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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

Siemens Staines

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NSEWonderer said:
Yep. Disgusting behavior by the perpetrator
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Unsurprisingly 701021 has been swapped out this afternoon and its evening peak diagram 2D50 1559 Guildford to London Waterloo is currently allocated a 4-car 450 and shown as 4v10 on journeycheck.
 
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NSEWonderer said:
Yep. Disgusting behavior by the perpetrator
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Regrettably nothing new. In my time in signalling at CJ, our box was targetted by someone on the Grant Road estate (Windsor side), and came in to work one morning to find a bullet/air rifle pellet hole in the glass!

No wonder modern panels have bullet proof glass fitted.
 
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701 availability looks to be improving. For only the second time they have hit 48 in service simultaneously this morning. I wonder how long it will be until they reach 50? Todays remaining three booked 701 diagrams are covered by two pairs of 458/4 (2R90 etc and 2U08 etc) and one pair of 450 (2J92).
 
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Peter Sarf said:
Unusual for 0V71 to be cancelled as it was manually activated.

However there is now a VSTP light loco 0J71 from Soho to Bicester later today (13/07/2026). Manually activated probably at the same time it was entered and 0V71 was cancelled (just before departure). Plenty of time of course for 0J71 to be cancelled though !.


I am wondering what loco the move tomorrow will bring from Bicester to Wimbedon, Here is that actual 5Q87 move.


EDIT 12:30

The loco is probably whatever arrived at Soho from Derby LL on this ECS.


EDIT above was 37510 + 730202.
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The actual 5Q87 delivery (below) has now been cancelled.

 
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Back down to 46 701s in service this morning with three pairs of 458/4, one pair of 450 and one cancelled/4-450 covering the five missing diagrams.
 
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Siemens Staines said:
Back down to 46 701s in service this morning with three pairs of 458/4, one pair of 450 and one cancelled/4-450 covering the five missing diagrams.
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Thanks. That’s 9/55 or 16% supposedly in passenger service which can’t be used. Not great.
 
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Big Jumby 74 said:
Regrettably nothing new. In my time in signalling at CJ, our box was targetted by someone on the Grant Road estate (Windsor side), and came in to work one morning to find a bullet/air rifle pellet hole in the glass!

No wonder modern panels have bullet proof glass fitted.
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I got off a train at Allerton in the late 80s to be shot at (and hit) by a couple of idiots with air rifles, a couple of other passengers suffered the same.

We had to jump back on the train as there was nowhere safe to go.

Thankfully I was wearing thick jeans and a leather jacket - still hurt and I had a lump the size of an egg on my leg. A lady that was hit was not so lucky and had to go to hospital.

Roy
 
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A slight improvement today with 47 of the 51 diagrams operated by 701s. The shortfall made up by three pairs of 458/4 and one pair of 450. Of the eight 701s not in passenger service this morning, four were in use yesterday. One of the four was 701004 which was allocated to 2H08 this morning but that was cancelled and the diagram resumed later with 701030.
 
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I wonder if these availability issues will prevent the final two cascades of 701-450-458/4s taking place. I gather they were planned for next Monday (20 July) and the one after (27 July) so that all 458/4s were withdrawn from scheduled services on the Windsors by the end of July.
 
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Surely with Summer holidays in effect, you can pick and choose enough mainline services to be 8/9v10v12 to give you 6 weeks grace.
 
