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Coventry works will include stabling/tanking and so will Northampton. Maintanance is carried out at Bletchley.

Coventry is having further works for stabling more Class 730/0 units. This will free up space elsewhere to stable units. Northampton was being looked at for stabling more units, which would be the green ones.......

Currently it's on hold, Coventry Carriage is having works done to stable units there

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'...

No, not as far as I am aware, I was thinking aloud.....

Maybe it's something to do with the Class 93?

WMT have fitters and cleaners at Leamington for at least part of the night.

90mph isn't ECO, ECO is an operating mode which is to do with gear changes & engine revs - if I remember correctly. Unit operational modes are: ECO = Economic NOR = Normal PW = Power SPW = Super Power As for the 90mph limit being in place still, depends on the timings as the 196 is quite...

No, WMR 196s are limited to 90mph and are set up to run in 'ECO' mode as there are other operational modes available.

WMR Class 196s are limited to 90mph

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I believe it was going to have an upgrade in line speed to 90mph (I think) probably around 10 years ago. I think there was too much work to be done to the trackbed, as allegedly it's very difficult to maintain, possibly due to being clay. I believe that's what I was told a 'little' while ago.

The units that I was on about were the ones in platform 4 & 5 as stated in my post

Hate to say it again, see post #22

Again, post #22, the information was there since Sunday