On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:41:50 +0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new trains..."
press releases this week.

It reminds me of the Class 70.

Is there some kind of serious buffer underneath the fibreglass?

What's the significance of the numbering been in the 700s?

In message
-septem
ber.org, at 14:41:50 on Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Recliner
remarked:
http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new trains..."
press releases this week.

4 cars, when I thought 700's were going to be in fixed 8 and 12 car
formations.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message

-september.
org, at 14:41:50 on Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Recliner
remarked:

http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...g-future-as-ne
w-thameslink-train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new trains..."
press releases this week.

4 cars, when I thought 700's were going to be in fixed 8 and 12 car
formations.

Yes! I looked at the pictures and wondered where the other cars were

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 02:30:21
on Sat, 1 Aug 2015, remarked:

4 cars, when I thought 700's were going to be in fixed 8 and 12 car
formations.

Yes! I looked at the pictures and wondered where the other cars were

I suppose if they want to use it for testing, a short-formed one is
going to be almost as good as a regular one.

As for the mystery of why GN's Connections magazine thinks 700's will be
running to Kings Lynn, some exchanges on Twitter, and a lot of reading
between the lines, suggests that when they say:

"we will begin to introduce them on the London King’s Cross to
Cambridge, King’s Lynn and Peterborough routes later [in 2016]"

For the Kings Lynn trains they mean "the handful a day which are
currently 8-car 365's". The 377's will therefore arrive later, perhaps
after a delayed cascade from Thameslink due to issues with deploying
700's on that route.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 02:30:21
on Sat, 1 Aug 2015, remarked:

4 cars, when I thought 700's were going to be in fixed 8 and 12 car
formations.

Yes! I looked at the pictures and wondered where the other cars were

I suppose if they want to use it for testing, a short-formed one is
going to be almost as good as a regular one.

I think it will be tested as a 12-car; the split into three sets of four
cars was just for delivery.

Roland Perry wrote:
In message -septem
ber.org, at 14:41:50 on Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Recliner remarked:
http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new trains..."
press releases this week.

4 cars, when I thought 700's were going to be in fixed 8 and 12 car formations.

It's a 12-car train, delivered in three sets of four. They couldn't run as
an independent train that way.

On 2015\07\31 15:41, Recliner wrote:
http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new trains..."
press releases this week.

Why doesn't their class number start with a 3?

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

On 2015\07\31 15:41, Recliner wrote:


http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...-future-as-new
-thameslink-train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new
trains..." press releases this week.

Why doesn't their class number start with a 3?

For the same reason the IEP class numbers don't.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 2015\08\01 17:50, wrote:
In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

On 2015\07\31 15:41, Recliner wrote:


http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk...-future-as-new
-thameslink-train-arrives/

Claire Perry is really churning out those "I welcome these new
trains..." press releases this week.

Why doesn't their class number start with a 3?

For the same reason the IEP class numbers don't.

So no-one knows the answer then?