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Porterbrook Cl.769 'Flex' trains from 319s, initially for Northern
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Liam L
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December for the 323s? All in by May 2024. Id be surprised if you get your first unit by May 2024 to be honest.
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No training has started at new Street I believe.
That's why i'm saying lets see what happens!!
Halwynd
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I've only seen them from the footpath on the other side of the tunnel - they look even bigger from the platform side.
I'm not sure they inspire confidence!
norbitonflyer
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I was planning a trip to the north west to sample classes 197, 230, 769 and 777, but I note from RTT that the Southport - Manchester route is entirely operated by Sprinters today, although at least one 769 was running yesterday. Is today a one-off?
pokemonsuper9
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It is quite rare to have no 769s running on Weekdays. Typically there's 3 or so out so there's probably more than just the one missing diagram due to staff issues.
175001
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They've had reliability issues in the past few weeks.
And they can't run just one in service incase it fails..
And they can't run just one in service incase it fails..
Are you sure it is 769959? https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...f-lease-march-23.174866/page-100#post-6424650
jonesy3001
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There's a post on twitter as well, 37884 doing the honours.
Yes, just saw it is a single unit on the Bushbury railcam. It just contradicted the earlier information. Anyway, being discussed in the GWR 769 thread.
lumitumey12345
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Could you send a link to the post?
jonesy3001
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warwickshire
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Yes one hundred percent 37884 with 769959 through Bromsgrove 2 late.
Liam L
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jonesy3001
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Thought I'd give you some publicity.Good Twitter account that
Yes it was 769959 as seen in my photo
Wonder what will happen to them.
Pete_uk
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Going to the great siding in the sky
Edit sorry I thought that was a scrap yard so maybe not yet.
lumitumey12345
Member
Apparently they will be used to replace some 156's, which means we could be seeing Scotrail 769's?
jonesy3001
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Wonder where the 156s will end up.
Can't see that happening though with the distances the 156s go in Scotland.
Southsider
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12 miles to East Kilbride from Glasgow Central? A fair bit of which is already under wires with more to come soon.
Nicholas Lewis
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Sensible move so hope this comes to fruition.
Wyrleybart
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There are 1001 possibilites really. How about wrapping in Sealink livery to work the Glasgow - Stranraer "boat trains", except I guess the "boat services" are probably from Cairnryan these days !!!
Peter Sarf
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Given their reliability - Stranrar wouldn't disrupt Sealink passengers too much then.
Greybeard33
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After a promising start to the year, with six Northern 769s in traffic on a number of days, from RTT their availability seems to have nosedived over the past couple of weeks. Lots of 15x stand-ins on 769 diagrams. Does anyone know what the problems are?
Phillipimo
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RTT suggests there were 5 out yesterday and 5 out today (7 different units). So perhaps there is cause for optimism - or just a fluke. Obviously things change day by day.
23/01: 769431, 442, 448, 450, 458
24/01: 769431, 434, 442, 450, 456
For some days (since the diagramming went back to 6/8 from 4/8) there were 6 out regularly, but has slipped on the past week or so, and has been as low as 3. Perhaps one point is that in late Dec/Jan engineering work on the Bolton line has meant no 769's out on a Saturday (there is already no booked work on a Sunday) so perhaps there has been a reaction to being woken up on a cold Monday having stood for 2 days.............poor things!
Greybeard33
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Well yesterday and today were certainly an improvement over Monday 22nd, when I think only 442, 448 and 450 were out. But Friday 19th was worse still - only 442 and 450 started the day and both failed in the morning peak, leaving the service in tatters. So perhaps it's more the case that they need the weekend to recuperate after an exhausting week!
childwallblues
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I travelled on 769448 on the 1033 Southport as far as Manchester Victoria. Performed very well and sitting in the pantograph coach got a good 319 thrash from Kearsley to Salford Crescent.
jonesy3001
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Wonder how they'll perform going up miles platting towards stalybridge when the overheads have been tested next week.