Talk:Avanti West Coast

Class 221 withdrawal date

To clarify that the date for the replacement of the 221s has slipped to 2023, Modern Railways states: Hitachi’s Newton Aycliffe plant has a relatively modest beat rate of five vehicles a week. The current order book covers 135 vehicles (Classes 805/807) for Avanti West Coast, plus a further 165 for East Midlands Railway (Class 810). With the Avanti order slipping back and both fleets now not due into service until 2023. Beetherg (talk) 00:22, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Future

Given the recent problems of Avanti, given the unclear future of the firm, given the lack of sources in most of the paragraphs AND given the not very high relevance of possibly changing trains within the next decade --- all this together I edited out all paragraphs about the future, or better: a future. These paragraphs were either written bei Avanti themselves or by hardcore train enthusiasts and to my opinion dont fulfill the high standards of WP regarding future events. See "WP is not a crystal ball". PLS state only facts a.k.a. things that exist. 95.90.129.68 (talk) 11:55, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey Matt (dont want to edit war): the future fleet paragraph is partially sourced, but still has the problem of relevance and a problem of stating plans as facts. These things MIGHT happen, it's not that they're bound to happen, as the paragraph implies. And even IF they happen, I doubt, that they are relevant in a way to mention them almost a DECADE before they happen. It lacks notability, it lacks certainty, it lacks relevance. These things of course will change after the fact, but right now they are not given. 95.90.129.68 (talk) 12:02, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for coming to the talk page: certainly better than an edit war! Given that a fair few sources are able to back up the ordering of the units - and that construction has (I think??) already started, willing to be corrected - I would say that it is fine to include them. I think the Crystal Ball problem is for more speculative events, particularly when things remain unsourced - here almost everything on these units is sourced, bar the sentence about the tilting function (which, imo, is trivial at most!). I'm willing to leave this to other editors to establish a definite conclusion on whether it should be included, so if a consensus emerges here for it to be removed, then it can go. However, given it's been there for some time, I'll leave it there until anyone says otherwise. Thanks again for engaging in a respectful discussion! Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 12:27, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

I'm with @Mattdaviesfsic - keep things as they are with sourced content until new (sourced) facts emerge. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:02, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Name

Is there a rationale for the name "Avanti"? For example, is it based on the Italian for "move forward", or the Indian female given name? Was the name generated by a marketing/branding firm like Wolff Olins, or is there some other history? — The Anome (talk) 15:55, 26 September 2023 (UTC)