Avanti West Coast

[mikestone]

I was wondering if it might be this Monday as the 17.05 Euston-Blackpool (or its ECS moves from and to Oxley) isn't showing cancelled next week, but if it is it seems to be going to be a very low key launch.
(Until now It has been cancelled, well in advance, every day since it appeared in the timetable)

[Dom]

I was wondering if it might be this Monday as the 17.05 Euston-Blackpool (or its ECS moves from and to Oxley) isn't showing cancelled next week, but if it is it seems to be going to be a very low key launch.
(Until now It has been cancelled, well in advance, every day since it appeared in the timetable)

There's no 1705 EUS-BPN service showing anywhere.

[mikestone]

It is in Real Time Trains but since I posted yesterday, has changed to CAN so either it was overlooked for next week, or perhaps it was intended/hoped to run it but in view of this past week's abysmal cancellation record they have thought better of it?

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

Just seen a 390 going down the Walsall to Wolverhampton Line today I assume there is engineering works on the Trent Valley Line there was last time I saw an Avanti going this way

[Tony]

Just seen a 390 going down the Walsall to Wolverhampton Line today I assume there is engineering works on the Trent Valley Line there was last time I saw an Avanti going this way

Not Trent Valley line, It is just services from the North to Birmingham that are going that way

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

Not Trent Valley line, It is just services from the North to Birmingham that are going that way

Oh OK fair enough 

[mikestone]

No - Trent Valley line is blocked today.

[Wba_lad]

221 114, 221 115 and 221 116 have now left avanti west coast, and are showing as being with Beacon rail, I have heard they will be joining crosscountry soon, they have had their avanti vinals removed.

[Trident 4194]

19:40 out of euston showing on RTT as 20 coach pendolino? Surely not right. 

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

19:40 out of euston showing on RTT as 20 coach pendolino? Surely not right.

Unless they have a 390/1 and a 390/0 coupled up together. That's longer than the Cali Sleeper the longest train I believe that serves Euston and only stops at Crewe and Preston in England. 20 cars wouldn't fit at any platform anywhere In the UK. I think even Eurostars that stop in England aren't as long. The ones that don't aren't 20 cars though might be wr9nh

[Tony]

Unless they have a 390/1 and a 390/0 coupled up together. That's longer than the Cali Sleeper the longest train I believe that serves Euston and only stops at Crewe and Preston in England. 20 cars wouldn't fit at any platform anywhere In the UK. I think even Eurostars that stop in England aren't as long. The ones that don't aren't 20 cars though might be wr9nh

Same as bustimes see things in reality, not of a tracking system. All that will have happened is a unit swap due to a defect and the original unit not removed from the system so both show.

[BlackCountryBusSpotter]

No Service North of Preston due to a Frieght Train derailment blocking the line

[Wba_lad]

Does anyone know when the class 807s are due to enter service?

[danny]

I believe a few are in service already, also see them on test to and from Wolverhampton station regularly, they stop at platform 2 then go back to Oxley I believe.

[Tony]

I believe a few are in service already, also see them on test to and from Wolverhampton station regularly, they stop at platform 2 then go back to Oxley I believe.

Only the 805s are in passenger use so far