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As of today 19 of the 24 electrics have been delivered to Weston, Hengrove is getting 64 but I think the depot hasnt finished being upgraded.

The upgraded Hengrove Depot was officially opened on Monday with dignitaries taken for a ride around Bristol on one of the new Yutong double deckers.  Five electric buses were at the opening, four double deck and one single deck.  Hengrove should have 74 new electric buses in service by the end of the summer, the majority being double deck.

The new timetables are now on the NXWM website.  It appears that the 15 will be interworking with the 2/2A at Merry Hill.  If this means the use of E200s on the 15 then there are going to be serious capacity issues at certain times of the day.

In addition, although the 15/16 are shown as a single timetable, the 16A is shown as a separate timetable.  Surely these journeys should be included in a single 15/16/16A timetable.

221108 and 221113 are now in service with Cross Country meaning 6 of the 12 Avanti units are now in use. It does look like 221107 through to 221118 will be the 12 transferring over.

Yes, 221107 to 221118 are the 12 sets transferring.  CrossCountry has said that all 12 sets should be in use by the timetable change on 18 May.  

Must be quite a profitable game as quite a few track workers in orange on site Sunday morning? Not seen the tram in Coventry recently though. Is it still at Dudley?

It was certainly being tested at Dudley about three weeks ago.

Realtime Trains is now showing the train formations for West Midlands Railway and London NorthWestern Railway services.

The following was published in Rail Business Daily today.
https://news.railbusinessdaily.com/universal-signalling-supporting-colas-rail-to-deliver-coventry-very-light-rail-demonstrator-track/

Seems like the first Yutong has entered service on the X1 this morning. Only 1 is out, Weston have had more deliveries of them, the past week or so.

https://bustimes.org/vehicles/fbri-30024

There are six in service today on the X1.

Hengrove getting Yutongs aswell, I think more than Weston but not sure exactly when.

Hengrove is getting 74 electrics later in the year.  The depot is not due to be ready until July. 

4860 on service 15E to Wall Heath.  it arrived at Merry Hill 35 minutes late with 4983 riding shotgun on the service 15 that should have been 30 minutes behind.

Hourly Manchester Piccadilly to Bristol Temple Meads (southbound only) and Plymouth to Edinburgh (northbound only) will be stopping at Worcestershire Parkway station from the May timetable change.

This page has been added to the WMR website today regarding short formations.

https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/about-us/our-performance/performance-update

There was a planned movement of ETMS fitted units 197030 and 197034 from Holyhead to Machyllnech last Thursday but it was cancelled at Chester.

I note there is a 197 scheduled for Tywyn tomorrow. Not that common is it?  2J11 to Pwllheli at 1325 and 17:27 return to 2G65 Machynlleth. Unit 197044

According to RTT, 2J11 has left Machynllech with 158838 in charge.  I'm not surprised as this service starts at Birmingham International as 1J11 and is split at Machynllech.  In addition, ETMS fitted Class 197s are not yet cleared for passenger service although the rail press has reported that test runs between Shrewsbury and Machyllnech are being undertaken.  Finally, 197044 is not ETMS fitted for use on the Cambrian lines.

The units that will be used on these services will all be 197/0 2-car units, mostly running in multiple formations.  21 sets (197003 and 197022 to 197041) will be fitted with ETCS for use on the Cambrian line.  Holyhead services will have to use these sets as Cambrian and Holyhead services interwork at Birmingham International (i.e. a train arriving from Holyhead returns to Aberystwyth/Pwllheli, and vice versa).   

There were next stop announcements on 6796 on WN 15A this morning.  This is the first time I have heard any next stop announcements on WN services 15/15A/16.  Before now, all we've had is smoke signals!