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Well, it has been ages since I picked up my laptop and made a post on here - perhaps it’s simply because I come from a Railway family or perhaps it’s that since 2002 I have worked on several Bombardier UK rolling stock projects at various depots and I happen to personally know a lot of the 1200...

m8internet is quite right about the conversion being more than just interiors and paint - Although the 'shells and chassis' are more or less the same, it remains that Mk3 LHCS is very different to HST stock, there are the extra brake requirements and conversion to 3-phase, the target time of 5...

In the main you can turn a Mk3 around in a week, we used to do it regularly at Derby on the 'One' Anglia refurbs (similar to the GC Mk3's but without bogie conversion, elec DC to AC conversion and Buffer removals) and also on the FGW Mk3s. The thing that will let the GC Mk3s down is that the...

GC will struggle to find staff willing to give up jobs and join them from other TOCs, especially as they haven't started 'trading' as yet. I do sympathise for them on that score, so they would naturally have to take on staff from non-rail backgrounds. I guess its up to them what tests they use...

37 - thanks for clearing up the 'who-did-what' on the EWS Company Train. To clarify my earlier posts, i'm not suggesting anyone is involved in foul play etc. or anything 'fishy' as such, but at the end of the day the services aren't being run for the people that want them and the fact remains...

I sympathise with the GCR staff too, well outside of engineering anyway!

Association of Locomotive ENGINEERS and footplatemen ring a bell? You should be able to fix it yourself!! Only joking Path, my Dad was a Driver and I've had to propel a few units myself, so respect to you for that - I just think the whole GCR thing has gone pear-shaped and its unfair to the...

Pathfinder, Perhaps you are confusing a Fleet Engineer (bloke at top - not much clue of day to day problems on refurbs and seeking limelight) with Depot Engineer (bloke fed up with delays on-site thats doing refurb work) - this means - Mr Shipley will be more focussed on 'new build' projects for...

Pathfinder sir, I hope GC staff are reading with interest - As they are a 'new' TOC and freshmen to 'the game' they should really have what we in the trade call an 'on-site resident engineer', these engineers are posted by FGW, One Anglia or whoever's getting the stock built at the depot that's...

Sir Clag - I suspect you are right in what you write about Marcroft on the Exec Train, but as you say there is a conflict of interest there, we were told EWS would not favour Marcroft in any dealing but ESG has now come on the scene so read into that what you will. Approval for the route is one...

37402, the funny thing is that no-one mentioned Bogies as a problem at Marcroft - I'm not sure of the Operational deal struck, but you could run with a 110mph restriction in place on the Power Cars - a bit like Pendolinos and Voyagers having a higher design speed than they actually do - I know...

Happy to answer all questions with the information I have been given & gathered. I hope you're all sitting comfortably? good, I'll begin :-) You probably all know this but Marcroft/ESG 'won' the original contract to refurb the 18 Mk3 coaches, with Marcroft as the 'lead' contractor, this...

The black livery looks good from a distance, but when up close you can see the ripples in the bodysides that billions of miles of track torture has put on these babies. Unfortunately black is probably one of the best colours to show this up. IMHO internally the finished product looks similar...