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Because that was what was put forward by those in higher places originally? No more operationally a nightmare than running a tiny fleet of single car 153's that need their own paths and crews, with tiny seating capacity (presumably). Certainly I agree with not having them plonked in the middle...

The 156’s did have this, unfortunately this usually meant once they set off on the WHL the toilets usually dumped square onto the points...lovely. All now have retention tanks thankfully

Strange they are not part of the briefing for ScotRail drivers, part of the standard signalling system. Iirc the ‘T’ buttons on the panel are for over length trains too but obviously that’s only for the signallers. Ben is correct that the fourth is the RA. They are used fairly rarely, usually...

Mk3/2’s don’t have dellners.......

I do agree that a ‘thunderbird’ is wasteful but any spare locos should be fuelled up wherever possible. It’s ok on anything that has a long range but one of the very few shortcomings on a 73 is the range. This wouldn’t purely be for WHL standby but any failure off the wires of a GBRF hauled...

Thanks for the reply, I think that’s a bit short sighted especially for failures on single line, but hey ho.

Of course, until the mk5 coaches land on the WHL, GBRF do have a 66 on hand at Fort William during the nights of sun, tues, thurs and sat that could help. Another sods law that it was a day the bulks had ran south in the morning. I would guess the mk5 would maybe have an emergency coupler that...

Apologies, the 37 question was rhetorical, I didn’t make that very clear though. Thank you for a most interesting post, love to read things like that.

How did 37’s manage in days of yore? The 73’s are generally regarded by drivers who have now had a good few years of experience with them as ‘being able to skin a 37’ Of course a full complement of working Traction Motors does help.

Rubbish, they are adequately powered for the job they are tasked with. It was a failure of the loco yes, as has happened with the overpowered, speed restricted class 67’s in the past.

Fitter now on site, hopefully that should get it moving fairly quickly.

There will be several worksites during the closure but this could well be one, both viaducts are getting full refurbishment so guess the decks would likely be done during the closure with paint and metalwork being done in the same style as loch awe is currently. Would still like to see the...

Could well be wholly to blame but purely blaming Wabtec is the easy option, there will be many many factors in a project this size that can cause delays.....are they all down to Wabtec? I don’t know so can’t say one way or another. Unfortunately as a whole, the railway rarely appears to get big...

Sorry, my post wasn't clear. I know that Wabtec are only doing the trailers but meant as they (Wabtec) appear to at least be partly to blame for the late delivery of the HST's, might they have said as compensation they would pay for the reliability mods to be carried out (by Brush) or the...

A thought on the reliability fixes, they obviously should have been done from the outset but I wonder if this could be the 'compensation' for the very late delivery? As I don't think there was mention of anything of that ilk happening till the project was seriously overrunning. That makes me...

Right so your saying, if there was space it would happen between airline??? So if say, easyJet has no space then you accept it wouldn’t happen? Tbh that sound pretty similar to the railway, generally if there is space operators will accept other operators passengers during disruption, if they...

Had heard word it may terminate at Crianlarich during those works. I assume as it’s supposed to be the new stock by then it may give greater issues going right through to Oban as done previously??

I wouldn’t like to guess how old Charlie is, looked the same age for years lol.

Charlie Sinclair has been retired a long time now, I think it can’t have been too much after that show. Still alive and pottering about though. The sprinters were an obvious cost cutting exercise and they do depress me. Drivers do like the fact they are simple and generally keep on going...

Yep, that last paragraph is waffle. Unfortunately that then makes the rest of the info dubious in its reliability.