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Here at Cardiff Central you can see the
17:40 Portsmouth Harbour on Platform 1 - Four carriage 158
17:25 Portsmouth Harbour on Platform 2 - Five carriage 158
(and the 17:04 inbound on Platform 3.)
There are nine carriages leaving for Portsmouth within fifteen minutes of each other and the 17:25 is so very, very pleasant on board right now. It really feels like a long distance service. Spacious, not rammed, plenty of tables. It really does go to show how nice the service can be given enough stock.
Three carriage 158s were too busy due to the layout, and five carriage 16x were complained about for feeling like an unsuitable train for a 3.5 hour end to end journey, and there aren’t enough Turbos now anyway so that’s been scrapped, but a consistent five carriage 158 worked service would be fantastic. This is why I do hope GWR get the surplus of stock as discussed in another thread (my hope is 175s) so that 158s can be freed to work this service in that way.
17:40 Portsmouth Harbour on Platform 1 - Four carriage 158
17:25 Portsmouth Harbour on Platform 2 - Five carriage 158
(and the 17:04 inbound on Platform 3.)
There are nine carriages leaving for Portsmouth within fifteen minutes of each other and the 17:25 is so very, very pleasant on board right now. It really feels like a long distance service. Spacious, not rammed, plenty of tables. It really does go to show how nice the service can be given enough stock.
Three carriage 158s were too busy due to the layout, and five carriage 16x were complained about for feeling like an unsuitable train for a 3.5 hour end to end journey, and there aren’t enough Turbos now anyway so that’s been scrapped, but a consistent five carriage 158 worked service would be fantastic. This is why I do hope GWR get the surplus of stock as discussed in another thread (my hope is 175s) so that 158s can be freed to work this service in that way.