The LNWR summary of services timetable shows the amount of carriages and according to that there’s one round trip of 8 carriages M-F 08.46 from Euston and 11.13 from Crewe.
It's possible to be faster than you want to be at the top of the Lickey-I'll leave that to you to understand what I mean. They're certainly (quite a bit) faster than 323s (although we're mandated to use less power on starting away than a 323-so it'll be rare that you see a 'launch control' start), it's taken drivers some adjustment, in slippery conditions under power they're not the greatest and WMT now uses a lot more sand than they used to, as 730s have an amazing appetite for it.
I mean, aside from riding trains, I’m none the wiser about driving/track conditions.
Have you a link ? Looked on the site and couldn’t see anything showing number of coaches
I looked at the times on this timetable to and from Euston and compared them to the crewe timetable and saw that two services said eight carriages.
You must have been really unlucky, they've been open everytime I've been on them.
Got it now, thx
Another poorly designed train/despatch process/guard office location if the gangway allowing customers to freely move throughout the train is locked out of use a lot of the time!
Especially when the toilets are not the most reliable.
I always found that some 323 units were faster than others, in particular 210, which I’ve clocked reaching 67mph before the summit, subject to GPS accuracy. I think 730s can pretty much hit line speed by the summit, which again is subject to GPS accuracy.
Interesting. I've been able to walk through on most and only ever had two instances where I couldn't.
On my Chase Line trips the toilet not working is a regular occurrence.
Depends on the station, many would not be safe due to curvature/fixtures blocking the view of the PTI. That and it's not really the best option given you've got to then judge what's happening 240m away.
If only they had specced a TM office, alas they were ordered to be DOO and then bodged into the current situation.
Indeed. Though much of this stems from the space-saver not being utilised as it doesn't look like a toilet. Which leads to the universal being used all the time and getting full rather quickly.
Which in a brand new train is unforgivable - putting the tanking pipes below plaform level and generally poor reliability.
Which begs the question why the 5-car 730/0 Cross City order was abandoned. Could they expand them 3-car to 5-car, I wonder?
Not on the/0. There are 2 on a /2 though
I don't think any of the 5 cars were ever planned to be used on the cross city? Rather on services out of Euston
Cyberdyne Systems said:
That's correct, but as far as I'm aware cross city was always planned to only use 3 car sets. The original order of 36 units was specified to allow 6tph operation on the route (16 diagrams) with double sets all day (so 32 units needed out of 36). The coaches in both the 5 and 3 car units are the same length, so a pair of 3 cars has a higher capacity than 5 cars. Also platform lengths are based around 6 cars, so it makes sense to maximise length to fit.
Think you are right, looking at the press releases from some time ago, but I could have sworn the operator was telling people about 5-car sets for cross-city at one point, wouldn't be surprised if the people contracted to do their press releases also got confused.
Gascoigne Wood to Old Dalby.
