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At the last open forum it was said that 90% of all transactions was card/contactless. The railway may loose a little bit of money short term, but longer term it will probably save money on cash handling.

Been adding some polish at Weymouth Town on my route. :) Not long and hopefully this 3 year project shall be complete. :D

No, it's the SWML between Bournemouth and Weymouth.

Spare vehicles will be kept in storage by Porterbrook as a source of spares. Overspeed testing has been carried out between Eastleigh and Basingstoke.

Most of the SWR inner suburban is set up for 10 rather than 12 coaches.

How long as this forum been around now? it should be abundantly clear to most of you by now that the strategy for rolling stock procurement (and running these post covid management contracts when you think about it) is to deliver a product at the lowest possible cost to charge the consumer at...

Different stock, different route and different equipment. The specifications and requirements for new DOO trains seem to change with each generation of train so what was acceptable on one scheme does not necessarily translate to another. I think it's worth noting everything is built at a set...

I'm not quite sure what the deal is with the cameras but I have been led to believe during testing is that the camera mounts suffer from a high amount of water ingress when it rains and in the cab only the slightest amount of sunlight will render the monitors useless.

Are you having a laugh? If anything the unions on the continent make us look relatively tame. People on this forum have taken wibble, rumour and six month old press releases and came up with their own conclusions, there was no realistic prospect of a 'soft' launch for the reasons I had...

Haha called it.

Might be the case for drivers but still no actual agreement or consensus for guards. No training course has been put together and that has to include some door operations. I just don't see it happening in the next 25 days.

I'll believe it when I actually see it, still no indication when training for train crew will start properly. Last time I spoke to my company council rep there was still no agreement on the method of working and the reasons where degraded working would be employed. If they run a train this year...

Short run on a little route i've knocked together over the last few years. :P

Unchanged from what I understand.

I don't forsee any serious problems with testing in the coming months, most of it is centered around the increased operating speed and the ASDO working reliably and so far so good.

I'll be honest, I had no idea where this union thing has come from, I know the Driver's LDC at fratton quite well and as I understand they have no real opinion on the matter, probably because they haven't been approached about traction training on them yet. They certainly aren't opposed, not...

The lease is fixed until 2027, so the company has to pay for them regardless of their use, and even if they are stored the contract stipulates they must go into warm storage meaning the units have to be driven periodically. There was never any question of the project being stopped, the real...

Soon.. :lol: But they will come eventually, the real question is where. Lots of talk that they may go back on the Windsor lines until the 701s are finally ready. Still holding out they will go on the PDL at somepoint. Was on one earlier this week and managed to get 101 out of a 4 car unit...