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    Multiple Working

    Coundn't? Or weren't allowed to? (I appreciate older designs couldn't, because they had jackshaft drive)
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    I'm surprised the second unit can be towed - whether coupled to the first oine or otherwise. From the photos and video, the misalignment between the third and fourth carriages (the two driving ends of the units) suggests damage to the couplings between them, and possibly other damage to the cab...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    No services to Windsor at all over the long weekend. RRBs in use. 1711631153 There are other runs (training, mileage accumulation, don't know) - a 701 on a 5Q-- headcode has just arrived at Waterloo
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    Crewe to London Terminals, reasonable routes??

    Surely not Stratford on Avon, as any Crewe - London journey would require doublinmg back from Wilmcote
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    Multiple Working

    Interesting, because an 09 has a max speed of 27. I knoiw these were being hauled dead, but could an 08 run under power without coupling rods (it would effectively have an A-1-A wheel arranagement if both traction motors were working).
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Whatever that means, Instantly halving the fleet's MTIN figure........... [EDIT 5U93 just left Wimbledon depot at 1153, so it looks like the problem has been fixed. (is this the unit that was to have done 2U91, or a replacement? - RTT is being coy again)]
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    Apparently not - 043 on again today, and no services to Windsor over the Easter long weeknd
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Don't CAF have a factory at Newport?
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    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    Discussion is about how GM might deal with similar issues, learning from London's experience
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    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    I had a boundary Z6 return to Luton Airport Parkway (bought at West Hampstead), using my Over-60 Oyster to get to the boundary. Returned to St Pancras on an EMR 360 and was stopped at the barriers and told it wasn't valid.
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    Pilot Engines

    Relatively small driving wheels (and therefore low gearing), and built for high tractive effort at low speed, suggests she might have had pretty good acceleration, if only at very low speeds.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Did they run both units together? In which case the front one may not have been under power. If it can get to Barrow Docks, could it be shipped out?
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    Not necessarily. As far as I am aware those expensive replacements have only had one failure in traffic so far. (admittedly the numerator of the "MTIN" ratio is also quite small)
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    Multiple Working

    It used to be a frequent sight on the "Joint" line to see freight trains with an 08 "dead in train" in the formation, on its way to or from Doncaster Works for overhaul. They always had their coupling rods removed - I assume this allowed them to be towed at higher speeds than was permitted under...
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    Multiple Working

    It was for a similar reason that hydraulic classes 113 and 127 were given their own coupling code, although their controls had be designed to be compatible with "blue square" doesel mechanical units (all other classes from 100 to 124). There were too many incidents of a driver forgetting that he...
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    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    My Over-60 Oyster card was rejected at the EMT ticket gate at St Pancras, (even though there was a reader) so I had to "seek assistance". It was then i was told it was only valid on Thameslink. 1711555078 It shouldn't do. NR fares are still available on all Overground and Elizabeth Line...
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    Northern issue - train becoming uncoupled near Hull

    Then why say a "coach" has become uncoupled?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    RTT says it did - 701037 did the honours (at least, RTT shows it operated 2U91 and 2U92, and that 2U93 left Waterloo from the same platform 2U92 arrived at)
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    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    Only the diesel ones. The electric ones couldn't get out of Strathclyde until recently.
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    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    I don't think that has ever been achieved with special local liveries. For example, as far as I am aware, only one DMU was ever painted in SYPTE livery, but it was not restricted to the Don Valley line (Sheffield / Doncaster) the only service that lay entirely within the PTE's area. Indeed, it...

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