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Title: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: charles_uk on May 11, 2023, 12:17:57 Realtime trains suggests a very unusual seven car train on today's 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford morning halts service. 2 x 2 car plus 1 x 3 car 165 units (165125, 165129 & 165106).
Presumably this was just to relocate the units and only one of the two car turbos would actually have been operational? Title: Re: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: ChrisB on May 11, 2023, 12:22:24 Need for refuelling?
Title: Re: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: grahame on May 11, 2023, 12:42:33 Need for refuelling? Likely. Almost certainly not due to anticipated high passenger demand from Ascott-under-Wychwood Title: Re: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: Witham Bobby on May 11, 2023, 12:47:59 It ran almost quarter of an hour late, too
Title: Re: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: Richard Fairhurst on May 12, 2023, 11:56:42 Need for refuelling? Likely. Almost certainly not due to anticipated high passenger demand from Ascott-under-Wychwood You could fit the entire population of Ascott-under-Wychwood (550) into that formation with 110 seats left empty... Title: Re: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: IndustryInsider on May 12, 2023, 13:04:45 I think one of the sets was sent to Oxford to take another faulty one back to Reading via Worcester later that morning that couldn’t be driven on its own.
Title: Re: 07:01 Worcester Shrub Hill to Oxford 11 May Post by: stuving on May 12, 2023, 17:06:44 I think one of the sets was sent to Oxford to take another faulty one back to Reading via Worcester later that morning that couldn’t be driven on its own. That was what I guessed, as the only vaguely logical reason the three-car unit would go on to Reading with another two-car in tow. Especially is it went back via ... Worcester. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |