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Spotted 647 during my walk past Whitby RMF today.

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Question: how often are coaches cycled in and out of consists?

As infrequently as possible. Consists will generally stay together until a particular car has a problem that necessitates removing it for individual attention. Periodic inspections happen as much as possible without breaking up consists.

- Paul
 
Question: how often are coaches cycled in and out of consists?
There are mandatory tests that are required to be done with the coach on its own. I believe they happen every 3 or 6 months - I can't honestly recall the interval, but it is one of those two.

But as Paul correctly points out, ultimately you want to do it as little as possible. This is why they use "Progressive Maintenance" bays and service whole trainsets as much as they can.

Dan
 
Never thought to post these here until now! Here are a few older concepts for GO that might be of interest!

High-floor Bi-Levels concept by Hawker Siddeley:

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GO wasn’t interested in high floor boarding, this was just a concept made by the manufacturer.

Colourised version:

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The engine seen in the images above appears to be Hawker Siddeleys Futura engine, I don’t think it was ever built:

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Interior:

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The screen on the right is a seat occupancy screen, which would display which seats on the upper or lower level were taken.

Exterior and interior concept art of the low-floor Bi-Level:

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Diagram made by Hawker Siddeley showing the modular aspect of the Bi-Level design:

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There was a 4th module not shown in this diagram that would have replaced the passenger areas with engines to make the coach a multiple unit, which was never ordered by any agency.

Not sure what this engine was called, I think F60PH? Could be wrong on that:

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Never thought to post these here until now! Here are a few older concepts for GO that might be of interest!

High-floor Bi-Levels concept by Hawker Siddeley:

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GO wasn’t interested in high floor boarding, this was just a concept made by the manufacturer.

Colourised version:

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Interior:

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The screen on the right is a seat occupancy screen.

Exterior and interior concept art of the low-floor Bi-Level:

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Diagram made by Hawker Siddeley showing the modular aspect of the Bi-Level design:

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There was a 4th module not shown in this diagram that would have replaced the passenger areas with engines to make the coach a multiple unit, which was never ordered by any agency.

Not sure what this engine was called, I think F60PH? Could be wrong on that:

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There was an EMU version also.
 

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