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Originally Posted by ACustomer
All 3 spare coaches are standards ??!! This looks very short-sighted. Surely the DVTs are (a) absolutely indispensible to the running of any and every CDE train and (b) are easily the most complicated part of the kit with lots of thing which can go wrong. Madness not having 10 of them.
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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
To run an hourly timetable you need 7 working sets, there are 8 full sets on order plus 3 spare standards.
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Makes perfect sense, there is one full spare train plus 3 further standards, there are 43 standard coaches out of a total of 67 so it is right to more spares. The enterprise setup has one single spare of each type, there is no fallback. IE learned the leasons from that and now there is one full spare set full a few of the most common coach type. It would of course by lovely to have heaps of spares but try selling that to the DoT