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On 23 Mar, 15:40, "Q" ..@.. wrote:
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I also noticed a 321 in FCC livery at Hornsey this morning.

The first one was finished a couple of weeks ago (321 404 IIRC), the
remainder of the small sub-batch for FCC should be following
shortly.

It was sat in the yard the other night on my way out to town tucked
away on a middle road

I saw it at Hornsey this morning. It's painted blue but still awaiting
First vinyls.

It still seems a ridiculous solution to me, introducing another
fleet for Hornsey to maintain. Why all of the 321/4s are not being
transferred to NXEA in return for a handful of their 317s
returning to FCC, where they would be (relatively) common with
the home fleet, still escapes me!

Indeed - and us over at Liv St. We would love to see the back of the
317's since they are in a state again thanks to NX. There are a
couple of problems though.

321's have never been passed to work to Enfield Town or Cheshunt
via Southbury AFAIK.

They were first introduced on those routes! The original destination
displays included Cambridge Parkway.

They would have to spend money on any new 321's for the Airport
services - and I don't know that there passed to work the airport
anyway.

I'm sure that they are passed for Cheshunt via Southbury, as the
profile and equipment is the same as the Class 322 units built for the
Stansted Express. I'd also be surprised if they couldn't goto Enfield
Town, as 322s would have been surveyed for that route when they ran to
Stansted.

As FCC are only getting 10 class 321 units, I don't see why there
couldn't be a cascade of only 9-10 317s from NXEA, NXEA would still
have plenty of 317s if there are route clearance issues. Splitting the
321 fleet into so many bits seems short-sighted, but as it is DfT
involved, we shouldn't be surprised.

ITYF that FCC are only getting 5 units. The trouble is that NXEA wouldn't
want to part with as many as 12 321s. i don;t think they are getting that
many from LM.


ITYF that LM are giving up 27 321s (at least, the original plan was
for 30) to a combination of NXEA and FCC, so there should be plenty to
allow either FCC to cascade all their 317s to NXEA or for NXEA to
cascade the necessary 317s to FCC instead of 321s.

I've seen units 401-410 mentioned as going to FCC (5 units is hardly
a viable fleet size for FCC operation)