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Having made several journeys now on most of the sets which have seen service, I would make the following observations: Nice interiors, very quiet compared to underfloor engined stock, as you would expect. Despite predictions, the locomotive can be heard in most of the coaches when under power...

Thank you for the information, much appreciated.

A short trip on TP12 this evening with 68030 revealed a couple of faults, mostly with the PIS announcements being incomplete "we are now arriving at <blank>...." etc. But overall very nice, great to see steady progress being made after months and months of waiting. I believe TP06 should make an...

Training for Scarborough crews starts this week.

Thanks for that.

Do we know which set was delivered from Portbury yesterday, or indeed if it was even a mk.5 set? Looks like its just the one set out again today with the uber reliable 68027, stepping up at Scarborough though to work F60 off E25.

Regarding Deltics, the main 'humming/droning' sound when idling is the air reverberating in the engine air intakes on the side above the nameplates, that's why you can feel the air in your lungs vibrating when stood there. It's also why they sound different under an overall roof as the two...

I'm afraid it's not quite as simple as that. Whilst 120dBA may damage hearing instantaneously, for lower amounts of noise it depends on the length of exposure to that noise. So 2 hours at 100dBA is worse than 5 minutes at 110dBA. There is a noise 'calculator' on the government's health & safety...

Be interesting to see if they are 'brave' enough to put two sets out tomorrow as planned, assuming they that actually have two sets which work of course....

1E29 caped Man Vic with 68027, believed due to an ETS fault.

Fascinating stuff, thank you for all your summaries, they are very, very interesting. Although its early days, and discounting 68025 as its only worked once, would it be true to say that 68027 and its set has proved to be more reliable that 68026 and its set?

If you saw what front line staff see on a daily basis then you would understand the poor management comments. In general the hands-on managers are doing their best and achieving some good results, but it's the failure of management at a senior level to properly plan and co-ordinate the huge task...

Thank you for the summary. The first day (24.08) was 68027, not 68026.

No, if you don't like it, please feel completely free to move along. Stunning video, stunning sound. I doubt the Holgate area has heard anything quite like that since late 1981....

No, it's not Ed.

All being well, another small piece of the jigsaw should fall into place tomorrow when the first TPE Instructor driver passes out on the route beyond Middlesbrough to Redcar and Saltburn using a light engine class 68. After that, the York drivers who will be taking Nova 3's there (eventually)...

Oh yes they are, as of 18.30 on Thursday it was still possible to buy tickets on the TPE website for Friday's 09.56 departure from Liverpool to Scarborough. This is despite there being a plan in place to cancel the service to provide the path for the Nova 3 since at least Wednesday. This isn't...

Its absolutely not "all good" - the way both passengers and staff are being treated over this is nothing short of a disgrace. Selling tickets and reservations for services which TPE know are going to be cancelled is tantamount to fraud, in my opinion. Not telling traincrew involved in working...

To be fair there was a signalling issue at Lea Green causing part of the delay.

Without "slagging" anybody off, it seems today's run on 5E31 is currently experiencing "technical difficulties".