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701001 - In Passenger Service (2 Mar 26)
701002 - In Passenger Service (18 May 26)
701003 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701004 - In Passenger Service (10 Jul 26)
701005 - In Passenger Service (27 Aug 25)
701006 - In Passenger Service (6 Mar 26)
701007 - In Passenger Service (24 Feb 26)
701008 - In Passenger Service (31 Mar 26)
701009 - In Passenger Service (17 Oct 25)
701010 - In Passenger Service (22 Dec 25)
701011 - In Passenger Service (26 Feb 26)
701012 - In Passenger Service (21 Jul 25)
701013 - In Passenger Service (28 Jul 25)
701014 - In Passenger Service 9 Jun 26)
701015 - Training duties
701016 - In Passenger Service (4 Jun 26)
701017 - In Passenger Service (25 Nov 24)
701018 - In Passenger Service (6 Jul 25)
701019 - In Passenger Service (18 Apr 26)
701020 - In Passenger Service (8 Oct 25)
701021 - In Passenger Service (15 Sep 25)
701022 - In Passenger Service (9 Feb 26)
701023 - In Passenger Service (7 Apr 26)
701024 - Training duties
701025 - In Passenger Service (24 Jun 25)
701026 - In Passenger Service (3 Nov 25)
701027 - In Passenger Service (29 Jun 26)
701028 - Training duties
701029 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701030 - In Passenger Service (9 Dec 25)
701031 - In Passenger Service (28 Oct 24)
701032 - In Passenger Service (15 May 26)
701033 - In Passenger Service (26 Nov 25)
701034 - In Passenger Service (18 Mar 25)
701035 - In Passenger Service (28 May 25)
701036 - In Passenger Service (7 Mar 24)
701037 - In Passenger Service (9 Jan 24)
701038 - In Passenger Service (5 Feb 26)
701039 - In Passenger Service (10 Jan 24)
701040 - In Passenger Service (15 Jun 26)
701041 - In Passenger Service (17 Jun 25)
701042 - In Passenger Service (21 May 25)
701043 - In Passenger Service (16 Jan 24)
701044 - In Passenger Service (5 Feb 25)
701045 - In Passenger Service (10 Apr 26)
701046 - In Passenger Service (17 Mar 25)
701047 - In Passenger Service (31 Dec 25)
701048 - In Passenger Service (8 Nov 25)
701049 - In Passenger Service (20 Mar 26)
701050 - In Passenger Service (17 Nov 25)
701051 - In Passenger Service (14 Jul 25)
701052 - In Passenger Service (23 Dec 25)
701053 - In Passenger Service (26 Aug 25)
701054 - In Passenger Service (3 Jan 26)
701055 - In Passenger Service (6 May 26)
701056 - In Passenger Service (8 Sep 25)
701057 - In Passenger Service (13 Aug 25)
701058 - In Passenger Service (11 Aug 25)
701059 - In Passenger Service (5 Dec 25)
701060 - In Passenger Service (1 Nov 25)

In Passenger Service: 55/60
Training duties: 3/60 (028 briefly served passengers before training duties)
SWR preparing for passenger service: 2/60


701501 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701502 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701503 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701504 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701505 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701506 - Stored at Bicester
701507 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701508 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701509 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701510 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701511 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701512 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701513 - Stored at Bicester
701514 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701515 - Stored at Bicester
701516 - Stored at Bicester
701517 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701518 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701519 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701520 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701521 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701522 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701523 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701524 - Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane
701525 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701526 - Stored at Bicester
701527 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701528 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701529 - SWR preparing for passenger service
701530 - Stored at Bicester

In Passenger Service: 0/30
SWR preparing for passenger service: 16/30
Stored at Derby Litchurch Lane: 8/30
Stored at Bicester 6/30
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16 five car units now out of storage and on SWR's turf. 6 remain at Bicester and 8 at Derby.

Still no idea when the first ones will enter passenger service!
 
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WWTownEnth said:
I wonder if these availability issues will prevent the final two cascades of 701-450-458/4s taking place
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The planned cascades (on paper) will, I would suggest go ahead date wise as planned. It just means the Fleet Engineering side (ref bb21's comment an hour ago) will just be playing catch up, and their own Fleet controller(s) will be substituting non 701 units as required on a day by day basis.
 
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WWTownEnth said:
16 five car units now out of storage and on SWR's turf. 6 remain at Bicester and 8 at Derby.

Still no idea when the first ones will enter passenger service!
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Apparently 5 cars still nowhere close to entering service. Early next year is still being talked about
 
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Very likely most won't be needed until any revised/enhanced service commences, and assuming any such service puts things back to pre covid levels, all 5 cars will be required - just for the benefit of any doubting Thomas's!
 
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Dropped back down to 46 701s in passenger service this morning. As per yesterday, four diagrams are covered by three pairs of 458 and one pair of 450. The 51st morning diagram is FX (2J92).
 
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Siemens Staines said:
Dropped back down to 46 701s in passenger service this morning. As per yesterday, four diagrams are covered by three pairs of 458 and one pair of 450. The 51st morning diagram is FX (2J92).
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Sorry but I’ve lost count……is the 51st diagram a new one starting next week?
 
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WWTownEnth said:
Sorry but I’ve lost count……is the 51st diagram a new one starting next week?
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No, 51 is how many that there should have been this week. I admit that it is quite difficult to keep track when there has been this discrepancy between the number of booked diagrams and the number of units actually operating on them, that has slowly widened over the last month. If there is a new diagram next week, then it will be 52.
 
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Siemens Staines said:
No, 51 is how many that there should have been this week. I admit that it is quite difficult to keep track when there has been this discrepancy between the number of booked diagrams and the number of units actually operating on them, that has slowly widened over the last month. If there is a new diagram next week, then it will be 52.
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Thanks for explaining. Usually someone is able to report on the STPs for next week by now but no one’s done so yet for this coming Monday.
 
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No, but it’s either been there for weeks or there’s a different one there every week/day/other interval of choice. I see it regularly.
 
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