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Author Topic: IETs into passenger service from 16 Oct 2017 and subsequent performance issues  (Read 543975 times)
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« Reply #1260 on: January 17, 2019, 15:36:19 »

Apparently the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Hitachi indicated back in 2016 that he company would have to review its investments i the UK (United Kingdom) including the nuclear project relating to the outcome of Brexit. It has been faced with rising construction costs for this particular project, which may or may not be related. However, the company itself is not as strong financially overall as it was when they set out on this.
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« Reply #1261 on: January 17, 2019, 15:59:54 »

The list of diesel only restricted units has been pretty short recently, usually numbering somewhere between five and ten (from a current fleet total of seventy odd).  I would suggest those observations were not typical of the actual percentage of trains running on diesel.

Just checked today’s list and just two units are restricted to diesel out of the entire 800 and 802 fleet.  They are 800313 and 800320.
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« Reply #1262 on: January 17, 2019, 16:11:16 »

1W02 will be 5 not 9 this evening due to a train fault. When this happened last week it became pick up only at Reading.
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« Reply #1263 on: January 17, 2019, 16:16:59 »

Could the IETs (Intercity Express Train) become tri mode? Electric, diesel and nuclear powered?
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« Reply #1264 on: January 17, 2019, 16:33:34 »

Perhaps Hitachi thought they were going to get their hands on British Rail's now expired patent for a nuclear fusion powered flying saucer...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4801928.stm
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« Reply #1265 on: January 17, 2019, 16:37:55 »

1W02 will be 5 not 9 this evening due to a train fault. When this happened last week it became pick up only at Reading.

Which service is that ? So much for the assurances that all busy services would be full length. I appreciate that things are slowly getting better, but we have had well over a year of routine short formations.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #1266 on: January 17, 2019, 16:39:36 »

Perhaps Hitachi thought they were going to get their hands on British Rail's now expired patent for a nuclear fusion powered flying saucer...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4801928.stm


I checked the date on the link and it wasn't April 1st!
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« Reply #1267 on: January 17, 2019, 17:24:34 »

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« Reply #1268 on: January 17, 2019, 17:27:20 »

The (down) Oxfordshire Halts train being upgraded from its traditional 2 carriages to 9 is taking some getting used to! I wonder if 9 carriages is the longest that’s ever called at Combe and Finstock...
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« Reply #1269 on: January 17, 2019, 22:35:51 »


Just checked today’s list and just two units are restricted to diesel out of the entire 800 and 802 fleet.  They are 800313 and 800320.

Just to say that last Saturday I travelled on 800320 on the 1226 from Cardiff (started at Swansea) as far as Swindon and I'm practically certain that it ran on electric power from Bristol Parkway onwards.
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« Reply #1270 on: January 18, 2019, 08:12:21 »

You may well have done, the list changes regularly.
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« Reply #1271 on: January 18, 2019, 19:33:41 »

My daughter caught the 1300 from Paddington to Chippenham today. They spent 20 minutes at Didcot because the train's alarm system was reporting that the first 5 coaches were on fire ! They weren't of course, but they had to get info from Hitachi on how to override the false alarm before the train could move on. The same thing happened between Swindon & Chippenham, but as the driver knew what to do this time there was only a 5 minute stop in the wilds of Wiltshire ! Had there been a real fire the overflowing aircon units would have come in handy.....
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« Reply #1272 on: January 18, 2019, 19:47:33 »

You may well have done, the list changes regularly.

Just the one unit on the list today.
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« Reply #1273 on: January 22, 2019, 08:17:40 »

......to Newport today to visit a supplier  (work, not drugs!), taking a German colleague along, normally we'd drive but decided to give the train a chance. The "St David" is shortformed (5 instead of 10) with no seat reservations.

Back to the M4 next time, and colleague will be heading back to Germany unimpressed with the British rail system having been eager to try the new trains he'd heard so much about.
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« Reply #1274 on: January 22, 2019, 08:36:13 »

Looks like three IET (Intercity Express Train) diagrams are five rather than ten this morning.
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