DTG class 303 EMU

[thecheesemeister]

Virgin EastCoast?

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As of today, yep...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31680914

[CraigGilmour]

Glad to see AP taking the time to come up here to do this. Hopefully will get some good sounds out of it. Hopefully, if he gets a run out on it, that the diesel loco won't cause too much interference.
We could do with a wired preserved railway here to have full enjoyment of this unit.

Craig

[donny]

Awesome news! I'll go buy it once the soundpack is released

[spellow3010]

Glad to see AP taking the time to come up here to do this. Hopefully will get some good sounds out of it. Hopefully, if he gets a run out on it, that the diesel loco won't cause too much interference.
We could do with a wired preserved railway here to have full enjoyment of this unit.

Craig

I appreciate the sentiment, but we will never have a preserved railway with live OLE or 3rd rail. 'Enthusiasts' cannot behave themselves on the real railway let alone a preserved line. So many safety risks to have it looked after and clambored over by semi-professionals and pretenders. It would need 24 hour supervision of the OLE/3rd rail, or would require isolation, earthing and re-energising each operating day. It also begs the question where that would be fed from and controlled by. Not likely to be an existing electric control room.

Best hope is that money can be found to get these 'old relics' up to mainline standard (electrically safe/up to date, TPWS, GSMR etc) and let them roam where they should be.

Sad, but true. Would be great to see the 303 about, and the various AC electric locos let out from the zoo.

[smarty2]

Virgin EastCoast?

??

As of today, yep...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31680914

Wow, you learn something new everyday! Wonder how this setup will get on? Seems that the public owned time was very successful, makes you wonder why they flogged it off? Too much of a good advertisement for re nationalising?

[lenfish]

Virgin East Coast by name, Stagecoach own 90% of the franchise in reality!

Regards ,

Len

[TransportSteve]

I got this today in the sale and obtained the reskins by Richard Fletcher, (thank you Sir ), but, what routes in the game do we have (DLC and freeware) that we can play this on realistically, GARL, WCML, Liverpool to Manchester and possibly Woodhead, at a guess, but, are there any others, please, people??

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

[Alicatt]

I got this today in the sale and obtained the reskins by Richard Fletcher, (thank you Sir ), but, what routes in the game do we have (DLC and freeware) that we can play this on realistically, GARL, WCML, Liverpool to Manchester and possibly Woodhead, at a guess, but, are there any others, please, people??

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

There is another Glasgow area route in preparation: The North Clyde Lines http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 5&t=134216 More info here too http://glasgow-north-clyde-lines.blogspot.co.uk/

[TransportSteve]

Thank you, I'd forgotten about that one.

Cheerz. TS.

[749006]

To run the units on Woodhead it would have been after the 7th December 1984 when the voltage was changed to 25kv and three years after the tunnel was closed.

A 2000 version of the Woodhead line would be good with some of the sidings removed and newer signs & fittings on the station platforms.
Whizzing up the line and thru to Sheffield with an 86 would be nice - unfortunately I have only been as far as Hadfield with an 86.

Peter

[TransportSteve]

I'm only running from Manchester to Hadfield using these units, with a timeline of early 1985, whilst they were still in their BR Blue&Grey they were then given the GMPTE orange livery in late '85 early '86 I think. I use the timeline of 1983/4 for my Liverpool to Manchester route, before they were transferred to Woodhead, that way I also have a fair few Class 40's still available to play with as they were all withdrawn in January 1985.

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

[749006]

I'm only running from Manchester to Hadfield using these units, with a timeline of early 1985, whilst they were still in their BR Blue&Grey they were then given the GMPTE orange livery in late '85 early '86 I think. I use the timeline of 1983/4 for my Liverpool to Manchester route, before they were transferred to Woodhead, that way I also have a fair few Class 40's still available to play with as they were all withdrawn in January 1985.

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

Where between Liverpool & Manchester would you have seen any of these units in 1983/4?

[johnrossetti]

Quote > > but we will never have a preserved railway with live OLE or 3rd rail
No and for good reasons of safety as you say. BUT. there is nothing stopping an owner fitting a generator in a guards compartment 750v 1000a is adaquate to move a train a reduced speed. It may have been done to an EMU at a preserved railway already.

[rfletcher72]

Where between Liverpool & Manchester would you have seen any of these units in 1983/4?

In terms of the LivMan route, at the Manchester end, you would have seen them between the erstwhile Cornbrook Jn. and Piccadilly, working services to/from Altrincham (and perhaps match days services to/from the MUFC halt). At the Liverpool end, I am pretty sure when the units were transferred down from the ScR, they were initially used on Liverpool Crewe trains, and I have in the past seen them myself at Lime Street on such workings.

[TransportSteve]

Correct Richard, as per Wikipedia and this photograph from flickr, taken in August 1983.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/35663521@N04/3546512030/

Cheerz. TS.