Talk:British Rail Class 222

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You're not even going to tell us where they're made? How can they be "British Rail" so many years after privatisation? Please explain that too. --kingboyk 21:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Grand Central

Are Grand Central planning to use Meridians, Pioneers or have ther own form of 222? Simply south 13:23, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

No order has been placed so are presumed to be using High Speed Trains (Class 43). Chaz247 21:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

It actually shows on their website a set of Class 222. See [1] Simply south 21:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm aware of that. Grand Central have also previous had on there website Class 158s, Class 64 + Mk3s and HSTs. No order has been placed with Bombardier and production has ceased. In a recent Rail Magazine it was stated that they are refurbishing a High Speed Train to 1000v ETS to use in 2007. Chaz247 18:19, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9 car meridians to have coach removed and placed on the 4 car meridians?

According forum members on this this website - http://www.railwayscene.co.uk/showthread.php?thread=1847. All the 9 car meridians are to have a coach removed so they are then 8 car meridians, the removed coach will then be added to some of the 4 car meridians to turn them into 5 car meridians. Does anybody know if this is true, i have not seen anything about this on any other websites, so did not want to add anything about it to the main article

If you click here then you will see that 222004 has 8 carriages and 222014 has 5. Although this is just a trial at the moment, it does look like it will be a success and that 6 other carriages will be transferred between trains. Edvid 05:18, 31st October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Subclasses

I have read somewhere that the MML sets are not 222/0, but rather were 222/4 and 222/9 (dependent on length). Am I right or am I wrong? Chris cheese whine 20:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hull Trains

"Recently an additional stop was introduced at Howden"

How relevent is this statement? It appears irrelevent to my eye, but could it be as a result of the faster journey times? 82.40.75.55 22:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Not sure now. additional stops hjave been added at Retford and Stevenage. Simply south 23:30, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 222017 taken out of service : more details

I was told that by a member of staff (who was also a rail enthusiast).

The statement that 017 is out of service is correct, and i can prove this, as i have seen nothing of it in the way of photos on fotopic since Thursday (the day it was taken out of service).

Also, I can trust that that person is correct, as they told me a EMT class 153 would be coming in at 11.00, and they were correct.

ACBestDog and Bone 15:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Who is this who posts pictures of every train in service to fotopic on a daily basis? Still, the member of staff in question probably knows what he/she's talking about, though I'm not sure if random personal communications count as sources as far as Wikipedia policy is concerned. Moreover, you still haven't provided any evidence for the bit that caught my attention – "apparently this is something to do with the yellow on the front of the unit not covering a sufficient area". -- Smjg (talk) 13:57, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
It's the sort of information that belongs on something like news:uk.railway but not Wikipedia. A pillar (RULE) of Wikipedia is "verifiability not truth". Check out no original research and verifiability. – Kieran T (talk) 14:04, 19 November 2007 (UTC)