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    Pendolino lengthening

    Appears to be the service pattern. Neither the 16.04 or the 17.04 stop at Stoke and there's not that many 11 car sets out yet. Only 155 and 156 to my knowledge.
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    Pendolino lengthening

    If 390156 finishes the diagram it will work 5G99 from Piccadilly to Oxley arriving around 23.30
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    Discretion when railcard is forgotten

    Zero tolerance. You forget then you pay. The emphasis is on you as the passenger.
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    Pendolino lengthening

    057 is due to be delivered in the first week of April to enter service at the beginning of June, the next four pairs of extra vehicles are due in around three weeks time.
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    Pendolino testing - ECML

    It ran using East Coasts safety case, VT don't having running rights on the east coast.
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    Pendolino testing - ECML

    TASS / TILT will be isolated. The ECML has a lot of 125 PS speeds, the WCML only has 125 at EPS speeds.
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    Pendolino testing - ECML

    That's fine if you're a member of WNXX and can read it, not so good if you're not ! What does it actually say ?
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    Twin Pendolino Testing This Week

    Impractical from an operational point of view, and how does it depart its station of origin ? nowhere can platform an 18 coach pendo.
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    70018 broken - how bad ?

    No doubt it'll have a warranty repair. Hardly the end of the world !
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    25KV OLE diagrams & support info ?

    These 3rd year E&EE students you talk about, did they grasp the CONCEPT of basic spelling ?:lol:
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    Pendelino speed indicator

    It just shows braking. There is a digital speedo reading available on the TMS as a back up to the analogue display.
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    Pendolino lengthening

    My post No 15 within this thread, taken from the VT intranet, explains how the process will happen.
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    Pendolino lengthening

    F & U so an 11 car set will be :- A, B, C, D, E, F, U, G, H, J, K
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    Pendolino lengthening

    Longsight Depot is using set 390012 to integrate the displaced 10/11 car vehicles from new train 390055. This will enable Alstom engineers to perfect their integration plan and highlight any potential engineering issues, which can be resolved before integration proper starts in April. It also...
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    Where is 90046 now?

    It was moved to Wembley at 35 mph max sandwiched between two VT 57s.
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    BBC 31/1/12: Man killed at Barlaston level crossing

    What a load of bo****ks ! what next ? footpaths shouldn't be allowed at the sides of roads in case some clown decides to step off it and gets hit by a car ? When will this world come to its senses and stop trying to protect these clowns from themselves ? If you play in the road you...
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    VT 57s

    It's possibly true to say that they are not looked after as well as they could be because they are not top of the priority list, and also true to say that had this not have been a privatised railway the loco's would have received a works overhaul by now. You only have to look back a few years...
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    VT new Pendolino carriages can't pass on adjacent tracks!

    I've heard some bo****ks in my time but this gave me a belly laugh. 054 and 055 were side by side at Oxley one morning last week. It is as has been said already, they are on different insurance from the rest of the fleet, a situation which will be put right in April when the new insurance...

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