No prancing hares or 25 men and women in suits for this one, but at 0604 this morning the first 3 car Stadler bi-mode for Greater Anglia quietly entered service on the Ipswich - Felixstowe line. 755336 was the unit given the honours, and I was on it. The first bum on the first 3 car and no one can take that away from me!
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| 3 car 755336 at Ipswich having arrived out of service from Norwich |
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| Brand new, smelling very new too! |
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| Where else would you want to go on a windy, rainy Thursday morning! |
To be honest I couldn't tell the difference between the 3 and 4 car versions. I was hoping for even better acceleration but given the conditions I can fully understand the driver taking it easy.
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| The 3 car sits at Felixstowe |
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| A quiet Felixstowe Station |
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| View from the Felixstowe end driving cab. |
I was joined by Tim for the second journey when the darkness had faded enough to get a picture at Felixstowe showing the full length of the train.
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| The 3 car unit in its glory |
The single car class 153's are being taken out of service at the end of the week. I will be attempting to capture them all in their final hours on our patch before heading to pastures new in Wales.
I was going to say, "You can keep your 153s", but we're so stuffed for rolling stock here in Wales that we'll take anything that's heading our way!
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ReplyDeleteThe new trains are already off to a bad start with a worryingly high failure rate
Services between Ipswich and Peterborough are set to be disrupted for a third day due to a train fault.
Trains were suspended completely between the two stations on Monday with further cancellations hitting the line on Tuesday.
Greater Anglia have already cancelled a number of services for Wednesday including:
08:03 Ipswich to Peterborough
09:50 Peterborough to Ipswich
12:01 Ipswich to Peterborough
13:50 Peterborough to Ipswich
16:01 Ipswich to Peterborough
17:50 Peterborough to Ipswich
The 3-car sets only have two engines (compared to four in the 4-car sets), so will probably be a bit slower off the mark.
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