dilbertphil
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Pretty sure there’s a set tucked away in Crewe depot.
There's not. All the sets are in the old Eurostar shed opposite Longsight.
Pretty sure there’s a set tucked away in Crewe depot.
4 on the Eurostar depot and set 5 on Lonsight (Eurostar or MID Manchester international depot,) can only hold 4. Out Sunday between Stafford and Warrington. Them Carlisle Thursday morning and Bletchley Friday morning.68028 planned to go light engine to MID Friday as well.There's not. All the sets are in the old Eurostar shed opposite Longsight.
There's not. All the sets are in the old Eurostar shed opposite Longsight.
Well there seemed to be a 68 in TPE livery in one of the roads beside a wall last night (Friday) and it looked like it was coupled to MK5's?
Thanks for the photos and videos, really appreciate your updates, Tam!And one photo, also from today. This is the 'other' unit, the one not in the videos.
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Liverpool to Scarborough from December 9th (6 trains each way per day to begin - 2 sets out).
Then Man air to Middlesbrough from January ish.
Never was the plan - the route is all-electric so it's getting the new EMUs.I had hoped Glasgow/Edinburgh - Liverpool might see them
Indeed - Liverpool/Manchester to Glasgow/Edinburgh via the WCML will get 397s, and I'm almost certain that the 802s ordered for Liverpool-Newcastle (via the ECML) will go to Edinburgh too.Never was the plan - the route is all-electric so it's getting the new EMUs.
I think all three sets look good to be honest. TPE have sourced some attractive looking trains with a decent livery that suits them. The big buffers on the end of the Mk5 DTS take some getting used to, but other than that, they're all looking very promising. Look forward to seeing the 802/2 in TPE livery. I think that too will look the part.
I still think the need yellow ends along the lines of the Pendolinos, the black is too much. I hope they will be fitting out the 802s to the same spec as the other NOVAs. The DafT spec is garbage on what could probably be a very good 125/225 replacement.
The DFT haven't ordered the 802s so those units will receive whatever interiors TPE have asked for.
68020 and its Mk5A set was out last night doing high speed brake tests - 100mph to zero in emergency, full service, etc.
Managed to come to a full stop from 100mph in 800 metres on a full service brake application. Even shorter in emergency.
Is it really? At 100mph it’s moving at 44.7 metres per second.
Sounds pretty good from 100mph, and I’m sure there’s far more intelligent people who have formulas about deceleration rates who can verify what this rate is, and also compare it to other stock.
Not sure those figures are right, you would struggle to stop from 70mph in 0.4 seconds!16m/s^2 - so around 1.6 times gravity. Must be aa pretty exciting ride.
(Edit: on the other hand a car stopping from 70
mph per the Highway Code distance does about 65m/s^2)
Not sure those figures are right, you would struggle to stop from 70mph in 0.4 seconds!
Not sure those figures are right, you would struggle to stop from 70mph in 0.4 seconds!
16m/s^2 - so around 1.6 times gravity. Must be aa pretty exciting ride.
(Edit: on the other hand a car stopping from 70
mph per the Highway Code distance does about 65m/s^2)