I've been in a train with every seat full and people standing up
Ah Brilliant thanks for that mate I’m suspecting they’ve removed most of the horrible 3x2 seating to longer up the isles if possible & give it a fresh look like some new modifications traction makeover, make the toilets look like they’ve never been used, making the interior look easier to move around as these trains do go on the airport runs a lot. 720511 is like the 1st ever unit to enter service back in 2020 with 720515 up next.
3+2 seating has not meet removed. There has been a couple of seats near door ways removed to make it easier to move in entrance.
Oh yes the fold up seats by the door buttons. I’ll investigate the new software mods I suspect it’s nothing that exciting it’s to make the unit more fault free to give passengers less disruption more comfort .
Adventra platform??
720511
They are not in the Eurostar depot!
Ok thanks, just looked like it as it was next to it. My bad
To be fair it is literally separated by a fence
Yeah it’s very close & confusing when you’re driving up the road coming off argall way. Normally it’s full of 745/1s tho as recently the new stansaid timetable has kicked in requiring now 9/10 trains on the diagrams instead of 4/5. As of the change orient way is pretty much taken over by the 720s for mainly peak hour or for backup incase of any train fault. A decade ago walking on the footbridge. I’d be seeing a huge variety of 321s, 379s, 360s & 90s mk3.
It's full of 745/1s over night and full of 720s between the peaks
Where do the 720s go overnight?
There’s probably a chunk of them stabled at Ilford, Liverpool Street, Colchester, Clacton, Southend and Cambridge overnight. It’s strange when you’re prepping a train in the early hours of the morning at Liverpool Street and there’s no one else there.
They used to stable Class 395's at Eurostar Temple Mills. But yes, Orient Way is at the North End of the Eurostar operation but within a totally seperated area of railway. There are no rail links between them.
And Bishops Stortford, one in Stansted, two in Hertford East (one 10 car), one in Aldersbrook and a few in Harwich International/the sidings next to it (seems to have been in the station instead of the sidings next to it recently). I think that's all
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Does anyone know why this one has gonbe back to Derby.720137
Realtime Trains | 5Q16 1010 Ilford E.M.U.D. to Derby Litchurch Lane | 05/08/2024
Real-time train running information for 5Q16 1010 departure from Ilford E.M.U.D. to Derby Litchurch Lane on 05/08/2024. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
I didn’t see any blue marking tapes on the front or rear cab ends like 720511, 515 has.
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Who knows they may eventually get to the north in a few decades time.
there was a 5q02 test run earlier from Liverpool street but only got as far as chelmsford due to lineside fire at claydon just north of ipswich
Possibly 720140 or 511
Really that’s unusual! possibly the last 4 cars are being constructed still. Did you get the unit number on the seperate end car ?
720534 is at Longsight.
All of it?
From what I’ve been told, yes. (Don’t shoot messenger if it’s only part of it)
wasn't 516 there at one stage
Yep, back up at post #2572 on this thread
