Peter Sarf
Established Member
Crickey. So there are definitely enough 68+Mk5s in the right place for the six diagrams. Sort of indicates the 68+Mk5s are not an issue unless they are clogging up maintenance roads. Afterthought - of course Cleethorpes as well ?.There are currently seven sets on Longsight:
68019/TP07
68020/TP02
68021/TP10
68022/TP09
68026/TP05
68031/TP06
68032/TP08
Many thanks for that. Those are all very good points. I was stupidly looking at it from a passenger perspective of overcrowding on three car Class 185s!
It seems from posts up thread that if only part of the three day diagram does not have a driver/crew available the whole three days are lost. Of course it is obvious that sets cannot be swapped for 68+Mk5s part way through a three day cycle.
Assuming above is true this makes me wonder if the show would work a lot better if the diagrams were only one day long instead of three. I would assume that would cut the chances of a 68+Mk5 being substituted by a 185 to one third. That would mean more sets starting off from Longsight daily. But surely plenty of them do daily cross the er Pennines (I am not sure) !.
Is there one depot that does not (yet) have enough drivers/crew or is it all over the TPE route ?.