Recent content by D235 Apapa

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That indicates a long overdue update. The 'legal' (for want of a better word) morning peak has been as above for many, many years, but the evening peak has, and still is, as of today (AFAIK) 1600-1859. It's long been recognised by many that 2000 hours, or thereabouts, is a far more realistic cut...

Very nearly, just been trying to find the pic of it I know I have (somewhere....!), the accompanying notebook says 13th August. I was in a habit of doing various bashes round London either on my own or with one or two mates back then, and SF was a firm favourite of mine, parts of it still having...

The route taken by 2L95 (in the above instant), is a route the signallers will use to their advantage when needs be. However in the day to day plan (engineering works altered plans excepted) this route has not normally been planned on paper for outbound trains heading to the DMF, for a couple of...

The pro fixed (long) formation argument may sometimes be based on a need for good performance/less risk, by that I mean no planned detaches/attaches etc., and therefore less risk if the latter goes pear shaped, either by unit fault or crew displacement. At Waterloo it would also free up a small...

Some of the changes to the timetable, when it comes in, will effect unit utilisation as hinted at elsewhere. Also the number of maintenance spares will complicate things for anyone guessing in advance. Historically this has usually been around 5% of each fleet type, but can vary depending on...

Taking the suburban fleet on its own, the present level of 455 usage is, I believe quite low (in numbers) as there was originally a plan to implement four additional peak services on the Windsor side (using 8 units in total) which was postponed or whatever, so there is (I presume?) quite a bit...

That sounds about right. I was North of the border back then, and we had numerous large logo type 3's on the Oban/Mallaig & Kyle runs. Remember specifically '425 turning up at Fort 'Bill' one day, as it was the only member of the class I hadn't seen in it's old (proper) guise, as.....292, my...

In short, in this instance, you can't, until such time as enough stock IS available to cover service, plus the associated level of spare units for maintenance etc, and much will also depend on training people on the Aventras, not only train crew, but fitters, depot drivers, not forgetting the...

I would have to disagree with the "trivial" above. Whilst I have no detailed knowledge of the 150's, no such modifications are ever that straightforward. At the time the 456's were transferred from Southern to SWT, there was belief in some quarters that they could go to work with SWT 455's from...

Remember walking round 30A one day back in the mists of time, to be confronted by said loco having literally just been moved outside the paint shop. Was certainly an eye opener at the time, and seemed to suit the 56's I thought.

Good point, well spotted. Glad someone is awake, unlike me!!!! How much simpler it will all be if SWR get all the suburban running with same type 10 cars everywhere!

Oops, was still typing when you posted!

The last I heard 10 car 455/456 formations must have a maximum of three sections (ie: no corridor connection between each, so the driver in one part, guard in another, and the third no member of staff). This did initially cause some concerns, but was eventually agreed to by all concerned...

Reminds me of that time (a few years ago.....!) when the Southern's Merchant Navy's were all withdrawn temporarily as a precaution (axle fault, I think???, was found on one), which needed an input of Black 5's, V2's, even the odd Brittania I believe amongst others just to cover the service...