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    Northern Unit Refurbishments and depot allocations.

    They are due to be allocated to Hull BG for the Neville Hill blockade once additional investment has been completed at Hull. New siding being created now.
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    Stagecoach East Midlands - Fleet and Engineering Updates

    No council money has funded the buses. It's the operator and government.
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    Hull to halifax service to be split at leeds

    This service is due to go when TRU is completed to be replaced with 2 per hour TPE between Hull and Manchester Pic. It will revert to a Selby to Leeds stopper.
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    East Yorkshire Motor Services, now part of Go-Ahead

    Serves a larger population, the Avenues etc. Without the need to catch another bus.
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    East Yorkshire Motor Services, now part of Go-Ahead

    M1 will also serve Princes Av and Newland Av out of Hull instead of Beverley Rd
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    East Yorkshire Motor Services, now part of Go-Ahead

    Thanks for pointing out. It will now be corrected.
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    Withdrawn Class 153 locations

    Why are they being stored given their age?
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    Grand Central new Class 820 IET units.

    Where will these new trains be maintained? I cannot see Crofton. Heaton?
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    222 contract for Scotrail: updates (not speculation)

    Are the trains being refurbished at Derby?
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    Train Station Trivia

    There is also a single daily 155 from Hull to Halifax and back. The 170 may have been covering this diagram as all are based at Hull Botanic Gardens and there are less 155 available from the new timetable. The 3-car 158 NL units are due in future to be allocated to Hull which cover the Halifax...
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    Stagecoach East Midlands - Timetables, Services, & Wider Operations

    Has the paint shop reopened at Grimsby? I thought it closed years ago and painting was done at Hull, Scunthorpe and Lincoln.
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    East Yorkshire Motor Services, now part of Go-Ahead

    Moorsbus has been really successful and the service will be enhanced. Good team effort between East Yorkshire, Moorsbus, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hull City Council.
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    Why is Bradford so deeply overshadowed by Leeds in rail transport terms?

    Prior to Hull Trains we had a delegation to Westminster involving myself, Chamber of Commerce and a few others meeting Chris Garnett of the then GNER about increasing the number of direct trains between Hull and London. He said at the time the only plans they had was to introduce a second...
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    East Yorkshire Motor Services, now part of Go-Ahead

    There are a total of 27 electric buses coming to Hull and if you add in Stagecoach 82 for the city. Good partnership working with the two local authorities supported by government.
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    Northern Unit Refurbishments and depot allocations.

    It's part of an ongoing programme to extend life of the 155. All 7 are based at Hull Botanic Gardens.
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    Northern Unit Refurbishments and depot allocations.

    155346 is now at Botanic Gardens on 2 road in the shed. It's had C Exam including repaint. Parked up next to 170456 which is getting a B Exam.
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    80x to replace Mk4s on TfW?

    The plan appears quite clear. Transpennine is set to introduce 29 new bi-mode train units from 2029, with an option for 26 more to compliment the 19 existing 802 and the 12 397 plus the 185.
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    Work resumes at Alstom Derby

    The hope for Derby will be the new train orders such as Northern, Transpennine and others. Goole will probably get more TfL, Newport has the LNER order and is much smaller factory. Hitachi has the First and GC orders for now.
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    Work resumes at Alstom Derby

    As widely reported in the press in the last few hours the production lines have reopened at Litchurch Lane for the Elizabeth Line trains. The BBC is reporting the workforce has been trimmed down from around 1500 staff to around 650 although it is expected another 100 staff will be taken on...
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    Northern Future fleet updates

    Trains operate on set diagrams with set traction. Variations as mentioned do happen regularly but traction is set. Train crews cannot only work the traction they are approved. In the case of Northern 155 and 170s almost exclusively work on their set diagrams while 150 and 158 can cover their...

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