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How many Class 810's are now officially accepted and available for traffic?

That's fantastic when Avanti are using other 805 sets under the wires between Euston and Brum rather than swapping one out for the Liverpool and replacing it with the 807

Seems to be a Class 807 on the 9:05 to Liverpool today. How will that run in diesel mode? Or are we to expect special arrangements made by signallers to let it pass through the section? Edit: nothing on RTT, but Live rail record suggests the 807 being removed from the service at an unscheduled...

I was once aboard a French TGV-Reseau set that seemed to need a full reset at two intermediate stations. The whole process took 20 minutes each time!!

Are we saying that Alstom up the road in Central Rivers don't have a stockpile of parts that EMR / Hitachi can lay their hands on next day if required?

As I might have explained up thread, the working timetable demands full power acceleration from each station. There is no leeway for faffing around. And therefore the time from a station start to each subsequent signal will be slower if the trains is down on power than a set running with all...

Si Signal berth timings!

FROM THE RAILWAY PERFORMANCE SOIETY WEBSITE: "Aurora reliability seems to have hit a new low this past week with on both Thursday 16th and Friday 17th July only four sets (I believe from a pool of nine with 015 out after the Elstow collision and 019 at Old Dalby for rectification work) available...

Could the best choice have been continued electrification of the midland Mainline remaining route miles to Sheffield and Nottingham? Could that have resulted in a simpler and cheaper electric only fleet - and a larger pool of rolling stock suppliers to choose from?

The Class 222's were among the most reliable fleets in the country - despite their age - because there were always enough units to cover the diagrams with a few spare sets that could have routine maintenance carried out and enough resource to repair failures. Am i right in understanding it is...

Can anyone confirm allocations for EMR 1D23 and 1D26 StP to NOT on 16/7/23. Both RTT and Live Rail Record saying 222013 was allocated to both which must be an error

The 222's are running with engines derated to 700hp gross output each (originally 750hp) - which results in appx 565 hp at the rail. The 810s are fitted with four larger engines which potentially can deliver as much as 986hp each, but so far the performance in diesel mode is the equivalent of...

Are Class 222 reliability levels in breach of the maintenance contract? If so, can EMR appoach an alternative maintenance supplier and cancel Hitachis's contract?

Quote from a well know industry commentator AKA 'Captain Deltic' elsewhere: "They are, indeed, eessentially a new design, from Italy, not Japan, and incorporate changes of equipment supplier. Contrast with the reliability of the Avanti 805 bi-modes. Add in shorter bodies, so harder to package...

It had a leisurely 50 min timing from Kettering in to St Pancras on its last diagram from Nottingham before a return trip to Kentish Town. Any serious delay in from Nottingham would likely have seen the Kentish Town ECS move curtailed. The sets on 3 engines are slower accelerating so can lose 1...

The following was reported about a solution German Railways are doing to solve the same issue on their fleets: "Deutsche Bahn (DB) uses a specialized laser etching technique on its train windows to drastically improve 4G and 5G mobile phone reception. Because modern train windows are coated...

When I talk about all engines running, I mean all providing traction. The data doesn't lie. The good sets produce acceleration and therefore running times that are remarkably consistent. Losing an engine or suffering transmission failure hits the acceleration significantly. What I would say...

I have been on several 180's with all engines running and have the GPS data to prove that none of the 180's I ever travelled on beat the performance delivered by a Class 222 despite the 222 being derated to 700bhp per engine. As car drivers are learning , electric drive seems to deliver better...

Assuming the 8xx are running on dieawl, a class 220/222 would be fastest followed closely by a 180. Despite the 800/802 having a slightly faster initial start, the 810 is third on the list. If we are to include short formation HSTs, the 2+4 and 2+5 sets come in slightly behind the 220/222 but...

Is it more difficult to implement ATP on the actual trains?