More and more 377/5s seem to be appearing at Lovers Walk...
Maybe Siemens have finally fixed issues on the 700s that have been stood down at Bridges
stored?
some little rumour that the 377/5s are gonna replace the 313s in july.........
A little mention of 313s being replaced in the latest Gibb report.
"The next choice is whether to remove the 19 Coastway Class 313 3 car units in July, 2017, as
proposed by GTR, and replace them with Class 377s. These Class 313s have no toilets, and are
third rail only. This would enable an improvement in the passenger experience and further
extension of DOO to all these services; Class 313s require conductors on GTR. The alternative is
to transfer up to 20 Class 377s to South Eastern (as per their proposal to DfT of 21st December,
2016) to provide additional passenger capacity. Whilst depot capacity exists on South Eastern to
accommodate this rolling stock, principally at Grove Park and Victoria Grosvenor sidings, £2m is
required to improve facilities at the latter to accommodate more overnight activity, so the decision
must take that into account. I recommend the transfer third rail only Class 377/1s to South
Eastern, as the dual voltage units are most usefully retained on the GTR network. "
