Tsw 3 Route Suggestion: Greater Anglia: Southend Victoria-liverpool Street

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  1. karan#5946

    karan#5946 Well-Known Member

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    Hello guys welcome back to another Suggestion!
    Today we are suggesting the Greater anglia!
    Let’s start the suggestion now!
    Greater Anglia (legal name Abellio East Anglia Limited) is a train operating company in Great Britain owned as a joint venture by Abellio, the international arm of the state-owned Dutch national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen, and the Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co.

    Southend Victoria railway station is the eastern terminus of the Shenfield to Southend Line in the East of England, a branch off the Great Eastern Main Line, and is one of the primary stations serving the resort city of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

    Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without.

    So the line would call at Prittlewell’ Southend airport’ Rochford’ Hockley’ Rayleigh’ Wickford’
    Billericay’ Shenfield’ Stratford’ And London Liverpool Street.

    So the units that operate on this line is the British rail class 321’322
    And the class 720
    Let’s see more detail about these Units.
    The British Rail Class 321 are electric multiple unit passenger trains built by British Rail Engineering Limited's Holgate Road carriage works in three batches between 1988 and 1991. The class uses alternating current overhead electrification.
    The British Rail Class 322 are electric multiple unit passenger trains which were built by British Rail Engineering Limited in 1990 for the Stansted Express service from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport.
    And the class 720 now!
    The British Rail Class 720 Aventra is a class of electric multiple-unit (EMU) passenger train designed and produced by the rolling stock manufacturer Bombardier Transportation. Orders for the type have been placed by both Greater Anglia and c2c.
    The length of the
    Route is 1 hour and 2 minutes.
    It goes from London to Southend.
    Everyone goodnight and also pictures of everything is down below to make sure you look to get a better look.
    Tell me your thoughts.
    Bye everyone.
     

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  2. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    Good suggestion. The mix of older and newer units will give people who like both or either something to do on this route.
     
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  3. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    You could potentially have the Class 345 operating Elizabeth line services from Liverpool Street as far as Shenfield too - and given these are part of the Aventra family of EMUs (similar to the Class 720) it might make it more feasible to include. You could even have the Class 315 operating these services which are the 4-car variant of the Class 314 we already have.
     
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  4. karan#5946

    karan#5946 Well-Known Member

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    Yea the Elizabeth line Shenfield line should be in the DLC
     
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  5. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    As I've said elsewhere "Yes to anything in Essex".
    You may be interested to know that Abellio walking away from all UK Rail business though the trading name of Greater Anglia will remain.
    I agree that a mixture of old and new stock always makes things more interesting. The 321s and 720s are very different beasts providing differing challenges.
    Incidentally, the ex-Northern 321/9s and 322s are all withdrawn and some have now been scrapped. The Renatus 321s only have one official working on the Southend Victoria line (though a number have sneaked out in the last couple of weeks), Ilford and Southend-based drivers signed to drive the 321s will be in short supply soon.
     
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  6. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    even better is combing this as a network route with GEML London to Ipswich 70 miles TSC remade for TSW 3 then the Southend Victoria Branch 22 miles from Shenfield where Southend Victoria services split from Ipswich trips. You now have a 92-mile route made up of GEML London Ipswich and 22 miles Shenfield to Southend Victoria. Norwich Bound Trips Class 745/755 Southend Victoria Class 720
     
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  7. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, would make a cracking DLC, though personally I'd prefer the Clacton/Walton branch as I live next to it and it's a good run to London with some nicer countryside.
     
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  8. Budgieboy2525

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    I too would love to see a greateranglia addon. Aswell as the Southend class 720’s and 321’s you could also have the Norwich to London route with the class 745 and older class 90’s.
     
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