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Nothing at all to do with Northern wanting rid of a maintenance liability?

Also not helped by the indecision on what to actually do with the 350/2s before going to Northern. Will be interesting to see what actually does happen before they find their new home.

The cooling systems were very much shoehorned in

It doesn’t. It lines the pockets of the banks taking the “risk”.

When platform extensions are of the minimum length to do what’s needed this time rather than spending a marginal extra amount to take them to a notional “sensible” length during lengthening projects. Yes. Under the guise of “value engineering” tiny savings will be made on a job needing a full...

And yet no-one is rushing to retrofit batteries to old EMUs to take advantage of this rapidly improving technology. After the turntide batteries on the 802 which may or may not still be fitted (I'm no longer in position to give a... <insert your own words here>), and numerous ideas for...

I feel that I need to just quote my own posts on this matter now.

It’s not Porterbrook’s scepticism. It’s also not the country’s problem if a private company made a business decision to price their leases in such a way that it was cheaper to raise debt for new assets than to retain those already leased.

How many times does one need to repeat that for various reasons, battery converting the 350/2 is not a plan that is likely to work…?

“Some trains” is such a good way to plan your morning… If you want to eat, you’ll need to have done so at home or buy something yourself and then surprise, you do get fed on your 1st class ticket for once…

So no different to the majority of the 153s “replacing” it with daylight able to be seen through the steelwork?

Except it won’t because it’s also to “enable more efficient timetables” by making trains drive harder. Also one needs to account for the fact that humans are not good at driving to continuously moving targets.

Not TMS on 1992TS but is only triggered by the doors close train wires driven by the active cab.

In total or per unit length…?

Thameslink or Crossrail…

72TS has had “Corrosion Repairs” and “RVAR” (and LED Lighting) Neither were treated as a refurbishment which as you say was last done in the 90s.

Perhaps… but they did state the FFCCTV showed the protecting signal at danger.

But that would be a different budget… In reality. It seems we may have been trapped by the ever present. “But ETCS is coming soon to fix that.”

Then the answer it seems is simple. Fit a TPS grid to every signal to act as a train stop for any SPAD.

That won’t help with a phone signal. Some form of nano cell would be a better solution than relying on the doubtless “sign in here” data farming WiFi we seem to be fitting to all trains nowerdays. Also will be interesting to see how a Starlink tile will be fitted to the roof and remain in gauge.