TransPennine Express

[childwallblues]

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(09/08/2013 16:18)First Class Wrote:  DfT plans to electrify Windermere branch.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/elect...e-district

Bit of a surprise, but very worthwhile IMO.

Should get a good benefit:cost ratio.

Whilst I agree that electrification to Winderemere is sensible the DfT press release does have a big IF in it - subject to the business case saying that the £16M is value for money.
This proposal to electrify is nothing new. Sometime in the 1980s there was a proposal by BR to electrify the branch using redundant equipment from Kingmoor Yard. At the time the branch was being operated by Class 108s which ran empty to and from Carlisle Upperby Depot. Electrification would have saved 49 miles each way of dead mileage each day.

[WidnesRuncornBus]

RE: First Transpennine Express
Wouldn't mind a Liverpool-Windermere service, but there's not a lot of chance that happening.

[jonesy3001]

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Seen 350252 stabled at preston CS yesterday morning.

[WidnesRuncornBus]

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(13/08/2013 09:30)jonesy3001 Wrote:  Seen 350252 stabled at preston CS yesterday morning.

Thought they weren't due untill the start of September, has it recived ftpe livery yet or is it just white?

[wirralbus]

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(14/08/2013 22:07)WidnesRuncornBus Wrote:  

(13/08/2013 09:30)jonesy3001 Wrote:  Seen 350252 stabled at preston CS yesterday morning.

Thought they weren't due untill the start of September, has it recived ftpe livery yet or is it just white?

Probably for driver training purposes.

[kuyoyo]

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(14/08/2013 22:07)WidnesRuncornBus Wrote:  

(13/08/2013 09:30)jonesy3001 Wrote:  Seen 350252 stabled at preston CS yesterday morning.

Thought they weren't due untill the start of September, has it recived ftpe livery yet or is it just white?

That is not one of TPEs examples - this is the 350/2 London Midland have loaned for driver training. The first 350/4 (the TPE ones) is currently undergoing test runs in Germany.

[WidnesRuncornBus]

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(15/08/2013 09:40)kuyoyo Wrote:  

(14/08/2013 22:07)WidnesRuncornBus Wrote:  

(13/08/2013 09:30)jonesy3001 Wrote:  Seen 350252 stabled at preston CS yesterday morning.

Thought they weren't due untill the start of September, has it recived ftpe livery yet or is it just white?

That is not one of TPEs examples - this is the 350/2 London Midland have loaned for driver training. The first 350/4 (the TPE ones) is currently undergoing test runs in Germany.

Of course!!! Woops silly me not looking at the numbers properly tut tut. Thanks for correcting me.

[wirralbus]

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(15/08/2013 19:31)WidnesRuncornBus Wrote:  

(15/08/2013 09:40)kuyoyo Wrote:  

(14/08/2013 22:07)WidnesRuncornBus Wrote:  Thought they weren't due untill the start of September, has it recived ftpe livery yet or is it just white?

That is not one of TPEs examples - this is the 350/2 London Midland have loaned for driver training. The first 350/4 (the TPE ones) is currently undergoing test runs in Germany.

Of course!!! Woops silly me not looking at the numbers properly tut tut. Thanks for correcting me.

The 350/4 units will also have a revised interior more in keeping with the work that are going to be deployed on and will not be like the interiors on the 350/1 and 350/2

[WidnesRuncornBus]

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(15/08/2013 19:41)wirralbus Wrote:  

(15/08/2013 19:31)WidnesRuncornBus Wrote:  

(15/08/2013 09:40)kuyoyo Wrote:  That is not one of TPEs examples - this is the 350/2 London Midland have loaned for driver training. The first 350/4 (the TPE ones) is currently undergoing test runs in Germany.

Of course!!! Woops silly me not looking at the numbers properly tut tut. Thanks for correcting me.

The 350/4 units will also have a revised interior more in keeping with the work that are going to be deployed on and will not be like the interiors on the 350/1 and 350/2

2+2 I belive?

[wirralbus]

RE: First Transpennine Express
Will these sets usually operate in 4 or 8 car formations .