it's very chilly
it's very gray it's very misty
the left here i can't do the complicated
three two one
but thanks to ted rogers and welcome
once again ladies and gentlemen to
another saturday edition of your
favorite game show of three two one
and uh dusty bin in the three two one
game show
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these old cronky trains are
but as of this week last week
something new and shiny from bombardier
is taking over
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so this is the new class 720
from bombardier it's the uh adventurer
uh family of trains which there's a few
variants we'll talk about those in a
moment but this is oh we're leaving
there this is the greater anglia variant
out on the south end victoria lion
we will be calling at pockley rayleigh
wickford illuricki shenfield
rumford stratford and london liverpool
street
that is a very clear and concise pa
there's no way that you weren't going to
hear that so
old trains are the three two ones
new trains from bombardier the
adventurer family of trains i'll do a
little diagram in a minute
next stop will be hockley they might be
familiar to you but what's fascinating
about this is that their walk through
carriages with
regular style seatings i.e the london
overground and crossroads
style trains have got the seats either
side
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every train is brand new with
state-of-the-art features
and modern as you would expect and very
different to what our customers are used
to traveling on the south end line
there's an increased number of seats
every train has 544 seats
on a five-car train the train was
designed obviously a pre-pandemic
so we were obviously catering to the
needs of our customers and the requests
for increased number of seats on board
so we've
maximized the space the temperature on
the train is controlled by an air
conditioning system
and the um system has been designed to
operate throughout temperatures of minus
25
to 40 degrees
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i've been invited to feel the floor why
what what you say it's warm
it's underfloor heating it's
the only trains in the uk to have under
full heating do any of the other
ventures have under floor heating which
is just the 720p well certainly not the
ones that have been built so far so hang
on so when c2c get theirs
then they have underfloor heating as
well
but it's just a nice smooth carpety feel
with underfloor heating
so i'm told that the seats are sort of
this s-shaped ergonomically designed and
have been approved for up to two and a
half hours worth of uh
sitting comfortably the three two ones
had first class the 720s don't have
first-class that's okay
in surveys that were done with
passengers passengers on this line
actually said
and another in a suburb and greater
angular roots that they'd rather have
more seats
than have first class so that was uh
feedback from passenger surveys
themselves so first class has been
removed in favor of just having more
standard class seats
and this is the point where you can
magically walk through
into the other area and it's level
and that's what's weird so i'm kind of
used to it on the on the overground
trains the 710s and on the crossroads
range of three four fives but they're
the seating port is to the side here
the seating is in the classic sort of
three two arrangement it's very strange
you used to have a three two seated
track
that you can then walk through
as we approached shemfield it actually
said change for the elizabeth vlog
not yet yukon that's a little bit it's a
little bit early
i'm really warm by the way these truck i
don't know if the underfloor
heating or maybe they're just better
insulated i'm i can't take my jacket off
because i've got a breakfast stain down
my top but i'm
really warm and i'm thinking on a cold
misty
it is misty december morning i'm really
really warm so
mainly what i'm taking away is how nice
and cosy and warmer trains are that's
what i'm
that's what i'm thinking
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welcome to this service for london
liverpool street
we romford stratford
and london liverpool street can confirm
there's a loud pa
inside the space saving toilet as well
come down to this area
because we're in the bike area which the
old staff would
and as per the instructions you put your
pedal in here
two of these change for london
overground
and elizabeth line and then straps
nice to go over and kick your bike in
place
so i spoke earlier about this being the
bombardier adventurous set of trains
in case you don't know what i mean these
have been used on crossrail and on
overground
we're also going to ctc and to west
midlands as well as greater anglia
so here's a quick diagram which i've
drawn at home to talk about where these
types of trains are being used
do you know what i'm still at home
editing and i've just got to the point
where i realized at no point did i
do the elbow test to see if there was a
space
where you could rest your elbow by the
window i completely forgot to do that on
the 720
and i'm slightly aghast and disappointed
with myself
i promise the next time i'm on one i'll
take a picture and tweet it
sorry now a trip that seemed to go very
quickly i'm at
liverpool street i'm going to walk to
that end and get a shot of the train
pulling out and just see how long it is
compared to the 12 car train
it's very odd having us of a three by
two
there's a little bit squashed in
configuration on a ventra
style train but the seats are really
nice it's
really bright the information's good
you've got the accessible area which the
old train didn't have
super huge toilet that's really good and
it's warm as well
really nice cozy warm train that is the
new
bombardier class 720
rolling out now to greater anglia
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you