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Rail Operations Group 47812 passing through Deighton on 30th June 2020 with TransPennine Express Nova 3 set TP02.

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TP02 had been in store at Gascoigne Wood Sidings since 15th April 2020.  Todays move was 5Q32, 08.48 Gascoigne Wood Sidings to Longsight Wheel Lathe - a quite appropriate destination judging from the several wheel flats that the set obviously has as it passed me.

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TransPennine Express 68022 'Resolution' with Nova 3 set TP13 heading through Ravensthorpe on 21st July 2020 with 5Z68, 11.07 Longsight TMD to York Siemens Trans Systems.

 

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I didn't catch the number of the Nova 1 set which was working 9M22, 10.46 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street, although I can be certain that it wasn't 802212 as that passed me a few minutes earlier working 1P23.

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10 minutes ago, SHMD said:

I've put this off long enough...  

How can you tell which set is what Nova number?

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Kev.

 

Because the Nova 1,2,& 3 are completely different trains.

 

Nova 1 is the Hitachi CL802

Nova 2 is the CAF Civity CL397

Nova 3 is the CL68 MK5A combo.

 

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Interesting to see the 47 above - could that in theory operate the trains, or is it only able to drag them dead (so not able to use the DVT or anything else other than presumably the brakes)?

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6 hours ago, 313201 said:

The coaches work in service with class 68 locos only

 

And not all CL68's can be used, the TPE one's plus a couple of others have been modified to work the MK5a sets.

 

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Just now, jpendle said:

 

And not all CL68's can be used, the TPE one's plus a couple of others have been modified to work the MK5a sets.

 

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John P

 

 

68019-34

 

68033 and 034 are the only two DRS liveried ones that can operate with them unless they have converted more.

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That'd be for full normal operation (things like having the door controls in the loco) wouldn't it? Surely any air braked loco with the correct ETS output would be able to pull a train of mk5as with passengers on board, but not necessarily using the same operating procedures that they do the the 68s.

Obviously compatibility with the DTS for propelling is another matter.

No doubt there's paperwork & safety acceptance issues that would prevent it too, and no reason at all to get a 47 approved for the job.

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Really does make me think we've just made things far too complicated. It's easy enough to see all the reasons why it it is what it is, but when you take a step back is it really worth it?

 

Anyway, hadn't realised that not even all 68s could work with them (and I also thought they were designed to work with 88s because one of the points of the whole thing was to just change loco instead of the entire train when wired up, although of course that could've been planned with doing the necessary work).

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29 minutes ago, Reorte said:

Really does make me think we've just made things far too complicated. It's easy enough to see all the reasons why it it is what it is, but when you take a step back is it really worth it?

 

Anyway, hadn't realised that not even all 68s could work with them (and I also thought they were designed to work with 88s because one of the points of the whole thing was to just change loco instead of the entire train when wired up, although of course that could've been planned with doing the necessary work).

 

I don't think it's a lot of work what they did to make them compatible. I don't think it's like the Chiltern ones and mk3s which need a different system altogether AFAIK.

 

I do think it is as simple as the stuff that is missing from the cab to operate functions on the coaches, and a front destination board (which don't seem to be used).

 

I wonder if the mk5s have pantograph/electric system control in them if 88s/93s were part of the plan? You cannot operate those from the cab of a 68 so DRS need to consider this when deciding what end/order to put locos in when mixing 68s and 88s.

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3 hours ago, Reorte said:

Really does make me think we've just made things far too complicated. It's easy enough to see all the reasons why it it is what it is, but when you take a step back is it really worth it?

 

 

16 locos should be enough to cover all required diagrams with some to spare, and it's not really any different from the initial 12 Class 47/7s converted for the Edinburgh/Glasgow push-pull service back in the 1980s !

 

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I’m not sure of all the details, but it’s been reported this evening on another forum that all of the CAF built Mark 5 Nova 3 sets have been stopped until further notice due to ‘bogie issues’ on the Driving Open Brake Standard vehicles.  Class 185s will be deputising on the Scarborough services from 3rd October apparently.  

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16 hours ago, 4630 said:

I’m not sure of all the details, but it’s been reported this evening on another forum that all of the CAF built Mark 5 Nova 3 sets have been stopped until further notice due to ‘bogie issues’ on the Driving Open Brake Standard vehicles.  Class 185s will be deputising on the Scarborough services from 3rd October apparently.  

Looks like they have had to split the recent 6 car trains, a 3 car on 1F66 just now.

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Just to provide a bit of an update from a number of posts on other forums...

 

It would appear that this issue has been known about for several weeks with a National Incident Report issued on 19th August after a defect was spotted on a class 397, which together with classes 195 and 331 have a similar bogie and suspension set up to the Nova 3 Mark 5 stock.

 

The 397s are continuing to run in service with regular inspections of the affected components.  A modification is required which the builders CAF have in hand, apparently.   The work will be undertaken at Longsight depot.  With the immediate focus on sorting out the 397s, it's been suggested that TPE can currently cope without the Mark5s by substituting with class 185s.

 

 

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22 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I wonder whether this issue will affect the Caledonian sleeper mk5 stock as well.

 

Jamie


That crossed my mind too, although from a purely local point of view I’m more interested to learn if the 195s and 331s are similarly affected.  Even with the current reduced timetable taking many of them out of service simultaneously might cause a few issues for Northern Trains. 

