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« Reply #45 on: July 02, 2010, 15:45:09 »
Not much visible damage apart from a few dents and scratches here and there, suspect its more wheelset/bogie damage preventing movement by rail.

Power car loaded onto a lorry early hours of Friday morning for a breakfast time departure to Laira via the A30 to Exeter and the A38 back to Plymouth (30 mph 6 hrs)

Coaches departing after loading Friday morning.
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« Reply #46 on: July 03, 2010, 12:46:04 »
Quote from: Coombe Stn on July 02, 2010, 15:45:09
Not much visible damage apart from a few dents and scratches here and there, suspect its more wheelset/bogie damage preventing movement by rail.

Power car loaded onto a lorry early hours of Friday morning for a breakfast time departure to Laira via the A30 to Exeter and the A38 back to Plymouth (30 mph 6 hrs)

Coaches departing after loading Friday morning.

is this because too big to go along the a38. Must be at least an extra 70 miles to go all way up to Exeter and back!
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« Reply #47 on: July 03, 2010, 12:58:40 »
Far too heavy for crossing the Tamar for one thing  Wink
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« Reply #48 on: July 03, 2010, 14:00:07 »
and if it went by rail on some kind of rail flat bed you would end up with an open top hst !

how has this affected services being a unit down?
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« Reply #49 on: July 03, 2010, 14:20:27 »
Not a great problem there are 49 sets available where 50 are needed which is nothing new, FGW▸ (First Great Western) seem to manage like this most days.

They are only actually 1 power car and 2 First class coaches short on that set, so 2 spare coaches from whichever depot and a spare power car from wherever and job done one complete set again

I believe there are no spare power cars left at the moment all available ones in use.
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« Reply #50 on: July 03, 2010, 14:27:43 »
caughs cross country :-)
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« Reply #51 on: July 03, 2010, 14:39:01 »
A quick trawl round FGW▸ (First Great Western) maintenace depots reveals.
Spare power cars ..... Nil
4 HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) coaching sets under maintenance.
Class 57...... 3 available
For once the West Sprinter fleet has had 2 spare sets available for service.
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« Reply #52 on: September 03, 2010, 14:02:01 »
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Voyager toilets are only emptied at Central Rivers up Burton way.

I have been told by Long Rock that the CET▸ (Controlled Emission Toilet) equipment is used when requested by X Country to empty Voyager tanks
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« Reply #53 on: September 03, 2010, 14:12:03 »
CET▸ (Controlled Emission Toilet) equipment?
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« Reply #54 on: September 03, 2010, 14:15:41 »
CET▸ (Controlled Emission Toilet) = Controlled Emission Toilet
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« Reply #55 on: September 03, 2010, 14:18:35 »
Ah, thanks for that II.  Smiley

So that eye-watering whiff you get on Voyagers is emitted under some sort of control then is it?  Tongue Grin
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