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    C2C class 720 updates

    602 and 606 have worked
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    Purchasing an EMU for conversion to living space

    If you find how to accurately value something in 17 years time, let us know - it will help us decide what to invest in.....
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    Class 317 withdrawals.

    Does this suggest 501 has a longer future to rust away pretending to be saved ?
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    First Class 156 up for disposal

    Crowd. (corrected for you).
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    Class 465'466 Withdrawals - List Attached

    Sorry, it was 43 on my spreadsheet.....guess my brain spits out the instructions but the typing fingers can't keep up !!
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    Class 465'466 Withdrawals - List Attached

    Of the /9 and 466, my records have: 465905, 918, 920, 921, 931, 933, 934. 466001, 005, 009, 010, 013, 016, 017, 024, 027, 030, 033, 034. all having left for storage in the North recently.
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    WMR Class 196 Build and Implementation

    By my reckoning 196105, 112, 113, 114 are still to work. Seem to be taking an age so is this a 'money saving' reason, or lack of parts to finish them reason ?
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    WMR Class 196 Build and Implementation

    If only. 2 and 11 are my last pair of 2-cars so I went out for them this afternoon but they had been swapped to 102.
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    Southeastern 465/9

    Has the suggested Tender for total Fleet Replacement been quietly canned? Not heard about it for a while, yet these Networkers are slowly being removed and like us, are not getting any younger!
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    Transport for Wales Class 230

    I thought 006 was being repaired for service a month or more ago, but its all gone very quiet?
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    BLS Martin House Tours August 26/27th.

    12 locos !! (11 winners for me too)
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    Transport for Wales Class 230

    Reported a few weeks back that christmas tree 230006 was being repaired for service but not heard much since ?
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    WMR Class 196 Build and Implementation

    From another forum, and I know & trust the guy who posted it: "I had 196111on Saturday 5th August 10-40 Shrewsbury Birmingham New for me"
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    WMR Class 196 Build and Implementation

    Which was noticed yesterday at Great Malvern when I had to physically lift an old gent down from 196005. The height gap was simply unsafe, and I'm 6'4" but still had to jump.
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    New Units in Service in 2023

    My mate had 196111 on Sat 5th Aug 10-40 Shrewsbury - Birmingham New St.
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    Greater Anglia Bombardier Aventras (Class 720): Technical discussion and introduction

    Last I heard was 720101 was still at Worksop ??
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    Merseyrail legacy fleet updates (Class 507/508)

    Units split from loco in P7 Shrews according to other sources.
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    CAF class 197 Civity for TfW: News and updates on introduction.

    So nearly all the first batch of 2-cars working then. I gather 003 is a test mule for the Cambrian signalling batch, but what is happening to 005 ??
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    Borderlands line: alternatives to class 230 operation and any other strategies to improve reliability?

    No, I said "if it looks like....and smells like....it probably is". Big difference. And thats exactly why we are where we are. Everybody can see something is very wrong with the amount spent on the emperors new clothing, but everyone is scared to say so. But just in case there are any WA...
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    Borderlands line: alternatives to class 230 operation and any other strategies to improve reliability?

    I said I would be looking FOR corruption, not that there IS corruption. Its taxpayer money not shareholder money, and Govs are supposed to have robust procurement rules and recourse - there are plenty of HMRC laws where company failure results in the former Directors being personally liable, so...

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