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If the stories going round are true, testing has been temporarily suspended due to the issues at Greenfield on Wednesday night as mentioned above. Hopefully, merely a 'blip' and all will be rectified soon... time is ticking relentlessly towards May.

I see no sets were out yesterday, really hoping that's good news and that TPE09 has completed the required mileage, but that's not what I'm hearing on the rumour mill.... anybody can update?

Depending on how many sets are available, getting crews trained up would presumably take precedence over entry to passenger service - I would think at least 2 sets would be required for training, one each side of the Pennines. Of course once a core of crew have been trained to operate the basic...

I see tonight's pennine run is only going to Leeds. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97200/2019/02/06/advanced Meanwhile the mileage accumulation runs have not gone to Bletchley so far this week, only to Crewe after Carlisle.

TPE's 07.38/40 Hull-Manchester has been booked 6 cars for years, firstly with 170's, then 185's and has always called at Howden. On both types of unit the doors on the rear vehicle (only) are locked out of use by the guard, no SDO or UDB is used. The principle problem is that the crossing is the...

Southbound run from Carlisle caped at Crewe today.

I see there has been a Longsight-Crewe-Liverpool-Crewe-Longsight run tonight: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K56177/2019/01/30/advanced http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97183/2019/01/30/advanced http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K13215/2019/01/31/advanced...

0P68 suggests it is a light engine. Both the driver training locos were in York this morning (023 & 027), an educated guess says that 027, which was based at the Scarborough end has a fault of some sort and has been replaced

Its those mileage accumulation runs which are the key. I see today's southbound run from Carlisle was caped at Crewe again.

There was a problem with (at least) one of the tunnels on the Calder Valley route for mk.5's, as there was also with platform 3 at Scarborough, however Network Rail were supposed to have done the work required to allow them to run by the end of last year.

The Bletchley leg of today's runs has been cancelled with the set heading straight back to Longsight from Carlisle.

In Russia there are many "stations/halts" which are simply named after the nearest kilometre post ("Ост. пункт"), the highest of these I have seen is Ост. пункт 9183km. Kilometre Post 9,288 is on Vladivostok station.

Indeed, TPE have made plenty of mistakes, and they are ultimately responsible for choosing CAF to supply the coaches. However in terms of the current process, if a freightliner driver going sick caused today's runs to be cancelled for example, then that is completely outwith their control. Given...

Why the need to "defend" TPE? They are but interested bystanders in the current process. TPE's actions can be judged when they actually receive a fully commissioned set and the ball is then in firmly their court, so to speak. TPE are doing what they can in the meantime, they are well on with...

Looks like today's runs are cancelled completely, if they were ever planned to run at all. So after a week of mileage accumulation, we seem to be back at square one then with zero fault free mileage accumulated. Time is ticking away if 2 sets are to be introduced from May.

It seems to me that there was a bug in the system - it didn't consistently show PRIV on the ticket itself. So instead of fixing the bug, and then enforcing the showing of the railcard, they withdraw the facility. Lazy option. I have booked many sleeper tickets at various booking offices, and...

Today's run from Carlisle to Bletchley was caped at Crewe due to a "problem with the train". Heading back to Longsight now.

The first two sets as in TP01 & TP02, or any two random sets which happened to be tested first?

TPE have stated in an internal update today that the first of their 800's has now completed its 15,000 miles of fault free running...

The update implied the mk.5's are 9 months late, due initially to production problems in Spain, and then issues thrown up during testing, such as the braking problem. CAF do have a lot on in the UK at moment and TPE are conscious of fact that their two fleets are not the only ones in the queue...