The ex-G/A units have the BTROS equipment fitted. This is denoted by the 156/9 suffix (this helps traincrew know which system is fitted). When they are changed out to TrainFX equipment they lose the /9 suffix and revert back to /4 units.
Nothing to do with traincrew and everything to do with control, it's quite obvious to me which is which
156s haven’t been allocated to Neville hill for years now, that could potentially but I doubt it as I don’t think many Leeds drivers sign them
Is there any chance of the 156s from EMR freeing up 158s on other duties outside Leeds and allowing some to be split and sandwiched as 3 cars like they did with 150003-006? Are Leeds - Wigan and Leeds - Carlisle the only services where 3 car 158s run?
No plans for that.
Not that I'm aware of (although Arriva did initially plan a fleet of 3-car 150s greater than what we ended up with).
I saw a 3 car 158 at York in the April, but it was not in service. Haven't been since.
I believe 412 has gone to Wolverton.
Huddersfield to Sheffield was planned for 3-car 150s under the original Arriva franchise, hence the platforms being extended to accommodate 90m formations. It requires 3 units to operate the standard hourly service (plus one extra unit for the teatime peak ex-HUD). As there are six 3-car units at present (the two prototypes and four "hybrid" units) where else would be likely to see these units? IIRC Knottingleys and Leeds-Sheffield via Casvegas were the original routes alongside Penistone that were earmarked for 3-car 150s.
4 dedicated units for a service pattern which requires four diagrams? What could possibly go wrong there?
A 2 car on one of the diagrams. 3 out of the 4 3 cars on the rest.
The Memsahib wasn't impressed when she found that info out...
They can keep that one, that particular ship is cursed
My lowest mileage 156 by some margin given the amount of time it has spent out of traffic broken. It arrived from Anglia with a hole in the roof that they'd just been letting it run around with and had to go to Landore for ages to be fixed and that was just the start of it.Spent about 5 minutes on Nottingham platform 7 looking towards 156402 before I realised it was in Northern colours
No, the cab canopy is removed whilst they are in Wolverton and painted. It contrasts with the main roof as this has only been painted in patches.Ah, Northern will be pleased - It'll come Pre-Weathered for them!
It looks like 402 has received a new cab roof too.
Sods, can't they take some of the scabby Anglia ones, 401 is actually a good old horse!
402 is an Anglia one…
But is it a "scabby" Anglia one?
No! Don't take any more of our faithful 156s. We need more units not fewer.
