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Reuters announce Chiltern Railways for sale
"JP" wrote in message oups.com... The three most reliable DMU Fleets at present are SWT 159s, TPE 185s and FGW 165/166s. Two of those are Barbie liveried, and the Chiltern Fleets are a few thousand MPC adrift of the top three. Am I right in thinking SWT haven't had the overhauled 158s long enough for meaningful statistics to be gathered yet? I guess they are hoping to achieve similar figures to the 159s in due course? Paul |
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Reuters announce Chiltern Railways for sale
On 6 Jul, 12:07, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"JP" wrote in message oups.com... The three most reliable DMU Fleets at present are SWT 159s, TPE 185s and FGW 165/166s. Two of those are Barbie liveried, and the Chiltern Fleets are a few thousand MPC adrift of the top three. Am I right in thinking SWT haven't had the overhauled 158s long enough for meaningful statistics to be gathered yet? I guess they are hoping to achieve similar figures to the 159s in due course? Paul I was speaking to one of their Salisbury based engineers a month back. SWT certainly intend their 158 and ex-158 DMUs to perform as well. They have always reported the 158/159 fleets as a combined figure in any case. Contrary to popular belief the idea of ATOC's NFRIP is to increase co-operation between commercial rivals and increase overall reliability. So with 158s from FGW going to Wabtec it makes sense to see what worked well and not so well with other operators. SWTs fleet visit Salisbury very regularly and get tender loving care, other operators can have their fleets stuck in sidings away from depots for several days at a time so I suspect SWT will always have or be very near the top spot DMU wise. |
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Reuters announce Chiltern Railways for sale
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, JP wrote:
SWTs fleet visit Salisbury very regularly and get tender loving care Hmm. I suppose with the demise of steam, trains now have to go to great lengths to get some tender lovin'. Didn't realise Salisbury Depot was now functioning as a rolling stock brothel, though. Insert jokes about greasy coupling etc as desired. Sorry. tom -- Tech - No Babble |
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