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  1. russ p
    It depends on whether the prototype HST is numbered 252001 or in the 41xxx series for power cars
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    What happened to this car it looks quite a late picture
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    I bet some of those people are no longer with us. It's very depressing that view seems like yesterday
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    That ok Jonny, there's plenty of things I've believed in the past only to find it was wrong
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    That was actually a pad to stop paintwork damage when changing tokens on the move. It was also fitted to Derby lightweight and yellow diamond metcams allocated to East Anglia Tablet catchers would have been just above the sole bar on the M&GN
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    Scary to think the woman in this scene that looks so recent and familiar is probably approaching or retired by now! Where's the stop button I want to get off!!
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    What's happening in the top photo Nidge, white lights on the loco and two reds on the signal?
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    I still think for total fleet replacement and ERTMS it's a case of believe it when you see it to be honest
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    It would have been better to spend most of the billion plus pounds on improving the infrastructure rather than replacing trains that in most cases don't warrant it. Most of the delays on the GE are down to poor overcrowded infrastructure rather than train failures
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    Looks like a scalextric track!
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    Good to see after thirty years this machine is more or less the same as it was. Who'd have thought that back in 86
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    There is no reason for any GE EMU to tilt. Apparently according to the late news abellio is going spend over a billion pounds. Where are they going to get this from?
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    Pendolinos may be reliable but be honest they are bloody awful. They are cramped, loads of wasted space , they smell , make people sick and you can see out of them. If I have to go to Crewe from Norwich I honestly go Cross country even if it adds an hour or so to the journey And those Hitachi things are fast suburban EMUs like the ones on CTRL, and they have all the interior charisma of a 1985 Nissan bluebird
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    I'd like to know of a modern EMU other than a 442 which is nice to travel in? Ironically I was told by a very senior abellio manager that public preferred the DRS mklls to their first class mkllls
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    I know what you are saying, but EMUs have compressors, traction motors and other equipment underfloor which all make noise A 12 car articulated unit is ridiculous a fault on one vehicle renders the whole 12 set as a failure, not that depots split four car units these days.
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    I know mk111s are not new but if you strip them right back to a shell and rebuild it's not going to affect reliability, 88s would be good as at least when there is problems with the overhead at least they can plod on or even divert via Cambridge or Bury The DVT could as was originally proposed by ONE rebuilt with some passenger accommodation, bikes also need to be catered for OK it may not be able to cram as many passengers as some EMU but a lot more flexible and comfortable to travel in
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    As I stated before I don't think the new trains should be built until there is capacity. The mkllls could be rebuilt at Doncaster,brush, Wolverton and Kilmarnock thus helping those companies. I know the loco would possibly be Spanish but he ho . Those new trains look about as mainline as a 142. The transpennine contract is more than short term by the way
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    So the best way to safeguard more jobs is to rebuild the mkllls and replace in 8 to 10 years time
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    Sorry I was just thinking about the 68 factory. The thing with cloe Smith was that she was trying to make out she had sorted all this out herself
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    The mainline ones are stadler
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    Those units look like bloody trams not the type of replacement for a 90 surely? As I said earlier the ideal solution would be rebuild the mkllls and have 88s on them Also one of the reasons abellio got the franchise was according to that stupid Smith mp was to safeguard British jobs well half the new trains are Spanish. Why do these new Tory MPs talk to the public if they are stupid junior school pupils?
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    There has just been an item on look East saying that 1000+ new' carriages' will be built. The mp Clohe Smith was desperately trying to take credit for it all blaming current delays on old trains! I'm surprised she knows what a train is!
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    I think it's too early to say Phil. Apparently the vehicles are from bombardier thankfully not Siemens. But if they want to do Norwich in an hour and a half I would have thought some sections would have to be 125mph Personally I think the best solution would be Chiltern style rebuilding of the mkllls and 88s, but the public want new build even though they wouldn't know the difference
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    If it is 4 x 4 car units there isn't a lot of difference with the space of the loco and the intermediate cabs along the train Also look at a pendelino as see how space is wasted on those foul things
  25. russ p
    So the GE mainline becomes even duller and less comfortable for passengers
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