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I think the 319's are replacing the Class 156 on the Liverpool - Manchester Airport service when they get the overhead wires sorted out .

Wonder if the 156's will go to ATW after?

(04/12/2014 22:56)cx04axy Wrote: [ -> ]Wonder if the 156's will go to ATW after?

More likely they will go to TPE to replace the 170s that will have moved to Chiltern

(04/12/2014 21:42)cx04axy Wrote: [ -> ]Any idea what the 319's are replacing? And whatever they are replacing are they been used elsewhere

As previously posted (many times) the 319s will initially replace 142 150 and 156 out of Lime Street to Manchester Airport, Manchester Victoria, Wigan North Western and Warringto Bank Quay.

(04/12/2014 22:56)cx04axy Wrote: [ -> ]Wonder if the 156's will go to ATW after?

Unlikely to go to ATW. Should stay with Northern until at least 2016.

(04/12/2014 22:56)cx04axy Wrote: [ -> ]Wonder if the 156's will go to ATW after?

It will not happen , Arriva Trains Wales does not operate Class 156's . They may have operated into Wales in the days of First North Western and Central Trains , remember them .

A further four Class 319s are due to be taken out of service by Thameslink tomorrow and replaced by new Class 387/1 diagrams on Monday.

(05/12/2014 07:45)childwallblues Wrote: [ -> ]A further four Class 319s are due to be taken out of service by Thameslink tomorrow and replaced by new Class 387/1 diagrams on Monday. These are 319368/72/79/82.

Any idea where this lineside fire / incident was on the Liverpool - Huyton line .

(05/12/2014 06:00)wirralbus Wrote: [ -> ]It will not happen , Arriva Trains Wales does not operate Class 156's . They may have operated into Wales in the days of First North Western and Central Trains , remember them .

It is a simple conversion course for train crew, but I would suspect 142's to leave the fleet first.

SD.