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Post by Craig on Oct 22, 2007 20:24:45 GMT 1
For anyone like me who is strangely fascinated by the over-excited announcements guy on the class 333 Airedale and Wharfedale trains (Welcome! To the Bradford Forrrrster Squaaaare Train, don't forget your belongings even though you've only just boarded etc), a fairly amusing website I might suggest is youtube.com/watch?v=uyFLyIBmJxs or also myspace.com/tpeing - fancy a remix of some 90s dance anthems with next station annoucements? Nice to know its not just me who finds that voiceover guy amusing! Here come the men in the white coats to collect me... |
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Post by Burnside on Oct 23, 2007 0:27:44 GMT 1
That is hilarious! I just wish someone would have told the berk that the first r in the Forster of Bradford forster Square is silent! That really bugs me!
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Post by Craig on Oct 23, 2007 20:38:19 GMT 1
I thought it *was* pronounced as it is wrote?
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Post by Burnside on Oct 24, 2007 12:49:07 GMT 1
It's always been known as Foster Square
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Post by riclam on Nov 4, 2007 14:55:38 GMT 1
yep it has but proper way to say it Forster square!
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Post by Russ on Nov 19, 2007 16:43:47 GMT 1
Wjat to people think to the ride on there trains, I use them quite a lot between Leeds and Keighley and think there quite smooth.
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Post by Burnside on Nov 19, 2007 20:51:36 GMT 1
In their favour, they are quick, quiet and smooth, but i'm not a big fan.
They seem unreliable (maybe due to the fact that they operate 99.9% of services locally in my area and the occasional diesel never seems to fail), when they fail they seem to pass the fault on to the rescue unit and for me they are very bland with no character.
Plus, as one conductor i spoke to said, at least with a class 144, if something stops working, you just batter it with a hammer and it works again.
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Post by Craig on Nov 19, 2007 23:02:13 GMT 1
They are certainly very quick, quiet and smooth. One of their main problems though is that they are more suited for express work (like their cousins the class 332s on Heathrow Express) rather than local stopping services. As I once read on another forum, the 333s are rather like sending a space shuttle out to do a milk round. Possibly the fact they aren't best suited to urban routes with stops every few minutes results in breakdowns.
They may not be as characteristic as, say, a Pacer(!) but from an average passengers point of view they are impressive fast units. I certainly used to enjoy using them to and from Guiseley each day, especially with a non-stop 12-minute journey compared to well over an hour by bus!
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Post by olympian on Jul 29, 2008 22:16:52 GMT 1
Northern have started to repaint the 333's, I saw one of them at Nevile hill i think it was 333012, its in red and looks better than the livery used on the 321's. The new livery is like the old livery but with out the silver N.
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Post by stagecoach2008 on Jul 30, 2008 1:19:13 GMT 1
any photos
the song is by 60791 and is brill
they have done others too
like
we built this pacer - a better remix on we built this city
and come look at our bus doors - on pacer door
they should do more love there song all funny
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Post by Burnside on Jul 30, 2008 12:35:11 GMT 1
Northern have started to repaint the 333's, I saw one of them at Nevile hill i think it was 333012, its in red and looks better than the livery used on the 321's. The new livery is like the old livery but with out the silver N. It is 333002, saw it today at Ilkley and it looks fantastic! |
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Post by Craig on Jul 30, 2008 18:04:42 GMT 1
I've only seen photos so far, and haven't been too impressed... maybe I will like it better once I have seen it in the flesh?!
The reason it is still the same red is because of the paint warranty on these vehicles. Therefore blue sweeping vinyls with Northern logos and white doors (why not yellow which looked better?) have been applied.
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Post by jackh on Jul 30, 2008 18:17:25 GMT 1
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Post by Burnside on Jul 30, 2008 19:51:36 GMT 1
And another...  Taken by myself. |
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