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« 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

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.
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« Reply #1 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"...

But despite their well publicised troubles, Old Oak Common did a remarkable job of getting them to behave. I wonder whether the introduction of the 175s might have been a bit smoother if a team of engineers with experience on their sister units was still on hand.
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