Class 175 Trains To Help Great Western Railway Improve Reliability Across The Network
The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release on Great Western Railway.
This is the sub-heading.
Great Western Railway (GWR) will welcome 26 Class 175 trains to its fleet to help improve punctuality and reliability for customers, replacing older diesel trains that are more expensive and less environmentally friendly to run.
These four paragraphs add more detail.
The move marks the first stage of the train operator’s plans to rejuvenate its regional and suburban services while preparing the way for decarbonisation.
The 10 two-car trains and 16 three-car trains are expected to start to enter service in Devon and Cornwall later this year, with the entire fleet expected to be operational from the end of next year.
Able to be connected in four, five and six-car formations, the trains will operate predominantly on the line between Exeter St Davids and Penzance, as well as to Barnstaple and Okehampton.
The Class 175s will release trains to improve performance in other areas of the network.
This would appear to be a start to rid the Great Western Railway of at least some of its elderly diesel trains.
But there will be a need for some two- and three-car self-powered trains for Great Western Railway’s many branch lines.
I would be looking at purchasing a number of hydrogen-powered Stadler RS-ZERO, that I wrote about in Stadler Presents A World First In Berlin.
They will be a quality train, that would do a job and being hydrogen-powered, their curiosity value would attract passengers.
They could also be used to develop new routes.
March 12, 2025 - Posted by AnonW | Hydrogen, Transport/Travel | Barnstaple Station, Class 175 Train, Exeter St. Davids Station, Great Western Railway, Okehampton Station, Penzance Station, Stadler RS ZERO
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Whats needed is a singular procurement exercise for the whole UK not each operator peddling its own small order and creating lots of one time costs in procurement, acceptance and testing that only benefits consultants.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | March 12, 2025 |
Having a ‘Guiding Mind’ in the shape of Great British Railways will help, but it will probably still be advisable to split orders if there’s a desire to retain a competitive market for new trains.
Comment by JohnC | March 13, 2025 |
Hopefully GWR will adopt a maintenance regime consistent with that originally was in place at Chester that gave good reliability and availability and not the maintenance regime in place when the units left Chester which gave rise to the fires and poorer availability and reliability due to the change of company operating Chester maintenance depot.
Comment by chilterntrev | March 12, 2025 |
As the units are powered by Cummins engines and there are only 72 cars, I wonder, if Cummins will offer to convert these engines to hydrogen.
If nothing else it would be good publicity.
If they succeeded, there are other multiple units powered by Cummins engines.
It should be remembered, that one of Cummins philosophies is to try and give the customer what they want. They are not a typical American company.
Comment by AnonW | March 12, 2025 |