701 036 has done one day only, back on 7th March.
Thanks Peter
This wouldn't end the stalemate - when TfL take over other routes, any staff who TUPE over will retain their pre-existing contract, unless they are 'incentivised' to sign a new one.
As l understand it the 701s have a different cab to other members of the Aventura family. As such how "similar" they are is an interesting question.
I believe the degraded dispatch is permanent and is agreed for full role out? as their was previously dates as to when degraded dispatch would end. Ive been told its now got no end date and is permanent? Again this could be wrong
I refer you to post 8642
Some interesting stuff there; is there actually some suggestion somewhere that guards are to be expected to key into a door panel if a platform starting signal is displaying danger, merely to prevent their driver from attempting dispatch? That would be, to put it mildly, a rather irregular way of going about things!
Wow what a massive waste of time the entire DCO programme was then (if this is true)
guard has to key on at every station anyway and check the platform
Which staff do you mean? All the SWR drivers trained on the 701s are closing the doors wherever and whenever the technology currently allows.
A vast amount of someone's money has been squandered on building this large fleet of apparently useless trains, and parking and moving them around the country for years on end. So far the whole lot has carried a handful of passengers at times which pointlessly duplicate existing services.
I think they're great trains and a huge step forward but then again they can't be a huge step forward until they actually step outside of the what seems like endless sidings these trains are stored at
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Feltham only has 10 sidings and 10 trains leave in the morning peak. While it might be possible to rearrange diagrams to start elsewhere leaving them stabled at Feltham requires special trips for maintenance whereas trains in regular service will naturally cycle to maintenance points. I wouldn't expect them to stay at Feltham until they are working regular diagrams on the Windsor line.
Annoyingly, the soundbound drag - 5Q75 - was only recorded as cancelled (on RTT) two hours after itts booked arrival into Marchwood.701029
Realtime Trains | 5Q78 1319 Marchwood M.O.D. to Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs | 18/04/2024
Real-time train running information for 5Q78 1319 departure from Marchwood M.O.D. to Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs on 18/04/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
Indeed its farcical. Given SE took on the the 707's and got their drivers trained up without issue I would just transfer the 701 fleet to SE and revoke the DCO agreement with ASLEF and they can have their driver and guard railway on the old rates.
And then what does SWR do? All these passengers have been promised these new trains since the start of the franchise. It's a ridiculous argument to make
That rather assumes that ASLEF members at Southeastern would assist in screwing their SWR counterparts over....
Could it perhaps have something to do with the fact they had been in service previously?
Surely that only means additional screens showing same images, not additional cameras.
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As an Epsom resident, we had our MPs regular updated emailed yesterday. One of the issues he addressess is overcrowding on the Waterloo bound services, particularly from Worcester Park, explaining that he is pushng for more services but stock shortage prevents this until the 701 introduction. He writes:
Indeed - I should imagine SWR shared training packages/material with SE to enable them to revise it to make any adjustments for SE’s own policies. This in itself would save a huge amount of time vs. SE having to write their own training plan for the 707s from scratch!
Ahhh Failing Grayling?
Shouldn't they have done that five years ago?
Not so sure it'd be a quick process to get monitors moved as wouldn't that be a NR responsibility, presumably in conjunction with SWR to ensure they are in a useable position? Hopefully someone with actual industry knowledge will be along to enlighten us!