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It says in the Alstom press release that it’s 22x 5-car units.

Yeah that seems ridiculous too. What a waste of an unit.

Just been looking at the changes for East Linton and Dunbar. The increased TPE services are welcome but what’s the point in the ScotRail services when all they do is follow less than 10 mins behind the TPE services? Why can’t they run in the alternate hours that the TPE services don’t. Example...

It was a very busy 6-car set on Tuesday night when I was on it back to Stalybridge.

Did they have any form of queue separation by destination? I’m often impressed by how they manage the people at Haymarket after a large event has ended at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

Their MD has posted pics of their first train with the new seat coverings on LinkedIn...

Only one ScotRail Dunbar service per day which means East Linton only has its six TPE services per day (to Edinburgh) with some huge gaps. Not ideal at all.

802213 is now named “Unity” with Pride branding. I’m sure I’ve seen some other named units over and above the castles stated above too.

Anecdotal I know but from what I saw last week when I was up there is that the ScotRail services are popular given TPE’s reliability problems. I used the 1108 a number of times to get into Edinburgh and there was always a large number of people on the platform. I did use a TPE to get home one...

Thanks and yes it was Palace of Holyroodhouse I saw at Stalybridge the other week.

The TPE 802s appear to all be being named after castles. For example 802210 was named Hailes Castle at the opening of East Linton station last week and I’ve seen others. Does anyone have a list of the current names on each unit?

802210 named Hailes Castle to celebrate opening of station. https://mediacentre.tpexpress.co.uk/news/tpe-gives-newly-named-hailes-castle-train-a-scottish-welcome-at-opening-of-east-linton-station

A big crowd and lots of cheering when the train arrived and departed. Great turn out from the people of East Linton. Fantastic.

I think the first Edinburgh bound train is around 1108 and this will be the one with the fanfare. The local school kids are doing something for the opening too. The first train will actually be the 1039 to Dunbar (1010 from Edinburgh) though or so I’m led to believe. Full timetable from the...

Aren't there fewer trains on the first day? Is it because there is some kind of event for the opening of the station to meet the first Edinburgh bound train?