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Is there any news on when Ardrossan will get the next batch of EVs to become fully EV as part of ScotZeb3

How’s the 23 v X19 been going?

Any word on how much it’s costing the council? Seems to be hidden in committee papers

Sorry for ignorance but what did the 2 elements of switch over achieve in actual speed increases

Embers can achieve it so would have expected them to be fine Surely will be used more soon if rumours true of Kings getting more citylink work

Why does the yutongs on Aberdeen route need a charge at Glasgow - surely they could do a round trip and charge only at Aberdeen? Surprised Citylink haven’t got more operators to consider EVs

Do we know where the coaches from X56 are headed from next week?

Does these changes incorporate the EV introduction and then run them more into the evening?

So Monday go live?? What routes we expecting

Shunters and movements into and out of craigentinny The amount of driver requirements for shunt moves alongside the actual shunters is crazy Whilst also considerably most of the delays occur due to the time and complex split and connections so will save delay costs

If top and tail both sleepers then would save issues at Carstairs and also Edinburgh. Shunts from Euston would be easier aswell. If did that then one could go round the sub and then head to Inverness or Fort William and then only need 1 loco to join. That would probably be a massive cost saving

With the X19 now based at WCM, have advertising on the vehicles stopped and metro newspapers be removed? Looks to be a few vehicles running with no adverts or old ones that have been up for ages

Is the noted speed increase the only improvement?

If going to Abroath for the X7, I would imagine that these will be tri axle yutongs and be charged during the layover at Dundee to keep them all day. 7 for a requirement (currently) of 6 might allow some swapping or will we see Dundee based workings also introduced since the recent licence...

Currently have fleet of 25 for 19 diagrams but presume they never actually achieve this. Slightly off topic but will the upgrades and better reliability near enough ensure full coverage on GLQ/EDB - ABD/INV routes and release 158/170s for capacity