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Title: Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow Post by: grahame on April 08, 2016, 06:33:57 Headline "Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow" - North-West Evening Mail (http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/Trains-travelling-at-100mph-set-to-operate-in-Barrow--417acd02-ae36-4e4f-bd99-5bab5a244ac2-ds?)
So that'll be a track upgrade as well as news trains, will it? Or is this imprecise journalism? "100 .p.h. capable trains to operate in Barrow" perhaps ... at somewhat lower speed! Title: Re: Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow Post by: Rhydgaled on April 08, 2016, 08:15:57 Headline "Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow" - North-West Evening Mail (http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/Trains-travelling-at-100mph-set-to-operate-in-Barrow--417acd02-ae36-4e4f-bd99-5bab5a244ac2-ds?) I thought 100mph-capable class 185 trains already operate to Barrow, so maybe that should be "more Barrow services to be operated using 100mph trains".So that'll be a track upgrade as well as news trains, will it? Or is this imprecise journalism? "100 .p.h. capable trains to operate in Barrow" perhaps ... at somewhat lower speed! Title: Re: Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow Post by: the void on April 08, 2016, 09:22:41 I thought 100mph-capable class 185 trains already operate to Barrow, so maybe that should be "more Barrow services to be operated using 100mph trains". They did, under TPE, but as of this week these services have transferred to Northern, so presumably they don't any more. So it should be "Barrow services will be operated using 100mph trains again, but for now, not so much". Edit note: Quote marks fixed, for clarity. CfN. Title: Re: Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow Post by: the void on April 08, 2016, 09:38:12 Apparently they are currently subleasing 4 185s from TPE for these services. So yes, they are bragging about replacing 100mph capable trains with other 100mph capable train, which probably won't be able to travel at 100mph anyway.
Title: Re: Trains travelling at 100mph set to operate in Barrow Post by: simonw on April 08, 2016, 10:37:18 I think the article is really saying Pacers to be replaced with 100mph capable trains, and a new route to Manchester Airport.
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