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    Chiltern MK5s Starting 2026 (non speculative updates thread)

    37800 plus CH08 at Eastleigh this evening forming 5Q86 09.27 Longsight-Eastleigh Works.This just leaves CH01 at Wolverton Works to come south.
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    Chiltern MK5s Starting 2026 (non speculative updates thread)

    5Q86 on the system for tomorrow .Class 37 plus a rake of stock from Long Marston.Rake 6 or 9?
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    Chiltern MK5s Starting 2026 (non speculative updates thread)

    Two 5Q86 shown on the system for today. Should be 68022 plus CH 12.Do who know the correct running times please?
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    Chiltern MK5s Starting 2026 (non speculative updates thread)

    Much obliged Peter.
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    Chiltern MK5s Starting 2026 (non speculative updates thread)

    Do we know which rake is on 5Q86 today please ?
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    Chiltern MK5s Starting 2026 (non speculative updates thread)

    68031 taken by 37884 from Eastleigh Works to Wembley 0H72 25 September.
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Coupling-up problems I believe.
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    Island Line Class 484 Reliability

    Heritage railways would seem better run ...now there's a thought. Southern Vectis must be loving all this incompetance.The line is less than 10 miles long yet operationally seems to be more complex to resolve than any other line in England. Should have made it a dedicated bus way.Thank goodness...
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    I guess SWR cares little about passenger numbers now that it just runs a contract? Who is making the rolling stock policy these days? I assume DfT ? It all makes BR look very slick and cost effective. The freight operators seem much more cost aware.Imagine one buying 1000 new wagons then taking...
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    Sorry,but why are Porterbrook presumably funding work on these units if they are not all likely to be used,but merely stored? Hmmm...if an open access operator wanted to start a rivel service,say Southampton to Waterloo,the 458s might be ideal ? Remember the threatened rival service on that...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    OOLR...might as well get it done given how much Govt. money is already supporting this saga.Storing almost the whole fleet of 90 units built to replace an existing whole fleet of trains makes Connex look like it was well run...and we all know what happenend to them ! Oh,and add in refurbishing...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Random thought.If the Waterloo-Reading route was to become a TfL controlled service,could they recruit and train new drivers for the 701s under new terms and conditions,and just by-pass the stalemate? I presume ASLEF members are quite happy to drive similar units eslewhere. Failing that,remove...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Ayone know if 058/9/60 have been built yet?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    I presume full width cabs as the 707 and 701s feature must be much nicer and more spacious for drivers?
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    So,we have had... the 442s refurbished then binned,virtually a whole fleet of 701 built with just a couple in use in the builds' fourth year,and now on-going refubishment of the 458s, which it seems may or may not get used. Someone keeps pouring water in a bucket full of holes it seems...
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