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GWR Class 165/166 Turbo Diagrams

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Hazarding a guess, as the North Downs Line is closed all this week, freeing up a fair number of 165s, are they being put onto Paddington diagrams to enable more work to be done on the 800 fleet?
If anything, the North Downs closing should free up more 165s to form multiple sets for IET subs! :lol:
 
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So if the North Downs wasn’t shut there would have been quite a few more short forms this week!
Although to be fair we don’t know the full situation. There’s quite a backlog of Class 800 maintenance. Perhaps GWR and Hitachi are taking the extra availability to get on top of it.
 

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The 1P18 07:54 Oxford-Paddington is showing as operated as 165107+165104 tomorrow. Surprised it's come up this early but none others coming up yet.
 

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The 1P18 07:54 Oxford-Paddington is showing as operated as 165107+165104 tomorrow. Surprised it's come up this early but none others coming up yet.
Might be down to it finishing at Oxford?
 

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Might be down to it finishing at Oxford?
Yeah the diagrams that originate from Oxford Carriage Sidings tend to appear earliest, presumably they don't have to wait for a list of available units from a depot, so it makes it easier
 

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Might be down to it finishing at Oxford?
Yeah the diagrams that originate from Oxford Carriage Sidings tend to appear earliest, presumably they don't have to wait for a list of available units from a depot, so it makes it easier
Mmm that makes sense.
In RTT it seems to head to North Pole as 5P18 but I'm assuming that'll change as it isn't an IET?
 

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Mmm that makes sense.
In RTT it seems to head to North Pole as 5P18 but I'm assuming that'll change as it isn't an IET?
It most definitely won't go to North Pole, it'll probably be swapped onto another diagram or be run ECS somewhere
 

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Mmm thought as much, not an expert on GWR depot stuff but it would've been odd.
Yeah North Pole, Stoke Gifford and Swansea are Hitachi, so nothing but IETs will go there.

Everything is allocated now, all IETs so I would assume they'll run somewhere ECS. There is also an unallocated Great Malvern service (1W39, 1348), so they could get shoved somewhere and used on that, but I'd really hope GWR wouldn't do that.
 

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Yeah North Pole, Stoke Gifford and Swansea are Hitachi, so nothing but IETs will go there.
Indeed.
Looks like it's ended up operating this, 09:30 1R18 Paddington-Reading as a VSTP path? Doesn't have unit allocation on it though.
 

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Indeed.
Looks like it's ended up operating this, 09:30 1R18 Paddington-Reading as a VSTP path? Doesn't have unit allocation on it though.
Yeah I believe it was mean to operate 5R18 but it turned into a passenger service. Presumably trying to alleviate some of the chaos from lines further down being flooded, good on GWR.
 

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165113 + 111 have also been working on Paddington - Oxford services this afternoon too e.g.
 

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