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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Only 026 and 051 are currently stopped. Rest are on exam or being attended to for minor faults. Exam schedules have been revamped recently after significant improvements in reliability and recent upticks in availability are partly thanks to that.
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Yes, all required work was completed overnight on Saturday.
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    London Buses Discussion

    Yes, I think that was always the plan, and now operating all day instead of finishing at 8pm. The re-routing will also partially compensate for lost capacity between Nags Head and Stamford Hill when the 254 is withdrawn.
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    Ways for passengers to stop trains in emergency

    Correct on both fronts. I'm more thinking along the lines of "someone" not really being able to move much eg. badly injured due to a fall, especially in a multi-track layout area, as otherwise surely they just get as far away as possible from the running lines. Really these are all edge cases...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    010 is awaiting parts following the lineside strike on 10th August.
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Just been given the heads up 028 should be reapproved today imminently.
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    Ways for passengers to stop trains in emergency

    If the train is coming imminently you may not be able to stop it in time, so lay down in the 6 foot, tuck everything in, and for heaven's sake never in the 4 foot.
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    Delay Repay limited to just one leg of a Return?

    Outward and return portions should have the same number. You may be thinking of reservation coupons which had their own numbers.
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    There is a train clearance mode which allows guards to close one coach at a time, however that isn't necessarily going to be quicker when you have a fully loaded train. You still have to make several announcements and allow people to empty the first coach before you can do anything with the...
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    1Z44 near Bosham - What is this?

    Last week and this week, Victoria - Pompey services are running as shuttles under 1Zxx between Pompey and Barnham, with Bognor Regis portions running through to/from Victoria. No portion working as would normally be the case.
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    Oyster Annual Travelcard - Requirement to Tap In and Out

    As others said, within zones covered by your Travelcard it really doesn't make any difference. However if you travel around the DLR a lot, I would urge caution if you subsequently need to travel outside the zones, as you must be correctly touched in and make sure the validator says "Enter". In...
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    Can you use the return portion of a day return ticket if you do not use the first outward journey ticket?

    You aren't exactly helping yourself with your constant evasion of the core questions identified quite early on by experienced forum members. If you want help then you need to tell people exactly what your circumstances are and answer any queries people have which are crucial to your case. I'm...
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    Zone 1 to SWR at Wimbledon - Contactless Charge Query

    For contactless and Oyster fares do not use BRFares, use LTFares instead, which shows the fare only applicable in one direction. Maybe it is an error it only applied in one direction but that is what the fares data says.
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    Origin station DRC

    I suspect that is the answer. There was a Dorchester Stations group previously (known now publicly as you mentioned) which is what most flows from either station were defined to/from.
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    Whittlesea station and East Midlands Railway stopping cancellations

    RTT will be as accurate as upstream data. Fail to stops have to be keyed into the system manually and may take up to 8 days to reflect in some cases (or even not at all if not correctly entered) in upstream data source. It is also not an official source so you cannot rely on it for definitive...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    I think he probably meant they have all been accepted by the company but that isn't the same as passed for passenger service. I could be wrong mind.
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    For clarity 029 has not been passed for passenger service yet, not that I am aware of anyway. I was kind of hoping it would have been by some miracle when I came back from leave, but unfortunately not quite there yet.
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    London Buses Discussion

    I know this table was correct to end of March, but are there any 09 reg buses still in TfL services? There are still a bunch of 59 ones congregated around Croydon (Metrobus single-door WVLs on SL7, WVNs on 403, and Arriva DWs on 194) so presumbaly they are the last surviving lot from that year.
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    SWR Class 458/4s: fleet status and withdrawal updates

    March 2027 if I recall although I'm a bit fuzzy on this one. Can be terminated early I think.

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