2000 Mp701D seems pretty reasonable for service entry. From memory this is entirely typical of 2nd generation EMUs.
And while I'm no great fan of yellow ends for the sake of it, it has actually improved the looks of the 701!
What's the Combined Volume?
Ian Allan spotting books of old, and more recent versions by platform 5, etc, including everything that exists on the national network and more, not just the old 'locoshed' spotting books that were largely about main line locos and units and their depot allocations.
Yeah I agree. The yellow really suits the new design featured on the 701. Also conveniently matches the colour of the "arterio" branding.
I would wager someone with artistic flair in the PR type dept., used the yellow front example to work up their idea for branding. I don't know, just taking an educated guess of how these things tend to work...
Or there are issues that are still delaying the full introduction, be it staffing, faults or any other number of reasons. You seem to think that SWR should just use them whatever is the reason behind the delay. Obviously there is something stopping their introduction currently and no one here knows the real reasons behind it. Everything is speculaton and rumors now.
Combined volumes have been going for over 80 years. The business started because Mr Allen's work in the publiucity department of the Southern Railway often involved answering queries about its locomotives, so in 1942 he started publishing a listing of them, later extending to the other members of the Big Four. The "Combined Volume" was a combination of those "Big Four" pocket books.
You've got a fertile imagination if that's what you read into my comments. I only recently posted that we're all speculating on the delay and none of us actually know the reasons.
Source?
I'm sure there's a politer way of wording that.
A small step in the right direction.
Does this mean the soft launch is over? Since it's going to run a diagram
Technically instead of a preview extra service, will now be a start to phasing them in
Quite so. I was/am referring to pre and early WW2 days, prior to when Mr Allan was known about for most in those days. My old man was evacuated from the Smoke up North in 1940, and was fortunate enough in being billeted somewhere with a railway at the bottom of the garden, which was largely the domain of pre grouping locos, and a good many of the (then) new kids on the block, 8F's as I know them. Might be why I have a soft spot for them?
I'm not all too familiar with how busy specific services are but I suspect between Tuesday and Thursday we may see some heavy loadings.
I think it would be closer to the term being canned if it was working a full day's diagram but I'm almost 100% sure it will be going back to either Wimbledon or Clapham before the evening peak.
You're the second person to suggest that diagram will be a 701, but there is nothing on RTT to confirm it.
But then it has to get to Feltham in the morning...
Sorry, what system shows that?
It's from internal documents.
Assuming the swap is for crew reasons?
There hasn't been any movement on training so I'd assume so - but that isn't taking away from assuming this actually does happen it being some sort of step in the right direction
Righto.
So about third of a working day
The (extreme) cynic in me thinks that by doing this SWR can claim that the 701s have entered service properly, then sit back for another 3 months while no progress whatsoever on their full introduction is made.
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
That’s 7 hours on the SWR network for the 701. It will test the reliability.Realtimetrains is now showing 5Y89 on Monday to take the train operating 2U36 back to Wimbledon.
Realtime Trains | 5Y89 1358 London Waterloo to Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs | 15/04/2024
Real-time train running information for 5Y89 1358 departure from London Waterloo to Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs on 15/04/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
And to complete the jigsaw, (as ascertained from platform occupation at Waterloo on RTT)Realtimetrains is now showing 5Y89 on Monday to take the train operating 2U36 back to Wimbledon.
Realtime Trains | 5Y89 1358 London Waterloo to Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs | 15/04/2024
Real-time train running information for 5Y89 1358 departure from London Waterloo to Wimbledon Park Depot Sdgs on 15/04/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.