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Author Topic: Class 180s return to the Cotswolds  (Read 194238 times)
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« on: May 05, 2012, 20:28:57 »

A Class 180 is on test next week over the Cotswolds - Tuesday and Thursday

5Z28 0735 London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill

http://rail.staging.swlines.co.uk/schedule.php?uid=V19236&date=2012-05-08

5Z31 0958 Worcester Shrub Hill to London Paddington

http://rail.staging.swlines.co.uk/schedule.php?uid=V19237&date=2012-05-08

A stop at Ascott-under-Wychwood is also included on the down run, wonder if 180s will be stopping there!
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2012, 10:44:11 »

A stop at Ascott-under-Wychwood is also included on the down run, wonder if 180s will be stopping there!

They will.  Every weekday on the down 'Halts' service in the evening from around September.

More 180s were due to arrive from Kilmarnock yesterday I believe, though I understand there were 'problems' so they didn't make the trip.  180106 continues to put in all the training mileage, but for most of the last two weeks has been running on only 4 engines, and sometimes on 3!
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2012, 11:57:04 »

A Class 180 is on test next week over the Cotswolds - Tuesday and Thursday
Thanks for that. I presume not passenger-carrying?!
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2012, 15:55:07 »

Not with a prefix of '5' in the headcode
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2012, 17:11:44 »

More 180s were due to arrive from Kilmarnock yesterday I believe, though I understand there were 'problems' so they didn't make the trip.  180106 continues to put in all the training mileage, but for most of the last two weeks has been running on only 4 engines, and sometimes on 3!
This does not sound good.
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2012, 20:25:20 »

The crew training runs have been cancelled on a couple of occasions due to a "train fault" as well.
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« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2012, 19:34:26 »

So when the first passenger carrying run take place? Surely some of the training could be done in passenger service?
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2012, 13:57:17 »

It seems to be running down to Worcester all this week at least.  Here's the full daily diagram for 180106 this week (just shy of 500 miles training running a day) - noting that as it's a Class 5 it could easily run a little ahead of these timings:


Train Schedule 5Z26
07:05 Old Oak Common H.S.T.D. to London Paddington

OldOHST      07:05
OldOkCE      07:09      
Padton       07:15


Train Schedule 5Z28
07:35 London Paddington to Worcester S.H. Long Sdg

Padton       07:35      
LdbrkJ       07:38      
ActonW       07:41      
Sthall       07:43      
HtrwAJn      07:44      
Slough    07:48   07:49   
Mdnhead      07:55      
Twyford   07:58   07:59   
Rdngstn   08:07   08:15   
RedgWJn      08:16      
DidctEJ      08:28      
DidcotP   08:29   08:31   
DidctNJ      08:33      
KnngtnJ      08:41      
Oxfd    08:45   08:45   
WvctJn       08:49      
Chbury    08:58   08:59   
AsctUWd   09:03   09:04   
Kingham   09:09   09:10   
MInMars   09:17   09:18   
Honybrn   09:27   09:28   
Evesham   09:34   09:36   
NrtnJn       09:45      
WorcsSH   09:51   10:01   
Worcls    10:03      


Train Schedule 5Z31
09:58 Worcester Shrub Hill to London Paddington

WorcsSH      09:58      
NrtnJn       10:02      
Evesham   10:12   10:13   
Honybrn   10:18   10:19      
MInMars   10:31   10:32   
Kingham   10:39   10:40      
AsctUWd      10:44      
Chbury    10:48   10:49   
WvctJn       10:59      
Oxfd    11:19   11:21   
KnngtnJ      11:24      
DidctNJ      11:29      
DidcotP         11:34   
DidctEJ      11:30      
RedgWJn      11:55      
Rdngstn   11:57   11:58   
Twyford      12:03      
Mdnhead      12:08      
Slough    12:17   12:18   
HtrwAJn      12:27      
HayesAH         12:19      
SthalWJ      12:32         
Sthall       12:33      
EalingB         12:34      
ActonW       12:36      
OldOHST         12:44      
LdbrkJ       12:40      
Padton    12:48      


Train Schedule 5Z32
13:35 London Paddington to Didcot Parkway

Padton       13:35      
LdbrkJ       13:38      
ActonW       13:41      
Sthall       13:43      
HayesAH         13:47      
HtrwAJn      13:44      
Slough    13:48   13:49   
Mdnhead      13:55         
Twyford      13:58         
Rdngstn      14:06         
RedgWJn      14:07         
DidctEJ      14:15         
DidcotP   14:17      


