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175111 arrived at Laira around an hour ago 5V84 1154 Wolverton Centre Sidings to Laira T.& R.S.M.D. Seen here en route on the Frome avoiding line 175111 5V84 20/03/26 Frome Avoider Good to see this one back in action as from memory it became a bit of a Christmas Tree at Longsight.

003/011 and 009 out on the training turns today. These runs seem to have run without hitch over the last week or so? 001/002/003/007/009 and 011 seem to be performing OK, but I think 007 hasn't had the mods at Wolverton? Anyway....hopefully with all these training runs and gained knowledge we...

001/007 and 002 out for pretty much the full day today. 002 has already been to Penzance from Plymouth, is then returning to Par and Newquay 5Z21 0622 Plymouth to Newquay heading back to Plymouth 5Z22 1219 Newquay to Plymouth before revisiting Newquay 5Z23 1423 Plymouth to Par and heading back...

001 and 007 out on training/test this morning 5Z13 0751 Plymouth to Plymouth seemingly successfully 001 then on the 1340 Plymouth to Penzance and return 2C26 1340 Plymouth to Penzance 007 looks to be following it on another test 5Z23 1401 Plymouth to Plymouth to Par and back followed by...

It has to be affiliated to and aligned with GBR as TfW provides services both into and wholly within England. Sure there will be room for T Network alongside national standard tickets just as TfL and the Bee Network etc operate. Don’t think anyone expects whatever GBR ends up being to absorb...

Feel like this 175 cascade is turning into a model exercise in how not to do it. Stock stored outside for too long, following substandard maintenance in the last year or so of their TfW lives leading to all sorts of issues getting them match fit. Then when the first units are being used - be...

The issues with the maintenance have been discussed over and over. CAF didn’t maintain them properly which led to the fires. When Alstom maintained them there were few issues. There needs to be a responsibility for members not to post speculation like this. A potential customer might read this...

For the people speculating as to the time taken for the Renfe service to hit the Iryo one it was 20 seconds according to the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye22ljxw4o so not enough to be able any sort of meaningful action. We don't know, but it's highly possible that the driver of the...

RTT showing the 1321 (805008 and 805009) and 1522 (805003) Carlisle to Preston as cancelled?

Have a Club Avanti 1st class ticket to use by April and thought I'd take my other half to London next month, but Avanti only doing the Rail Sale in standard. Really good availability Chester to London in standard for £47 return, but £280 for 1st is the best on offer. Do I use my 1st class and...

Have just fallen foul of the Club Avanti "can only have two journeys in a day" secret rule. Three of us travelled from Chester to London return and came back four days later, but only two credits. Up there with Penrith to Warrington sometimes being credited, sometimes not. The 10% off advance...

Great to see the first 175 in revenue service today. Currently sat on a 197 from Chester to Manchester and boy do we miss them. Excellent unit.

Exactly this. Things go wrong and I think everyone understands that. The issue is simply that when it does (and it does around once a week in Winter) there is no pro-active solution - have posted elsewhere about the random ticket acceptance which allows those in Preston and Wigan to reach...

Shamelessly pinched from tonight's Avanti FB

I know Avanti file providing any semblance of a service north of Preston in the “too hard” section the minute there is any sort of disruption, but it’s getting to be a regular dereliction of duty. This afternoon there has been a power failure between Lancaster and Oxenholme and they have...

There isn’t any need for an internal refresh on these units - TFW did one only about 18 months before they stopped using them. TFW refurbs 175s from 2022

I know they are under pressure, but some of the Avanti X advice being given out is a bit wide of the mark - telling people not to travel to Blackpool and one lady trying to get to Lancaster from London being given the "Do Not Travel" advice as if it were a definitive verb (she was actually...

I was also on that train travelling from Penrith to Warrington and on to Chester. Did you notice the announcement the TM who was delayed and took over at Preston made telling people quite strongly not to buy new tickets as the train was being sent directly through the Trent Valley skipping all...

Yeah there seems to be water either side! It’s a new tunnel from Exeter maybe. Problem is with AI it seems to start the image again from scratch if you ask for one thing to be changed.

If someone had a little more faith in the 50s….