivered. However, the Miles per Technical Incident (MTIN) has been falling back for the last three reporting periods. This is concerning, given the increased potential impact of a failure on the already chaotic GTR timetable.
While I predicted low initial reliability, the slow rates of improvement among all the new fleets is starting to disappoint even my low expectations. None of the new trains can yet match the MTIN MAA of the best Pacer fleet."
bramling
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On the GN people just want the old timetable back complete with the old trains!
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