(24 Aug 2023, 3:08 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote Another one has entered service unsure of what but is tracking as 19672 which is at Sunderland I believe. Looks like once they’re finally all here they’ll be used on the service 1. I am surprised it’s the 196**’s that seem to be going I would have thought it would have been the 194**’s as they’re older.
yeah im really confused by this, if the rumors are true then the 196**s are going to torquay, I thought the whole point of the diverted batch was to help replace the hybrids, if ten or so of the the 196 s are going that means no hybrids are getting replaced.
i would have thought if torquay are that desperate, why would you not take the opportunity to send the hybrids to Manchester where there are large numbers still in service to see out their days, for argument sake lets say out of the 26 Newcastle hybrids they decided to use 20 in service, you could still cascade around 15 of the older E400s in Manchester to torquay to oust some tridents