Reason is I still don't think swr have accepted the units yet.
GBRf are delivering and commissioning the units. Once the units have been commissioned they will pass to SWR for operation. Looks like good work for the FOC. Not only are they delivering them from the factory, but also tripping them for mods at Widnes, doing the mileage accumulation runs and the merry go round between Worksop and Derby. I expect GBRf are hoping these things never get accepted into traffic!
701 ramps have appeared at nearly all ‘metro’ platforms for some months now. (For some reason this has even included a few platforms without step-free access..)
Thanks, only just noticed it yesterday
Probably for in the rare event of detraining.
Yesterday showing as 701029, don't know about today's.
Thank you @spark001uk for your help.
Three are now off lease, not just one, so you’d hope so. A lot of 455s also stopped from miles as well.
Those units are 458507/17/34.
Nope, not yet at least. Still working their way though Software updates and build issues. The 701 fleet seems to be becoming the cursed child for Derby and for SWR - something which seems appropriate as itself feels like the cursed TOC.
Agreed. The 710 and 720 after seemingly intractable initial teething problems seem to be settling down. I wonder how the 730s are getting on with testing because they have a different cab again, incorporating at gangway.
I just don't understand what seems to have gone so wrong with the fleet if I'm honest - one of the units I saw out on test recently had some pretty iffy looking sealing over the panel joins, another had patches of what looked like recently applied sealant too (noticeable by the lightly weathered body and shiny areas around the joins). As well as the previously mentioned issues regarding doors coming open while on the move, safety systems and software faults, I do wonder what has happened in Derby over the last few months. It's also noticeable that a small number moved into Eastleigh Works this year, and haven't come out to play since.
Not wanting to put a dampener on it, but they've been stopping and testing the doors since at leat the summer. However, it is good to see they are stretching their legs a little more than the Eastleigh - Basingstoke - Woking - Staines circuits.
If you make a software change, want to make sure everything else still works.
NR? What do NR have to do with their introduction?
Testing Selective Door Opening? Or the units failed to talk to each other on this front.
Do they have sdo on 701s?
Yes but would have thought they'd have asdo as opposed to sdo?
Will eventually have ABDO Automatic Braking and (selective) Door Opening
just getting them into traffic will be a start and i reckon it will be like CL700 ATO never actually be put into operational use
CL700 ATO is in use...
700 ato is in use in the core.
