61653 HTAFC
Veteran Member
Just to summarise, am I right in my understanding that:
The vehicles with the most serious damage are the leading vehicle of the SWR unit; and both vehicles of the trailing GWR unit?
If so, and if we assume for the sake of argument that both operators would actually need any lost vehicles to be replaced, what would be the best way of doing so?
GWR would need an additional 2-car 158, that's fairly simple to do on paper, as a number of units will be freed up from TfW and EMR in the not-too-distant future.
SWR on the other hand, replacing the lost vehicle requires another unit (one of those freed up from TfW/EMR as above) to be split- leaving the owners with an orphan car without a home. Given the age of the 158s, having an additional spare isn't necessarily a bad thing though. One saving grace is that the damaged unit is a 159/1 with the standard 350hp engines, rather than one of the originals with the 400hp ones.
The vehicles with the most serious damage are the leading vehicle of the SWR unit; and both vehicles of the trailing GWR unit?
If so, and if we assume for the sake of argument that both operators would actually need any lost vehicles to be replaced, what would be the best way of doing so?
GWR would need an additional 2-car 158, that's fairly simple to do on paper, as a number of units will be freed up from TfW and EMR in the not-too-distant future.
SWR on the other hand, replacing the lost vehicle requires another unit (one of those freed up from TfW/EMR as above) to be split- leaving the owners with an orphan car without a home. Given the age of the 158s, having an additional spare isn't necessarily a bad thing though. One saving grace is that the damaged unit is a 159/1 with the standard 350hp engines, rather than one of the originals with the 400hp ones.