Where will the Turbo go when the 230 is running to and from Greenford? Is there room for them both in the bay at Greenford?
The 230 will basically just follow the Turbo around, up and down the branch, so when the 230 is going 'Up' the Turbo will be going 'Down'. This is necessary to discharge the batteries to a 'representative state' so that when it comes back into West Ealing, there is 'headroom' in the battery State of Charge to charge them up again.
The only time that it won't be going up and down the branch is when the 230 needs to sit in West Ealing Platform 5 in order to allow some 'static' time to commission the Fast Charge system. That's when permissive working will be in operation, to allow the Turbo to come in and out.
Today (Thursday) is all about the 'static' commissioning, ditto next Monday and Tuesday, albeit only checking that the charge rails, sensors etc are lined up in the correct places to match the train. Charge rails are not due to be live until next Wednesday at the earliest.
Tomorrow the train is going up and down the branch several times to do Platform Train Interface (PTI) checks.
It got graffitied last night, so it's being cleaned.
Credit to the GWR West Ealing guys for being out in force first thing this morning, starting to clean it off!