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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

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trainmania100 said:
Cheers nice photos, I got 013 being delivered, but someone told me 003 had been delivered too, i know it's been around a while I just didn't think it had been delivered
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Ah whoops, that'll teach me to skim read! Not my photos unfortunately, and putting the right number into flickr, I can only find pics of it at Litchurch lane over the summer and no delivery moves. It might be at Worksop then as the drags down to SW metals tend to be well documented!
 
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Seems to be another unit heading south today, does anyone know which ?
Also does anyone know when 701003 was delivered? Some gent advised me it was in a recent magazine but I can't find any record of a move on gen groups...

Today: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train/?c=H01690&d=13/01/2021
Tops list reporting 66704/724.
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There were references by you to 701003 being in Wimbledon 28th June, but I think it may have been an assumption, reading it in more detail...
 
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Also 701017 was moved to Worksop yard some time ago, presumably still there, not sure what's happening with it at the moment.
 
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WWTownEnth said:
Thank you.

This is two deliveries in a week, which is a significant pick up in pace. Can we now expect weekly deliveries in future? Even at that rate it will take nearly eleven months to deliver all remaining 10 car units.
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I've lost track of how many have been delivered, but if it's 12, that leaves 48 units. Two per week is 24 weeks, ie just under six months.

Seems feasible to me that the entire fleet of 5 and 10 car units will be delivered thus year.
 
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swt_passenger said:
003 was pictured at Derby very early on so I guess it must exist...
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Possibly at Old Dalby then?

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I've lost track of how many have been delivered, but if it's 12, that leaves 48 units. Two per week is 24 weeks, ie just under six months.

Seems feasible to me that the entire fleet of 5 and 10 car units will be delivered thus year.
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More a case of catching up on delivery of units finished a while ago, 1x 10car a week is more realistic sustainable rate.
 
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004 has been released from Wimbledon depot then, saw it tonight (18th) on 5Q52, heading towards Basingstoke, having come from Eastleigh and turned round at woking. Not sure what day it was released from wim, but another unit (not sure which) went up to wim as 5Q60 today, and stayed there. Assume that was its replacement?
 
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Are the 701s out in traffic then? Or still in driver training, when you say 'released from Wimbledon'?
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004 is the one unit that was delivered straight to Wimbledon for depot familiarisation, so by released I mean they've taken it to start doing some fault free mileage, and presumably replaced it with a unit that has already completed it?
 
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www.bbc.co.uk

New £1bn fleet of South Western Railway trains delayed

Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris says the 90 trains are not expected in service until early summer.
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A new £1bn fleet of South Western Railway trains faces a further delay.
Rail minster Chris Heaton-Harris said the 90 Arterio trains, originally due to start running in 2019, were now not expected to be in service until early summer.

The current SWR fleets will be sent to work on the Southeastern Railway when the new trains come in.
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Domh245 said:
Aterio is the branding that SWR have decided to use for the 701s
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What an awful name... it feels dull and corporate. Pretty fitting with the rest of the SWR brand if I'm honest.

They could have just told the public they were called Aventras; that would have been a lot better...
 
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What an awful name... it feels dull and corporate. Pretty fitting with the rest of the SWR brand if I'm honest.

They could have just told the public they were called Aventras; that would have been a lot better...
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Fully agreed that it's an utterly stupid & pointless name! There's a couple of videos and a short bit about the rationale behind the name on this page
 
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Dstock7080 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

New £1bn fleet of South Western Railway trains delayed

Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris says the 90 trains are not expected in service until early summer.
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No surprise there. Still a way to go before they equal the delays to the 710 and 720!

py_megapixel said:
What an awful name... it feels dull and corporate. Pretty fitting with the rest of the SWR brand if I'm honest.

They could have just told the public they were called Aventras; that would have been a lot better...
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But surely no more stupid than the whole range of stupid names that TOCs have adopted for new stock recently.
 
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But surely no more stupid than the whole range of stupid names that TOCs have adopted for new stock recently.
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Such as what?

The only real name that's been adopted has been 'Azuma' by VTEC and later LNER - surely you can see how that conveys the sense of speed and futurism that underpins that brand, better than "Aterio" markets a fleet of commuter trains?

I guess there's also "Inter7city", but that's not so much a brand for a class of train - rather the network as a whole.
 
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Such as what?

The only real name that's been adopted has been 'Azuma' by VTEC and later LNER - surely you can see how that conveys the sense of speed and futurism that underpins that brand, better than "Aterio" markets a fleet of commuter trains?

I guess there's also "Inter7city", but that's not so much a brand for a class of train - rather the network as a whole.
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Paragon
Nova 1
Nova 2
Nova 3
Aurora
Castle

Azuma is quite a silly name.
 
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py_megapixel said:
That doesn't bother me so much because it has an obvious origin - a former name of the main station they serve.


I'll be honest, I'd forgotten about that. The Nova naming scheme is a bit stupid and to this day I can't remember which is which.


What's that the name of?
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East Midlands' AT300s, the class 804 810
 
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