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Title: The Adelante fleet - what if they had remained in the South West? Post by: grahame on August 14, 2026, 09:40:25 "On this day" brings up Adelante (class 180) testing at Hull on 14th August 2009 - one of many pictures at http://www.traintesting.com/Class_180.htm (http://www.traintesting.com/Class_180.htm)
The Adelante fleet of 14 x 5 car trains was new to Great Western (the old, smaller franchise) around 25 years ago - the turn of the century, at it intesting (and hypotherical) to ask where we would be today if those trains had remained as paet of the franchise / management contract to this day. Title: Re: The Adelante fleet - what if they had remained in the South West? Post by: Richard Fairhurst on August 14, 2026, 13:59:34 Given the Adelantes' propensity to self-combust, I suspect in this weather, the answer to "where would we/they be today" is "firmly locked inside the depot"...
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