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Any thought on what the class is or manufacturer 🙂
Spotted on a Open Day at Avonmouth Docks. Looks posh, dont know whether leaving the UK or just imported.
Very nice looking.
edited cos I'm totally wrong.
It's not a locomotive, it is a carriage.
Looks like the Mark 5A coaches for Transpennine Express. Built in Spain, so presumably just brought in.
CAF product can’t remember the number - for TransPennine Express
They'll be the CAF ones for TPE (as above)
Not the Hitachi ones for TPE
Should've got a photo with the number on the front/rear
All I can say with absolute confidence, is that is not a northern rail train, hahaha!
Yep it’s a mk5 DVT built by CAF. Being used by TPE in conjunction with their 68s.
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FWIW not all Voyagers have inside frames on the bogies - only 220s. 221s don’t.
https://www.railmagazine.com/news/fleet/first-transpennine-express-mk-5as-arrive-in-uk-1?image=26779
I love people who know their stuff.
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Its a Mk.5 driving trailer by CAF in Spain for the forthcoming loco hauled / propelled trains that Transpennine Express will be running between Liverpool and York hauled by class 68 diesels.
They're imported to Avonmouth and then hauled up to the North West for commissing / storage until later this year.
As above, en route to Longsight. I work for CAF in Beasain, sick of the sight of em 😉
I thought a DVT was used in conjunction with a locomotive. All the controls but unpowered to allow bi-directional use.
The photograph looks like part of a EMU or DMU.
As above it’s definitely an unpowered Dvt used in conjunction with class 68 - I’d guess they’d use the same bodyshell for a DMU though so can see where you’re coming from.
loco hauled on the transpennine route again - the gricers will have a field day!!!
*Dwayne Dibbley mode ON* Its not a DVT as its able to carry passengers and isn't solely a luggage van. Its probably a DBSO or similar. *Dwayne Dibbley mode OFF*
I thought a DVT was used in conjunction with a locomotive. All the controls but unpowered to allow bi-directional use.
The photograph looks like part of a EMU or DMU.
It's not actually a DVT (driving van trailer) because it's not a van as bigyinn observed, it's a driving trailer (force of habit above), but yes, it does run in conjunction with a class 68 loco, as has now been said many times 😉
Its not a DVT as its able to carry passengers and isn’t solely a luggage van. Its probably a DBSO or similar.
DBSO = driving brake standard open, it's not one of those either; those are the Scotrail/East Anglia mk2 coaches, it's a Mk5a driving trailer. DT. That's it. They're going to be formed into semi-permanent rakes of first-standard-standard-standard-driving trailer, with a 68 pushing/pulling.
This place never fails to impress me with its depth of knowledge, if we could only apply its power to peace in the Middle East or the Northern Ireland border issue.
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