They haven't reached the dizzy height of 'semi' recently; cancelled 4 days out of 5 last week.
Are 1D01 and 1P22 always being cancelled simply because they don’t have enough units to allow for 10-car operations, and these services rely on it?
Pretty much. It's the least worst decision because it inconveniences the least amount of people and results in the least amount of cancellations
I’m sure the people relying on these services disagree though, but that’d happen no matter what services are canned.
And 1D01 then forms the NOT - STP via Melton / Corby so knock on affects all around unless a spare unit can be found at Etches Park to do it which is highly unlikely or i suppose the original service would have gone ecs to Kettering in the first place.
Not sure when 004 is supposed to leave as it should have done a while back now
Well, 004 had a schedule for today (5R61) but it didn’t leave and was canned for PL - Planned not to run.
Isn't it being reduced to 6 (not 5)?
What exactly happened to 007?
Yes but a handful of the 222s were sent to places as 5 cars instead of the 7
Failed in the middle of the line between Bedford and Kettering on a passenger service on Feb 1, had to detrain in situ and return to depot, never returned since.
Which ones would they be then?
I think it’s just for convenience, EMR send a unit out with 7, a unit out with 6, then whoever is refurbing the units take one from the 7 and put it in he 5 in the factory/workshop. Means there’s no spare carriages left in the workshops taking up space, and maybe EMR can do something with any spares (what idk though)
The future plans are mentioned in post #321 of this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/first-rail-stirling-lumo-rolling-stock.283347/page-11, but for now I believe 005 and 002 are 5 cars, and maybe 001 (however with that being painted, it may be 6 by now). The rest are 7.
001, 002 & 003 left EMR as 7 car units. 005 left as a 5 car unit. They have all left in the same formation that they operated for EMR in. 004 will do the same.
Yes. I am aware of that incident. It was never made clear exactly what the fault was that required evacuation. Now it is said that there are underfloor and electrical repairs which suggests a major failure somewhere, possibly a thermal event? An issue with the generator unit or traction electrical equipment perhaps?
002 is as a 5-car unit at the moment, just watched it pass Nuneaton on the cameras, tried a screenshot:
According to rtt, 007 is back in service over 2 months after the Bedford fault.
Yes, the only exception is the one diagram that's been suspended since around September, this would provide another unit to allow 0630 SHF-STP, and 1732 STP-SHF to operate as a double.
Just gone through Leicester. Seemed like only on 2 or 3 engines heading to Etches Park inevitably.
After so much time out of action, this should have been like a new unit. There was more than enough time to thoroughly fettle up the unit and fix all the faults. What is going wrong? These engines are usually reliable units.
Sometimes when you try and fix a fault, the acid test as to whether it has worked is only once it enters an in traffic environment, unfortunately.
