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The reason Swt still have guards goes back to an old agreement about 455 coupling.

johnco. sorry to be pain but swt were dealing with about 100,000 pax that day who had conviently ignored the masses of if you do not need to travel then dont information given out by not just the railways but the government. there was a train of fire at berrylands. lack of information problem...

swt seem to have the policy ofbfueling almost every last train daily.

almost allmodern units have some sort of buffer system underneath the smooth fronts. just in case collisions happen

i think the argument is this. the incident could still be investigated. managers could be swayed by what you post meaning the driver may not get a fair hearing. maybes not in this instance but in others. secondly everyone of you that has said its ok to name and shame the driver. from nwo on in...

you must remeber that these particular 170s wereordered by swt with the intention of just rolling round the local southampton sailsbury area with the odd trip to the big smoke. so why waste money ordering long range tanks when the short range is good enough for what they will be used on?

depends entirely on the type of unit and fuel tanks it has fitted. your talking roughly 1500 miles at aguess. although i believe ftpe 170s can just mange 485 miles!