Trans Pennine Express - testing times.

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Today's test train was made up of  two Trans Pennine Express units .. both built in Japan. One was in base white livery but this one was in the TPE livery it will work in. They are bi modal units designed to allow Network Rail to quietly drop their plans to electrify the trans Pennine Route. There is no money for it... after all it is north of Watford so why would we need it?

Note the absence of a yellow end on both sets. Note also that they are working from the overhead.


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