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On 02/10/2020 at 21:40, 4630 said:

I’m not sure of all the details, but it’s been reported this evening on another forum that all of the CAF built Mark 5 Nova 3 sets have been stopped until further notice due to ‘bogie issues’ on the Driving Open Brake Standard vehicles.  Class 185s will be deputising on the Scarborough services from 3rd October apparently.  

 

2 hours ago, 4630 said:

Just to provide a bit of an update from a number of posts on other forums...

 

It would appear that this issue has been known about for several weeks with a National Incident Report issued on 19th August after a defect was spotted on a class 397, which together with classes 195 and 331 have a similar bogie and suspension set up to the Nova 3 Mark 5 stock.

 

The 397s are continuing to run in service with regular inspections of the affected components.  A modification is required which the builders CAF have in hand, apparently.   The work will be undertaken at Longsight depot.  With the immediate focus on sorting out the 397s, it's been suggested that TPE can currently cope without the Mark5s by substituting with class 185s.

 

 

 

Thank you for sharing this information. 

 

I haven't heard of this until you posted. Hopefully all of the units can be modified relatively quickly and it won't be too long before at least some of the units are back in traffic. It's a good job TPE still have all of their 185s. 

 

Kind Regards, 

 

Danny. 

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13 hours ago, DRS Crewe On A Mission said:

 

 

Thank you for sharing this information. 

 

I haven't heard of this until you posted. Hopefully all of the units can be modified relatively quickly and it won't be too long before at least some of the units are back in traffic. It's a good job TPE still have all of their 185s. 

 

Kind Regards, 

 

Danny. 

 

You're welcome Danny.

 

I know a few forum members here follow what's happening (or not as the case may be!) in the TransPennine Express and Northern Trains part of the network, and might not have seen the posts on other forums.

 

As you say, it's fortunate that TPE retained the full complement of 185s.  The suspension from service of the Mark 5s only affects the current 3 Liverpool Lime Street-Scarborough diagrams but, as noted by @dhjgreen above, will mean that some other TPE diagrams that have run recently as 2x185s (ie 6 cars) might revert to a single 185.

 

To some extent, from my recent observations, this had already happened to some services anyway.  The Leeds-Huddersfield hourly stoppers for instance, which for social distancing reasons had been running as 2x185s, reverted to a single unit a few weeks ago.  Even taking account of social distancing requirements I would imagine that that would be more than adequate given current passenger numbers. 

 

What with the various technical issues resulting in the glacial progress before the pandemic of introducing the Mark 5s to full service and now this latest set back, I can foresee that Accurascale will have delivered their new models to market before TPE has been able to get the entire fleet successfully into service.   

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Whatever the issue is, it appears that one of the three diagrams today is being worked by a class 68 and Mark 5.  The remaining two diagrams being worked by 185s.


68025+TP06 should be working the following today;

 

1F56  07:34  Scarborough - Manchester Victoria

5H56  10.01  Manchester Victoria - Longsight

5E43  15.00  Longsight - Manchester Victoria 
1E43  16:30  Manchester Victoria - Scarborough
1P92  19:34  Scarborough - Manchester Airport

5H90  22.43  Manchester Airport - Longsight

 

It’ll be interesting to see if it completes the full diagram.

 

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So with TP06 leading and 68025 'Superb' providing the power from the rear, here is 1F56 at Colne Bridge today.

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I would be interested to know if this is to do with the bearing temperature issues they have been getting or if it is something else.

 

AFAIK the long term idea is 12 diagrams and 1 set in maintenance isn't it? Will there be 6 diagrams a day each on the Scarborough and Middlesbrough trains or will there be some other services in between? Thinking about it it would be about 6 for each wouldn't it.

 

What's everyone's thoughts on the performance of these sets vs the 185s? I don't think they have the same get up and go as the 185s (which is probably just a MU vs loco thing) but they seem to accelerate quite well once they are off.

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13 minutes ago, dhjgreen said:

Nova set on 1F66 just now.

 

All three diagrams today are being worked by class 68s and Nova 3 sets apparently - should be 68024+TP07, 68028+TP11 & 68029+TP09.

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TransPennine Express Nova 3 set TP10 with 68024 'Centaur' at Ravensthorpe on 8th December 2020 with 1E35, 11.54 Liverpool Lime Street to Scarborough.

 

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Far fewer opportunities to see these working west of York after the timetable change which takes effect on 13th December 2020, unfortunately.

 

In essence Monday-Friday, except for one morning Liverpool Lime Street-Scarborough (1E25) and a couple of late evening Scarborough-Manchester Airport workings (used as now to cycle locos and TP sets to Longsight for maintenance), the service has been pared back to a York-Scarborough shuttle.

 

TPE Scarborough 14/12/2020

 

I guess that's all the current levels of passenger demand requires.

 

 

 

 

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Not your every day working for a class 68 and a Nova 3 set on 26th February 2021.  Set TP10 with 68029 'Courageous’ providing the motive power passing through Deighton with 5Z68, 10.15 Crewe Basford Hall to Leeds Balm Road.

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Routine maintenance of the Nova 3 sets is usually undertaken at Manchester, so I'm assuming that this trip to Freightliner's facility at Balm Road is out of the ordinary, possibly to make use of the wheel lathe there?*  No onward or return working is in the schedule as yet. 

 

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* Confirmed on another forum that the set is there for a spin on the wheel lathe. 

 

 

 

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