The 458’s are the only ASDO stock at SWR that behave as such and this is due to it having a very basic system where each coach has to individually read the beacon before the doors will open. All Siemens’s stock at SWR will read the beacon at the start of the platform and release the number of doors the beacon has instructed, wherever the train happens stop.
See above.
This.
That seems really stupid. So it drives according to the track taking into account track speeds etc but can't work with a red signal?
OK, accepted. But the fact remains that if the train does stop in the wrong place, it is the train crew's responsibility to correct this before the doors are released.
I don’t think it even takes into account speeds, although I’d be pleasantly surprised if anyone has information to the contrary. My understanding is the driver accelerates the train as normal and then activates ABDO as the train approaches the next station.
A lot further from ATO than I originally thought. One of the main problems I thought would be the activation of the system, you wouldn't want to turn it on too late. A sudden drop like you mentioned certainly complicates things.
As far as I am aware the sole reason for proposing ABDO is to help where boarding/alighting a huge number of pax at once in very frequent traffic is critical, eg Surbiton - Waterloo!
A redesign with input from the ASLEF Company Council happened a while back.
As already explained all except the 458s have no toilet and with the 458s it's very unusual that both toilets in a unit are working (often neither are) and you can't walk between the units.
That's right. I also understand that the door of the universal toilet is of a poor design (isn't everything on the 458s?) and frequently fails, locking the toilet out of use.
You’re assuming that the toilets in the 701s are any more reliable than what there is now. After an initial burst of enthusiasm from SWR, they appear to have given up on them. Why is that mindset going to change, especially when there will be many more to maintain?
Why don't we wait and see what the 701s bring eh?
In my experience the toilets on the 458s are still more reliable now than in SWT days, especially latterly when the y were as good as permanently locked out of use.
If you ignore the water in the windows!
Internal cleaning every 30 days rather than every nine months for a start. You can see the colour of the floors now.
Trapped by their misunderstanding or the train’s fault?
A mixture, probably leaning towards fault rather than user.
Reported elsewhere as 701014
Hi Dibbo4025,
Feltham accepted first train and operational this week
Thanks. Anyone got any idea if the deliveries will now accelerate?
Well today's run from Litchurch was cancelled. Noted the headcode was to be 6Z24 on it though, rather than the usual 6X24. My initial guess at the reason for that was possibly 701002 coming back, as its brakes are already operational? I could be wrong.
So they are on their way to take another back up north?