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It is apprently the way that door sensors have been designed and any problems with the step mechinisims stop the door from working as a safety precaution.
This timetable change (back to a 30 minute Sunday service from 03/09/23) has been in place since the change in May, but I agree that as a major event and good weather combined this could have been arranged in a better way, and hopefully with a six car operation.
Concerning folding bikes (I am the owner of a Brompton) the official ruling is especially on most rail operators is that the bike should be covered up thus avoiding any other passengers catching themselves on potential sharp edges of said folding bike. I have only seen one folding bike on a bus...
The batteries can be fitted to any of the 53 units, so in effect any of the units can carry batteries.
An exercise to remove batteries from a 777 and refit them has already been conducted at Kirkdale depot.
Headbolt Lane is scheduled to open in 2023, so I would imagine things hopefully will...
The former 92 route now the 62 in Liverpool was lovingly referred to as the wall of death, because you went around and around and around.........
And the 68's known as the magical mystery tour as it goes practically everywhere........
Each unit is required to cover a minimum of 1,500 miles on test fault free before being signed over to Merseyrail, so covering the whole network would bring this mileage down.