Train Schedule 5Z33
14:22 Didcot Parkway to London Paddington

DidcotP      14:22         
DidctEJ      14:23         
RedgWJn      14:34         
Rdngstn   14:37   14:39         
Twyford      14:44         
Mdnhead      14:50         
Slough    14:58   15:06         
Dolphnj      15:08         
HtrwAJn      15:14         
Sthall       15:15         
ActonW       15:18         
LdbrkJ       15:21         
Padton    15:26


Train Schedule 5Z34
15:35 London Paddington to Oxford Up Carriage Sdgs

Padton       15:35         
LdbrkJ       15:38         
ActonW       15:41         
Sthall       15:43         
HtrwAJn      15:44         
Slough    15:48   15:49         
Mdnhead      15:55         
Twyford      15:58         
Rdngstn   16:02   16:05         
RedgWJn      16:06         
DidctEJ      16:19         
DidctNJ      16:20         
KnngtnJ      16:26         
Oxfdudp      16:29         
Oxfd    16:53   16:54         
Oxfducs   16:56


Train Schedule 5Z35
17:18 Oxford Up Carriage Sdgs to London Paddington

Oxfducs      17:18         
Oxfd    17:20   17:21         
KnngtnJ      17:24         
DidctNJ      17:30         
DidcotP   17:33   18:09         
DidctEJ      18:10         
RedgWJn      18:18         
Rdngstn      18:19         
Twyford      18:24         
Mdnhead      18:27         
Slough    18:31   18:32         
HtrwAJn      18:39         
Sthall       18:41         
ActonW       18:44         
LdbrkJ       18:47         
ROyaoSd   18:50   19:01         
Padton    19:05


Train Schedule 5Z36
19:35 London Paddington to Old Oak Common H.S.T.D.

Padton       19:35         
OldOkCE      19:50         
OldOHST   19:53
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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2012, 17:58:13 »

....and here it is at at Paddington at exactly 1526 yesterday (09 May 2012)

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« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2012, 07:41:02 »

Just heard from the train crew on the return to Honeybourne yesterday that the new date for the introduction of Adelantes into passenger service is now put back to the 9th of July. Apparently they are continuing to suffer from engine failures in their test runs. Perhaps Industry Insider would be in a position to confirm this?
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« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2012, 09:47:18 »

Erm, they already have been introduced into passenger service, since Monday:

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=6956.450

Or did you mean further introduced?  I don't think we'll be waiting until the end of July for further introduction.  As far as I know (with a little assistance from a RAIL article) we have 180103 currently being used which has performed OK since its return from Wolverton & Kilmarnock - it was over an hour late yesterday returning from Great Malvern, but that was because of signalling problems rather than problems with the train, and that let to the last two workings of the day being Turbos. 

We also have 180108 at Old Oak which hasn't been used in anger yet but will be soon.  180106, which did all the test running up to the end of last week is refurbished and now off to Wolverton to get its reliability modifications.  180104 is currently at Kilmarnock, and lastly 180102 (still unrefurbished and in old livery) is with FGW (First Great Western) but imminently about to go up to Kilmarnock and then Wolverton.
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« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2012, 13:12:45 »

Travelling north on an FGW (First Great Western) service between Oxford and Banbury today at 09.10ish, I saw a flash of purple travelling south - it sounded like five carriages, and there's no southbound Turbo timetabled at that time AIUI (as I understand it), but I turned too late to see whether it was an Adelante. Any clues (or was I dreaming the whole thing...)?
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« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2012, 20:41:56 »

Thanks for the clarification Industry Insider. I had read the piece in Rail, so was somewhat surprised by the comments from the train crew. Good to hear the first one is in service and performing well.

I was also told that the weekday 21.48 last train from PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) - currently an HST (High Speed Train) - would be replaced by an Adelante. Any truth in this rumour?
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« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2012, 22:46:48 »

Travelling north on an FGW (First Great Western) service between Oxford and Banbury today at 09.10ish, I saw a flash of purple travelling south - it sounded like five carriages, and there's no southbound Turbo timetabled at that time AIUI (as I understand it), but I turned too late to see whether it was an Adelante. Any clues (or was I dreaming the whole thing...)?

One was going through Twyford around 8am this morning, towards Reading (no idea if thats north or south! Tongue)
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« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2012, 09:19:42 »

I was also told that the weekday 21.48 last train from PAD» (Paddington (London) - next trains) - currently an HST (High Speed Train) - would be replaced by an Adelante. Any truth in this rumour?

No truth that I know of - currently that train stables overnight and returns in the morning as the first very busy (from Oxford onwards) HST service.  We've been told no HST services are to replaced by Class 180s.  However, on a Friday night the 21:48 is currently formed by a 3-car Turbo as the return working first thing on a Saturday morning certainly doesn't warrant a full HST, so perhaps they will run that using a Class 180 - which would be much more suitable than a Turbo.
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