New class bonanza in 2024?

[DJH1971]

Looks like the 810's missed out of being in service in 2024, and so have the 730/2's.

 

[fgwrich]

Have the ROG 768s really done any revenue earning work?

No, and their 319s remain largely in storage in Eastleigh and various other sites too.

 

[QSK19]

I would put a quid on the once-unthinkable notion the 810s still not making it into service in 2025.

Many thought 2024 was impossibly late for them to enter service and now look at where we are. So, I wouldn’t count 100% on 2025 being the year - we’ll be resurrecting this thread in December next year and note that they’re still undergoing testing

 

[778]

The all-time record (at least since nationalisation), appears to have been 1958, at the height of the modernisation scheme, when more than half the pilot sceheme designs (classes 16,21,24,26,28,40,41 (Warship), and 42) along with classes 06, 71, 108, 119, 120, 125, 129, 203, 302, D2/11 (D2999), B3/1 (D2900), and all five railbus classes were introduced, along with the rebuilding of gas turbine locomotive 18100 to electric, in which form it would be allocated TOPS class 80.

I think BR also built some steam locos in 1958?

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I would put a quid on the once-unthinkable notion the 810s still not making it into service in 2025.

Would you also put a quid on the 730/2s not being in service in 2025? They most likely will be but I would not be surpised if they also don't make it.

 

[QSK19]

Would you also put a quid on the 730/2s not being in service in 2025? They most likely will be but I would not be surpised if they also don't make it.

Yeah, go on then

 

[norbitonflyer]

I think BR also built some steam locos in 1958?

Indeed - right up until 1960 - but no new classes (see post 20). The last entirely new steam class were the 77xxx standard class 3MTs in 1954, with the rebuilds of Bulleid Merchant Navies and Light Pacifics beginning to appear in 1956 and 1957 respectively.

 

[778]

The all-time record (at least since nationalisation), appears to have been 1958, at the height of the modernisation scheme, when more than half the pilot sceheme designs (classes 16,21,24,26,28,40,41 (Warship), and 42) along with classes 06, 71, 108, 119, 120, 125, 129, 203, 302, D2/11 (D2999), B3/1 (D2900), and all five railbus classes were introduced, along with the rebuilding of gas turbine locomotive 18100 to electric, in which form it would be allocated TOPS class 80.

There are not that many of these classes that were still in service in 1980. Only 3 lasted into the 90s and they had all gone by 1993 except for the class 302.

A lot of these classes should not have been built really.

 

[Deepgreen]

Indeed, but was there really any more variety between the various emus that entered service in the 50s and early 60s (414, 415, 416, 302, 304, 305, 307, 308, 501, 504?)

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I was assuming not - indeed I would not be at all surprised if some of the other classes fail to enter service this coming year.

What may come to be called '701 Syndrome'...