Stock cascade of class 150s

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[inspector_blakey]

Nice idea and I'm sure it will sell well, especially at a bargain price like that. Have to say though after the briefest of hops on a LM^▸ (London Midland - recent franchise) 150 last week I wouldn't be overly keen on the idea of spending most of a day on one of them!!

[phile]

Whereas the 150s being cascaded to fgw spend about a week at PM being looked over and given Exam to put on FGW^▸ (First Great Western) Exam schedule,  Northern are putting those that have arrived there straight into traffic

[northwesterntrains]

Northern only schedule to use two of them on a daily basis at present and they have to really because they've been made to release 2 of their 156s to EMT^» (East Midlands Trains - about).  Northern don't seem to have been allowed the flexibility that FGW^▸ (First Great Western) have of choosing when they feel ready to release stock.

[northwesterntrains]

From the numbers given on another forum it looks like FGW^▸ (First Great Western) have had their full allocation of LM^▸ (London Midland - recent franchise) 150s now.  Apparently LM have 9 x 2 car 150s left to cascade and Northern have received 9 out of the 18 expected, which would suggest the remaining 9 are Northern's.  (LM are retaining 3 x 2 car 150s.)

[phile]

Not all have yet come.   Outstanding are 150104 150106 150124 160125 and 150/2 150216.   Unless and arrivals have slipped my net.

[asdfg]

Not all have yet come.   Outstanding are 150104 150106 150124 160125 and 150/2 150216.   Unless and arrivals have skipped the net.

For the record phile, I agree with what you have posted and not what has been posted on another forum. I did read somewhere that 104 and 216 were due to have been delivered a week or so ago but I never got confirmation that this had happened though.

[marky7890]

Does anyone know what livery the newly received 150/2s will wear eventually, will it be the local lines or the 150/1 plain blue livery?

[northwesterntrains]

Not all have yet come.   Outstanding are 150104 150106 150124 150125 and 150/2 150216.   Unless and arrivals have slipped my net.

It looks like there has been some confusion on the thread I was working off but with subsequent replies and common sense I've worked it out now.

Northern now have the following: 150110, 150111, 150113, 150114, 150204, 150210, 150214, 150226, 150132, 150103, 150116 and 150117 
Total = 12.  6 units left to transfer.

LM^▸ (London Midland - recent franchise) still have the following in service: 150001, 150012, 150015, 150018, 150019, 150105, 150107, 150109, 150124 and 150125.  150001 is excluded from the cascade so after reforming the other 3 car units they have 11 units left. 

Two of those 11 are for FGW^▸ (First Great Western) - 150124 and 150125.  The other units you mention have apparently been transferred.

[dog box]

almost certainly plain blue livery as read somewhere local lines livery is obsolete

[Super Sprinter 150]

FGW^▸ (First Great Western) have been doing gauging tests with an ex.London Underground class 150 (150 130) DMU^▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) betwenn Reading and Basingstoke because they want to free up some Network Turbo units.

[phile]

Already documented on the 150 Cascade thread on the "Across the West" Board as far back as far back as Oct 16th

[inspector_blakey]

...into which I have now merged the nascent thread from the Reading/Basingstoke board.

[phile]

159124 at Tyseley this morning and 150125 out working for LM^▸ (London Midland - recent franchise)

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

The west of England super sprinters must be breading :-) I take it you mean 150124

[phile]

Sorry, yes 150124.  Typing error unfortunately failed to check