142 vs 159s at Exeter

julian

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Re: 142 vs 159s at Exeter

« Reply #45 on: October 26, 2010, 16:27:37 »

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The SprinterMeister

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Re: 142 vs 159s at Exeter

« Reply #46 on: October 29, 2010, 18:16:17 »

Quote from: Donkey Guard on October 26, 2010, 16:14:25

Quote from: julian on October 26, 2010, 15:05:21

'New' trains not arriving for another 12 months or so...

I'm sure it'll be the latter... but any source for this?

Not sure where the Avocet^▸ folk get their gen...
There are 5 x LOROL^▸ 150/1 already to hand of which 3 are already running in FGW^▸ service. 150128 will go to Tysley for a C4 overhaul before heading our way. The LM^▸ 172's are now being built so I would think the 9 LM 150/1 will be to hand by June / July. At that point in time exit stage left class 142.


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JayMac

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Re: 142 vs 159s at Exeter

« Reply #47 on: October 29, 2010, 18:29:41 »

Now, we have to decide the POV for that 'exit stage left'.

If we take Exeter, facing north, then 'exit stage left' could be the Atlantic ocean. Not sure folks up north would be happy to see the donkeys drowned off the coast near Barnstaple!

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Re: 142 vs 159s at Exeter

« Reply #48 on: October 31, 2010, 11:12:04 »

The damn things would probably survive and end up swimming round the coast back 'tup North Grin


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paul7575

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Re: 142 vs 159s at Exeter

« Reply #49 on: October 31, 2010, 11:18:18 »

There are no plans to retire any 142s, and no plans to buy any extra DMU^▸ stock that will allow that directly. All the indications were that the current 172s are the last DMU buy, and they do release 150s but they are nearly all accounted for already.

AFAICS^▸ widespread electrification, somewhat beyond the current NW plans is the only thing that will result in scrapped Pacers.

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Re: 142 vs 159s at Exeter

« Reply #50 on: November 01, 2010, 12:26:51 »

Quote from: Donkey Guard on October 31, 2010, 11:12:04

The damn things would probably survive and end up swimming round the coast back 'tup North Grin

You'll miss them! Wink

Actually since fleet have adressed a lot of the issues with them such as the drivers seats and the additional window blinds in the cab they aint bad little chuckle buses and on occasion have topped the MAA^▸ / MPC^▸ figures for class 142 nationally. Of course with a small fleet it doesn't take much in the way of problems for the figures to vary wildly but overall they haven't done as bad as some expected and concentrating them on one depot seems to have worked very well.


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