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TfW withdrawals (170/175 all gone, now just class 15x to go)

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TheWalrus said:
I was aware of the C6 exams, hopefully they will find homes abroad or used as spare parts donors.

My thoughts are the 175s going to GWR won’t be enough to replace all Castles and IETs on regional services so to enable this maybe GWR could take some of the 158s?
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The last time I asked, the DfT had firm plans to put all the Welsh 158 units into Northern. GWR (or any other DfT TOC) were not going to get a look in.
 
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sd0733 said:
Both are back out on service on the valleys, the first 'non active travel' 153s in service for several days.
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They seem to be both out as single units covering the Caerphilly-Penarth-Coryton diagrams.

Which is better than the times recently where they've just had some of those diagrams uncovered due to a shortage of workable trains.

Does anyone know if the problem is that the 150s are failing, or if it's the 231s or 756s and they've been pinching 150s to fill in elsewhere?
I've seen a few 150s apparantly taken off the Caerphilly/Coryton services at Central recently, which suggests that they might have been sent onto other services rather than having failed.
 
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Lots of 153s and at least one 150 at Landore today when i passed on the way into Swansea. It used to be all 175s and I think some MK4 carriages now its turned into Sprinter City!

Also there was a 150 sat at Platform 1 for the HOWL and also the early evening Fishguard (1726 from Swansea) was also formed of a 150 today. No sign of any 153s or 158s at Swansea, all 197s and 150s.
 
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Jez said:
Lots of 153s and at least one 150 at Landore today when i passed on the way into Swansea. It used to be all 175s and I think some MK4 carriages now its turned into Sprinter City!

Also there was a 150 sat at Platform 1 for the HOWL and also the early evening Fishguard (1726 from Swansea) was also formed of a 150 today. No sign of any 153s or 158s at Swansea, all 197s and 150s.
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And next year it’ll just be 197s, and the odd 153
 
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Wyrleybart said:
Interesting "CY". Presume the ERTMS would be isolated rather than stripped out then, if it happens.
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Angel has previously advise that the Ansaldo onboard ETCS, which is not up to the required ’baseline’ for other routes e.g. ECML or Transpennine, will be removed entirely before re-leasing.
 
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158822 said:
Does anyone know why one of the seats on 150258 still has an Arriva cover?
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There's a few arriva bits and bobs knocking around across the fleet. Some 158s have Arriva tray tables in places, some units have random Arriva moquette cushions, it'll be a case of something needs replacing now and that's all that they had in the stores on hand to get the unit back out in service.
 
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