London Banter - View Single Post - GOBLIN 172s: where do they go during their hols?

Roland Perry · May 29th 16, 08:39 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

In message , at 19:31:17
on Sat, 28 May 2016, remarked:
In article ,
(Theo) wrote:

In uk.railway Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 27 May 2016 23:24:53 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

That doesn't seem to leave long enough for any useful hiring out in
the direction of Chiltern unless e.g. there's something big at Wembley
or somewhere else (Stratford ?) they could be used for. If there is
coincidence with work somewhere else then they would at least be
available for e.g. diversions over alternative non-electrified routes.

Greater Anglia seem to be sporadically short of DMUs, dragging out the
LHCS occasionally when they get desperate. I don't know if that's close
enough that they can still live at Willesden for maintenance.

However GA don't like paying for stock - claiming they didn't need the
317s required by the previous operator on their patch. So unless they're
going really cheap...

Didn't they relent and eventually take all the 317s back one way or another?

AGA's DMU shortage also shows up in the inability to run long enough trains
on some services, e.g. Cambridge-Ipswich, and increase the
Peterborough-Ipswich service to hourly.

Doesn't the latter require doubling Ely-Soham?
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Roland Perry