Yeah I’m not sure what’s holding up 197 acceptance but I wish it would hurry up
Not it’s really far from ideal. I’ve been a big advocate for what TFW are doing with the 197’s and MK4’s but days like today do go totally the opposite.
I would be very interested to know (and probably never will) if the MK4’s had been running today, what the units used to cover them would have been doing instead.
A very small win that there’s no 150’s, which surprised me too.
Assuming no stops were omitted in that late running service then that’s fantastic.
It’s another one of those things that’s hard to explain to people who say they wish they old stock would stay. Which there are plenty of on here and very few of in real life.
It does make me wonder if they will re-do the timetables to account for the much better SRT’s once the the full 197 fleet is operational, which would take away some of the ability to make up lost time like this.