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Old 2nd December 2020, 16:12   #21
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I think my seat costs something well into five figures, but I agree the other few hundred seats are rigor mortis, ghastly thrones!


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Old 2nd December 2020, 17:57   #22
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Thanks Mick,
East Coast Azumas are no better...! However, the shortened ones [23 metre] for East Midlands [Auroras] are having new seats for the paying customers and designed by a firm in Derby according to local TV news.

Lets hope for my back!
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Old 2nd December 2020, 21:51   #23
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Thanks Mick,
East Coast Azumas are no better...! However, the shortened ones [23 metre] for East Midlands [Auroras] are having new seats for the paying customers and designed by a firm in Derby according to local TV news.

Lets hope for my back!
That will be Bombardier then, I used to mould the seat armrests for them.
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Old 2nd December 2020, 22:20   #24
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Bring back the unrefurbished mk3s. Royal Carriage compared to today’s park benches....


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Old 3rd December 2020, 10:38   #25
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Back in the early 70’s, as a service engineer en-route to the Isle of Wight, I was doing a fair lick to catch (from memory) the 5.00am Portsmouth ferry. The first of the day (then) and the only one you could get on in the summer, without pre-booking, or joining the stand by queue.

Somewhere North of Chichester, in a wooded area, a deer shot across the road, only 1 or 2 Feet in front of my Rover P6 2000SC. I instinctively looked in my windscreen mirror to check that I really had missed it, and clearly saw the fox, that was chasing it.

I had driven through the gap between them.
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Oh well, sometimes good things come from bad.

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Old 3rd December 2020, 12:18   #27
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I had a few train/animal incidents including ploughing through half a dozen bullocks at 75mph, that was a mess to put it mildly.

Had some funny ones as well though. Taking a loco through to Glasgow came onto a track maintenance 20mph speed restriction and found a sheep wandering along between the rails! I had a 2750hp, 95mph loco and I'm going along at sheep's walking pace behind this thing that refused to get out of the way despite the warning horn and me hanging of of the cab window shouting at it, Finally moved to the side.

Another one belonged in a Will Hay film. I was cautioned to run at reduced speed because of an "incident" ahead. I approached said "incident" and discovered a rail worker with a large broom tentatively trying to persuade a billy goat with huge horns back into the field beside the line. He was shoving it with the broom but it was shoving him back just as hard.
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Old 3rd December 2020, 12:46   #28
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Not had anything like that, but during the breeding season I’ve had more pheasants than I can remember. The 800s seem to be pretty robust, the deer just took off the front air dam and cracked a copper air line to the front coupler. 165s are less sturdy, once saw a pheasant puncture the front panel into the cab! The worst I saw was an HST that hit something so hard they had to take the entire cab off and rebuild it. It was on a rig at Laira and it’s mind boggling how something from the 70’s was wired up, it looked like an old phone exchange..


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Old 3rd December 2020, 13:44   #29
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The 802s tpe use are pretty reliable and not built to a budget.
The CAF 397s are a world apart in terms of quality, not even been a year in service and the reliability is shocking, as I type this,my train from Edinburgh to Manchester Airport is 1 hr 7 minutes late due to a fault, fire alarm triggered and wont turn off.
I've been on units where the roof panels are hanging down, bits of stainless steel edging in the galley falling off,tpws issues ,cameras failing etc.
Built down to a price but at least the md picked out the most expensive carpet for first class.

Been driving trains for 18 years now a touch wood been lucky with the suicides.(probably shouldn't of said that)

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Been driving trains for 18 years now a touch wood been lucky with the suicides.(probably shouldn't of said that)

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I had one, knew guys who'd had more than one. I always took the attitude that it was a possibility . . . . doesn't prepare you for if it happens! Taking a freight train down to Tyne Yard (Newcastle) one afternoon, as I approached a footbridge in the Forrest Hall area on the northern outskirts of the city a guy stepped out from behind the bridge support and just stood in the four foot, not a thing I could do.
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