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With Brush at loughbrough shutting its doors very soon and only 1 unit left to do for rogs think its safe to say the other units will not be converted

769503 ROG Conversion work yet to start 769504 ROG Conversion work yet to start 769505 ROG Conversion work yet to start 769506 ROG Conversion work yet to start 769507 ROG Conversion work yet to start 769508 ROG Conversion work yet to start 769509...

no it did some diesel mode testing today

Already been done on the tfw units but by all accounts its not much better than the cab cool system

From what i know a fair amount of damage to 946, it will be repaired of cause and sent back out in due course,there are other units ready to come to Reading but are being held this may release another one onto depot sooner edited original post but facts are facts

as far as i know the unit was not cleared beyond maidenhead but was sent to slough by xxx the unit clipped something on the way into slough(poss ballast) and on the road back towards maidenhead it hit something and removed all its shoes on one side causing quite alot of damage to the unit...

769946 running tomorrow

AWS issue so returned to depot

funny they seem to be working fine

Yes single engined

Not on this run overhead only

The 7699s have a APS Unit instead of the MA the AC works off the APS not the traction supply

002 will be the first to have ac fitted which i believe will be next week

The bus voltage is slightly lower than compared to it being on the wire or third rail

No the units are quite capable at idle to power everthing they have on them But the heaters do lack a bit of oooph untill the Bus line comes up

The compressor is powered from the MA set and is not tied into the Bus lines only the traction /Flex ties directly to the Bus The fans are inverter driven from the flex side on the engine rafts and have no mechanical coupling

No engine braking or regen, engine revs drop with speed below 5mph to idle conditions above 5mph engine speeds increase to suit demand but have to have a raised "Traction idle" so that the engine power is avalible if the load onto the alternator increases which the system does not know untill...

GWR Units are being moved to Nemesis before Reading at the moment

007 had a 007 had a door interlock issue ,006 had fuel quality issues

They had no overhaul at Wabtec just the flex conversion