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Post by rif153 on Aug 30, 2019 10:15:57 GMT
Strike starts today and lasts until Monday. Left me in the absolute dog house this one. No trains to Guildford or Dorking via Epsom and no Shepperton services. Absolutely brilliant when I'm meant to be meeting a friend in Kingston today and then seeing another one in Guildford tomorrow! I miss South West Trains..... Did you find an alternative or did you cancel the trip?
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Post by 725DYE on Aug 30, 2019 10:21:21 GMT
Strike starts today and lasts until Monday. Left me in the absolute dog house this one. No trains to Guildford or Dorking via Epsom and no Shepperton services. Absolutely brilliant when I'm meant to be meeting a friend in Kingston today and then seeing another one in Guildford tomorrow! I miss South West Trains..... Did you find an alternative or did you cancel the trip? I'll use Thameslink to get to Wimbledon and then use a Strawberry Hill loop train (AFAIK they're still running). As per Guildford, probably just a fast train from Clapham Jn... but it'll cost more!
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Post by thewintersoldier on Aug 31, 2019 5:55:44 GMT
Strike starts today and lasts until Monday. Left me in the absolute dog house this one. No trains to Guildford or Dorking via Epsom and no Shepperton services. Absolutely brilliant when I'm meant to be meeting a friend in Kingston today and then seeing another one in Guildford tomorrow! I miss South West Trains..... Looks like a very skeletal Sunday service
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Post by routew15 on Sept 2, 2019 6:49:45 GMT
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Post by george on Sept 2, 2019 6:58:38 GMT
Not the nicest looking train ever it has to be said. It's a real shame that the perfectly good 707s will be going.
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Post by richard on Sept 2, 2019 8:06:55 GMT
Not the nicest looking train ever it has to be said. It's a real shame that the perfectly good 707s will be going. It looks a little bit like a 319 707s are much better
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Post by rif153 on Sept 2, 2019 8:11:08 GMT
Not the nicest looking train ever it has to be said. It's a real shame that the perfectly good 707s will be going. It looks a little bit like a 319 707s are much better Its sad to see the DeisroCity doing so badly, whilst Bombardier are of course scooping up order after order. Whilst the Aventras are good trains, I think they'll become boring due to their ubiquituos presence. The 707s are a complete waste, and I'd join george in hoping they don't sit in storage gathering dust. Hopefully someone else snaps them up off the leasing company soon.
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Post by george on Sept 2, 2019 10:00:10 GMT
It looks a little bit like a 319 707s are much better Its sad to see the DeisroCity doing so badly, whilst Bombardier are of course scooping up order after order. Whilst the Aventras are good trains, I think they'll become boring due to their ubiquituos presence. The 707s are a complete waste, and I'd join george in hoping they don't sit in storage gathering dust. Hopefully someone else snaps them up off the leasing company soon. Apparently the plan was to have them on the southeastern but not that's been cancelled the future is uncertain. Now I don't know if this is true I'm simply saying what I have seen on a post on the Rail Forum.
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Post by george on Sept 2, 2019 10:27:53 GMT
Not the nicest looking train ever it has to be said. It's a real shame that the perfectly good 707s will be going. It looks a little bit like a 319 707s are much better It reminds me a bit like the Northern 331 stock.
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Post by richard on Sept 2, 2019 11:32:49 GMT
It looks a little bit like a 319 707s are much better It reminds me a bit like the Northern 331 stock. I see what you mean but its slightly different by the looks of it
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Post by 725DYE on Sept 3, 2019 10:14:06 GMT
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Post by YY13VKP on Sept 3, 2019 11:23:43 GMT
Something similar happened with the LNER Azuma's before they entered service, where they were causing electromagnetic interference with the lineside equipment past York when running on electric mode. This was mainly because that the signals up north were more than 30 years old but had still not been replaced by the time they were being tested. Since these were bi-modes though they could still run beyond York but on diesel power only, and explains why the first units didn't enter service on Scottish services until August, despite running between London and Leeds since May. The thing that confuses me about this though is that none of the 442's currently in service have received significant modifications externally yet so they should still run pretty much the same way as they did before they moved to Gatwick Express. I had thought that there had been a major signalling upgrade in the Earlsfield area (where the article mentions the problems are occurring) fairly recently, possibly during the Waterloo blockade in 2017 but trains were still running through Earlsfield at the time. While this has all been going on, the first retractioned Class 442 was released from Eastleigh Works yesterday
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Post by snowman on Sept 3, 2019 12:03:08 GMT
Something similar happened with the LNER Azuma's before they entered service, where they were causing electromagnetic interference with the lineside equipment past York when running on electric mode. This was mainly because that the signals up north were more than 30 years old but had still not been replaced by the time they were being tested. Since these were bi-modes though they could still run beyond York but on diesel power only, and explains why the first units didn't enter service on Scottish services until August, despite running between London and Leeds since May. The thing that confuses me about this though is that none of the 442's currently in service have received significant modifications externally yet so they should still run pretty much the same way as they did before they moved to Gatwick Express. I had thought that there had been a major signalling upgrade in the Earlsfield area (where the article mentions the problems are occurring) fairly recently, possibly during the Waterloo blockade in 2017 but trains were still running through Earlsfield at the time. While this has all been going on, the first retractioned Class 442 was released from Eastleigh Works yesterday Apparently tends to happen at same location, which suggests there is either a troublesome relay associated with a signal at that location, or is some other unusual combination (such as a gap in the third rail at points which causes arcing and a lot of interference, probably adjacent to a signal cabinet, on a stretch where full power is applied).
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Post by thewintersoldier on Sept 3, 2019 15:52:08 GMT
Something similar happened with the LNER Azuma's before they entered service, where they were causing electromagnetic interference with the lineside equipment past York when running on electric mode. This was mainly because that the signals up north were more than 30 years old but had still not been replaced by the time they were being tested. Since these were bi-modes though they could still run beyond York but on diesel power only, and explains why the first units didn't enter service on Scottish services until August, despite running between London and Leeds since May. The thing that confuses me about this though is that none of the 442's currently in service have received significant modifications externally yet so they should still run pretty much the same way as they did before they moved to Gatwick Express. I had thought that there had been a major signalling upgrade in the Earlsfield area (where the article mentions the problems are occurring) fairly recently, possibly during the Waterloo blockade in 2017 but trains were still running through Earlsfield at the time. While this has all been going on, the first retractioned Class 442 was released from Eastleigh Works yesterday Some of the signals in the Earlsfield area were replaced from 4 aspect colour light to 2 aspect LED signals, capable of showing more than one colour. There was no major signalling upgrade. Indeed the photo itself shows W175 which is an old signal, right at Earlsfield, some of the signals had been replaced some had not. Rumour mill says the static converters are causing the problem.
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Post by TNL33036 on Sept 16, 2019 11:25:06 GMT
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