Javelin Train

[Parkey]

It's arrived in the UK

[scrabble]

hopefully those windscreen wipers work!!!

[lws1984]

Looks like Yet Another Bendy Dildo™.

A nice-looking one, though.

Kinda like the hot love child of an original Shinkansen train and a Class 89.

[andel]

Looks like Yet Another Bendy Dildo™.

A nice-looking one, though.

Kinda like the hot love child of an original Shinkansen train and a Class 89.

Not a Bendy Dildo - this is a different train that doesn't tilt!

More of a Wobbly Lipstick!

[Parkey]

It's a bullet train capable of 186mph* with a third rail pickup. I still find that amusing.

*I read it in Rail magazine, so it must be true

[andel]

It's a bullet train capable of 186mph* with a third rail pickup. I still find that amusing.

*I read it in Rail magazine, so it must be true

I read raiL in the mirror...

[Illegal_Alien]

Those doors are ugly, why are they "sinked" in the body?

[Ameecher]

They supposedly fail less because the mechanism to open them isn't as complex. It's also the way that the Bullet trains are built so I spose it was based upon them.

[Parkey]

The train is built by Hitachi in Japan rather than one of the usual European companies: Bombardier, Alstom or Siemens. As far as I can see all of Hitachi's trains have doors like that, including the Shinkansen trains.

[lws1984]

Looks like Yet Another Bendy Dildo™.

A nice-looking one, though.

Kinda like the hot love child of an original Shinkansen train and a Class 89.

Not a Bendy Dildo - this is a different train that doesn't tilt!

More of a Wobbly Lipstick!

Being Yet Another Bendy Dildo™ doesn't have anythign to do with tilting, it has to do with the shape!

[andel]

The train is built by Hitachi in Japan rather than one of the usual European companies: Bombardier, Alstom or Siemens. As far as I can see all of Hitachi's trains have doors like that, including the Shinkansen trains.

Sunk doors are for faster opening, closing due to the plug mech not getting caught with people.

[Parkey]

Oooh! There's a video on the BBC website.

[Ameecher]

That video claims that SWT and Southern trains run at 90mph, last time I looked they run at 75mph and 100mph. The ironic thing is that it doesn't even mention SETs current services that these things are going to run as an alternative. SWT and Southern are fairly irrelevant.

[andel]

But this is the press, Gav! Anyway, SWT Class 158/159s run at 90MPH.

[Parkey]

The report is a local one for BBC South Today in Southampton, so they're probably trying to put it in context for their audience.

[Ameecher]

But this is the press, Gav! Anyway, SWT Class 158/159s run at 90MPH.

And those are real commuter trains for the South of England into London...

[Parkey]

Interestingly Hitachi are also shortlisted as a bidder in the Intercity Express Program™ to replace the HST*.

*The Class-91 will never be replaced! Never never never!

[Dave]

The Class 91 will almost certainly be replaced as soon as a suitable 'leccy-powered replacement is found.

[andel]

The 91 won't see replacement for a short while yet, but IEP is still 8-10 years off completion...

[Kevo00]

Surely the 91 has about 15 years left, easily! Probably be on operator four or five by then (BR, GNER, NatEx,?).