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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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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