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« Reply #60 on: November 04, 2009, 22:07:25 »
Should send them to Canton first, I'm sure Arriva must need to stock up on spare 142 parts Wink
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« Reply #61 on: November 04, 2009, 23:00:26 »
Quote from: woody on November 03, 2009, 23:14:43
Read that FGW▸ (First Great Western) has reached an agreement to recieve 30 class 150 vehicles from London Midland and London Overground in June 2010 which will all go through a refurbishment programme as part of the transfer process which will be a mixture of class 150/1 sets without end gangway doors and class 150/2 units with the doors.Some of the units are currently part of hybrid 3 car class 150/1 and 150/2 LM▸ (London Midland - recent franchise) combinations.Simultanenously FGW will stop leasing 4x2 car class 150/2s from Arriva,7x2 car class 142s from Northern Rail and 1x2 car 158 from SWT▸ (South West Trains) as well as ceasing to use a 4 coach loco hauled set,so a net gain of just 2 vehicles.

My high-up management type person in FGW also confirmed this was the plan as things stand.
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« Reply #62 on: November 04, 2009, 23:16:57 »
Hmm. I'd suggest it's well worth keeping in contact with that phufmtp, Donkey Guard! Wink
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« Reply #63 on: November 05, 2009, 01:58:27 »
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One for the Acronyms and Abbreviations page? Grin
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« Reply #64 on: November 05, 2009, 02:09:24 »
No, it's just another 'mouse hover' situation.  Grin
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #65 on: November 05, 2009, 09:54:33 »
 Grin..... it was fate that our paths crossed and one of things we were talking about were DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) cascade, unfortunately not likely to cross again in the forseeable future.
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« Reply #66 on: November 05, 2009, 14:58:52 »
I shall miss 142001. It's become quite a friend over the last couple of years. It's been raided for parts and christened 'scrapheap challenge' by the fitters yet still it bounces along, lurching from side to side and up and down as it trundles along the barny line. I think we should keep it and mount it on a plinth at the entrance to Exeter St Davids, rather like they put spitfires at the entrance to RAF▸ (Royal Air Force) bases. If the spitfire saved Britain then the 142 saved FGW▸ (First Great Western),sort of, maybe...
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« Reply #67 on: November 05, 2009, 16:24:50 »
Quote from: noddingdonkey on November 05, 2009, 14:58:52
I shall miss 142001. It's become quite a friend over the last couple of years. It's been raided for parts and christened 'scrapheap challenge' by the fitters yet still it bounces along, lurching from side to side and up and down as it trundles along the barny line. I think we should keep it and mount it on a plinth at the entrance to Exeter St Davids, rather like they put spitfires at the entrance to RAF▸ (Royal Air Force) bases. If the spitfire saved Britain then the 142 saved FGW▸ (First Great Western),sort of, maybe...

Sounds like a great idea to me!  Grin  It is the pioneer of the fleet after all!
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« Reply #68 on: November 05, 2009, 16:48:27 »
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Quote from: noddingdonkey on November 05, 2009, 14:58:52
I shall miss 142001. It's become quite a friend over the last couple of years. It's been raided for parts and christened 'scrapheap challenge' by the fitters yet still it bounces along, lurching from side to side and up and down as it trundles along the barny line. I think we should keep it and mount it on a plinth at the entrance to Exeter St Davids, rather like they put spitfires at the entrance to RAF▸ (Royal Air Force) bases. If the spitfire saved Britain then the 142 saved FGW▸ (First Great Western),sort of, maybe...

Sounds like a great idea to me!  Grin  It is the pioneer of the fleet after all!

Or maybe it could retire to here, just up the road in Sidmouth.
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« Reply #69 on: November 05, 2009, 18:11:27 »
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« Reply #70 on: November 10, 2009, 17:34:15 »
Quote from: noddingdonkey on November 05, 2009, 14:58:52
I shall miss 142001. It's become quite a friend over the last couple of years. It's been raided for parts and christened 'scrapheap challenge' by the fitters yet still it bounces along, lurching from side to side and up and down as it trundles along the barny line.

Bangs and rattles even more at one end since the Winsford Mods have been done to it....
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« Reply #71 on: November 10, 2009, 17:39:39 »
Perhaps we should give them to Stagecoach? Would supplement their clapped out bus fleet nicely.
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« Reply #72 on: November 10, 2009, 19:40:55 »
I would buy them if I had the line inplace to sidmouth! I would even lease a couple to the melksham project :-) ok now I just need about 100 mil for my 8 mile branch line and stations
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« Reply #73 on: November 11, 2009, 11:38:07 »
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I shall miss 142001. It's become quite a friend over the last couple of years. It's been raided for parts and christened 'scrapheap challenge' by the fitters

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« Reply #74 on: November 11, 2009, 18:11:34 »
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I would buy them if I had the line inplace to sidmouth! I would even lease a couple to the melksham project :-) ok now I just need about 100 mil for my 8 mile branch line and stations

Mil? That's far too cheap. I would say at least 100 bil - this is a small scale project!
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