Grand Central at Grange Park
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Grand Central at Grange Park
Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 17 Feb 2013
A Class 180 in the striking livery of Grand Central Trains crawls through Grange Park station on the Hertford Loop with the 12:00 Bradford to London Kings Cross service. The train has been diverted from its normal route along the mainline due to Sunday engineering works between Stevenage and Alexandra Palace. It is running early and has caught up with the local stopping service which results in the driver following a sequence of amber signals at slow speed. The Class 180 units were built by Alstom at their Washwood Heath plant in 2000/01 and delivered initially to First Great Western which christened them 'Adelante'. Unusually for a 125mph diesel train they have hydraulic rather than electric transmission. Initially there were a number of technical issues and most of the fleet was returned to the leasing company in 2008. they have returned to service now with First Great Western and Hull Trains in addition to Grand Central and improved reliability has been achieved as the maintenance teams gain a greater understanding of the problems and resolve them.
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