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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 17:24:53 GMT
fcc are getting the London Overground traing when their train are up and running. Huh? Do you mean the new trains for the London Overground (North, West and East London Lines)? The orange and blue ones? They will only be used on London Overground. FCC are getting some brand new 377s,like at Southern. They will be in blue and pink livery and will operate until the new "next generation" Thameslink trains arrive from 2012/13. In the meantime they may also be borrowing some ex Silverlink/London Midland cl321 trains. These can't go south of Farringdon though.
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Post by john on Feb 17, 2009 23:59:12 GMT
fcc are getting the London Overground traing when their train are up and running. Huh? Do you mean the new trains for the London Overground (North, West and East London Lines)? The orange and blue ones? They will only be used on London Overground. FCC are getting some brand new 377s,like at Southern. They will be in blue and pink livery and will operate until the new "next generation" Thameslink trains arrive from 2012/13. In the meantime they may also be borrowing some ex Silverlink/London Midland cl321 trains. These can't go south of Farringdon though. I think he means that FCC will be getting the class 313's once the new Rolling Stock enters service on the Overground network.
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Post by metrobusfan on Feb 19, 2009 16:38:34 GMT
Huh? Do you mean the new trains for the London Overground (North, West and East London Lines)? The orange and blue ones? They will only be used on London Overground. FCC are getting some brand new 377s,like at Southern. They will be in blue and pink livery and will operate until the new "next generation" Thameslink trains arrive from 2012/13. In the meantime they may also be borrowing some ex Silverlink/London Midland cl321 trains. These can't go south of Farringdon though. I think he means that FCC will be getting the class 313's once the new Rolling Stock enters service on the Overground network. we have got the 377 at selhurst right now. we are waiting for one more carriage got be dropped off for the 3rd train we are borrwing from 'southen'. Also we are gettint the old 313's from London Overground. FCC is a joke of a company
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Post by metrobusfan on Feb 21, 2009 10:40:50 GMT
first capital connect has got more 2 year on their contract
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Post by metrobusfan on Jul 11, 2009 17:57:42 GMT
ive been toled the new trains, wont be built, wot a suprise
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2011 0:16:39 GMT
Wow, bidders have been invited to pre-qualify for this franchise. And seems this could possibly be the biggest franchise of the lot! Initially just taking over existing FCC service, then absorbing the current joint FCC/South Eastern service, plus a few other South Eastern services, then absorbing all the current Southern Franchise. Also bidders are invited to pre-qualify for the Great Western and Essex Thameside Franchises ... but these are fairly run of the mill compared to the above www.railjournal.com/newsflash/bid...-1431.html
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Post by metrobusfan on Jan 6, 2012 23:26:51 GMT
Wow, bidders have been invited to pre-qualify for this franchise. And seems this could possibly be the biggest franchise of the lot! Initially just taking over existing FCC service, then absorbing the current joint FCC/South Eastern service, plus a few other South Eastern services, then absorbing all the current Southern Franchise. Also bidders are invited to pre-qualify for the Great Western and Essex Thameside Franchises ... but these are fairly run of the mill compared to the above www.railjournal.com/newsflash/bid...-1431.htmlBring on the Super TOC
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Post by snowman on Jun 14, 2013 12:25:57 GMT
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Post by snoggle on Jun 14, 2013 18:06:04 GMT
More like 2 years of negotiating and trying desperately to secure the finance when banks and lenders are not lending money. It took far too long but the circumstances were very adverse. Bombardier will not be offered anything. They have to compete alongside other bidders and offer the best deal. I suspect they are not in the best of positions as I expect Siemens will offer a variant of the Thameslink design and Hitachi will offer a variant of something from Japan in order to keep their new assembly plant busy. Alstom, Bombardier and CAF might also pitch in to the contest. This is likely to be a very hard fought competition. The politics will be horrible (it's all been rehearsed in the papers for months) and there'll be all sorts of demands for the process to favour Bombardier but Crossrail cannot do that or else they'll end up in the clink for breaking EU procurement laws.
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Post by snowman on Nov 9, 2013 18:18:28 GMT
Stagecoach have published plans for their bid for the Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern super-franchise further details on link and you can leave your comments as well www.franchise-feedback.com/
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Post by snoggle on Nov 9, 2013 19:30:05 GMT
Stagecoach have published plans for their bid for the Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern super-franchise further details on link and you can leave your comments as well www.franchise-feedback.com/I must be a bit thick because I cannot find anything on there that says what *Stagecoach* are going to do. They're simply asking for people's wants and wish list. The info links are all to sources external to Stagecoach. What am I missing?
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Post by londonbusboy on Nov 10, 2013 0:22:51 GMT
I have been using First's capital connect for over a month now and the amount of delays/cancellations they make is unbelievable. Whether its their fault or Network rail is another story. But the 319s they use are absolutely horrible!
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Post by vjaska on Nov 10, 2013 0:39:24 GMT
I have been using First's capital connect for over a month now and the amount of delays/cancellations they make is unbelievable. Whether its their fault or Network rail is another story. But the 319s they use are absolutely horrible! The Capital Connect service, according to others stories, has always been shocking. The state of their trains are quite awful too so I'm led to believe its their fault rather than Network Rail.
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Post by snowman on Nov 10, 2013 8:06:07 GMT
Stagecoach have published plans for their bid for the Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern super-franchise further details on link and you can leave your comments as well www.franchise-feedback.com/I must be a bit thick because I cannot find anything on there that says what *Stagecoach* are going to do. They're simply asking for people's wants and wish list. The info links are all to sources external to Stagecoach. What am I missing? Apologies for bad phrasing, the plans are the DfTs, the request for views are Stagecoach
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Post by snoggle on Nov 10, 2013 9:29:08 GMT
I have been using First's capital connect for over a month now and the amount of delays/cancellations they make is unbelievable. Whether its their fault or Network rail is another story. But the 319s they use are absolutely horrible! The Capital Connect service, according to others stories, has always been shocking. The state of their trains are quite awful too so I'm led to believe its their fault rather than Network Rail. I think people need to distinguish somewhat between the Great Northern service and the Thameslink route. GN services seem to do better operationally but are prone to overhead wire problems courtesy of Network Rail. Thameslink services are difficult to run anyway but First have struggled to run it properly. Management has seen changed several times and there have been notable failings with the handling of serious service disruptions. We must also remember that the franchise was let on a fairly unadventurous basis so First have not been required to make big investments but have had to deal with the impact of the first phase of the Thameslink project affecting the route Blackfriars and north. Of course they will soon have to cope with the impact of second phase when London Bridge lines are closed stage by stage. One notable thing - FCC is the only franchise that pays a premium that is larger than the government's grant to Network Rail for the franchise so it is a genuinely profitable franchise but perhaps that is only achieved because of the relatively poor service quality. It will be interesting to see who wins the next franchise which will be a management contract given the scale of uncertainty over disruption, introducing new trains and changed service patterns.
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