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(31/05/2022 10:47)508134 Wrote: [ -> ]Seems there is a real struggle for unit availability at the moment.

According to another forum, they are 18 units down.

(31/05/2022 10:42)508134 Wrote: [ -> ]What units are currently stabled at West Kirby - I have noted 508128 and 507005, is another unit stabled behind 507005 in siding 1?

The four units at West Kirby are 507005/14 and 508117/28

According to RTT there was a movement from Kirkdale CS to Seaforth CT at 0005 today.
This may be something to do with 508143 transit

1 part of 508143 was heading south on the M6 last night with Allelys, the other 2 went down this morning after spending the night on Acornfield Road, Kirkby.

What has happened to 143, is it in need of major repairs that cannot be done at Birkenhead North or Kirkdale

(01/06/2022 18:43)313201 Wrote: [ -> ]What has happened to 143, is it in need of major repairs that cannot be done at Birkenhead North or Kirkdale

Kind of, it needs pit inspection work and there is a queue here for the pit so it’s been sent to Derby.

Ah right, thanks for that. At first I thought it had become the 1st unit to be bought for preservation

(01/06/2022 21:27)313201 Wrote: [ -> ]Ah right, thanks for that. At first I thought it had become the 1st unit to be bought for preservation

The way the service is at the moment , Merseyrail needs all the units it can muster , with short formations and service cancellations aplenty today .

Should be interesting once we get past the Jubiulee Weekend how the following week's services pan out.

Pity we couldn't borrow some class 313 units from southern.

Literally a 313 is basically a 507/508 with a pantograph well on the roof of the middle coach and they are built to the same dimensions as the 507 & 508 units so they would have no problem working up here. This is because the 313s on southern only work on 3rd rail only as their pantographs were removed once they were transferred to southern from great northern who operate the moorgate to welwyn garden city service as class 717 units now operate the moorgate service.

Also they have the same couplings on the cab ends and can work in multiple operation with our units.

Not a great day again, a diagram was missing off the West Kirby line for a good part of the day, and buses are runing Hooton - Chester due to signalling issues