(03 Jul 2023, 4:23 pm)Storx wrote That must've changed relatively recently as last time I looked the timetables were all split by operator so stuff like the 29 you'd end up with 3 timetables. Complicated as an understatement.


Aye hopeless, I've found the same with Traveline aswell which is even worse, the idea of walking 200m is just alien and it comes up with some rather random routes as a result changing in totally inappropriate places.


Tbf it's quite an increase from now they've only got 35 operational units and that's when they're all on the tracks which they're not. Believe the current full daytime units is only 27 units or so, so there's a very lot of slack. If they can't operate that (will go upto 34 or so with the timetable increase) then there's something very wrong.

Mind hopefully the launch goes better than the Class 777's in Liverpool which are the same train thereabouts and having a bad time blighted with problems.

They've already started scrapping the old units, 4055 left last week after being out of action for quite some time, i suspect its been a parts donor, aswell as 4062 which were both residing in the centre in South Shields, so i expect that will go next, and most of us already know about 4022 which was uneconomical to repair after it derailed in the depot in 2017, i just wonder if its a little premature, 555001 and 555002 were sent back, and still havent arrived, so far they only have 555003/4/5 which are only in the testing phase