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They are in the official timetable for the day, e.g. see this example on RTT https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Q16541/2024-03-14/detailed#allox_id=0 which shows the train category as "Ordinary Passenger".

These days on a typical weekday there are about 22,000 passenger trains in the timetable (24,000 odd pre-Covid). Does anyone know roughly what the equivalent figure would have been at the pre-Breching peak?

Try travelling on a packed 455 out of Waterloo on a scorching 30 degree day in July and then tell me it isn’t necessary. The conditions are borderline dangerous.

Llandudno and Llandudno Junction lie on the same line but are separated by an intermediate station for a different place (Deganwy). What other examples of this are there on the network? Any journey requiring changes/connections does not count

Umm, except it isn’t. The original 1960s signalling needed to be ripped out and replaced with modern signalling when the 2009 tube stock were introduced. The old signalling couldn’t support 32tph 1647713428 A more accurate explanation is that there was basically zero investment in the tube...

Shortly before the 1st lockdown in March 2020, Avanti were running this marketing campaign…

Transport for Britain?

The Chessington branch has a 2tph service throughout the week. But when the line to Epsom is closed the trains are diverted to Chessington and it gets a 4tph service!

The point is that eventually the cost of keeping old stock running approaches the cost of just replacing them with something newer. In the specific case of the 455s, they lack air conditioning, toilets and wide enough doors to obtain satisfactory dwell times (at least in the pre-pandemic...

No

Plus more modern, higher capacity, air conditioning, better acceleration, semi-ATO between Wimbledon and Waterloo

preusmably the emergency funding arrangements

At current levels of usage, you could argue London is over-serves...

It’s amazing the pie-in-the-sky world some of the contributors on here live in. Of course this service was going to be abandoned. The already marginal business case became a financial basket case the moment the lockdown hit. It’s a real shame of course but the only real surprise is that...

Heathrow T5 has two platforms future proofed for a future Southern link

The up platform at Chessington South has never been used, due to the extension of the line being cancelled after WW2. What other examples are there on the network?

The concourse isn’t too bad (though nowhere near as good as King X or St Pancras) but the platforms area at Euston is utterly miserable with the atmosphere of a multi-storey car park. Natural light desperately needed.

Has a 701 run under its own power on SWR metals yet?

could it be a way to replace the 442s?

pretty good time to have to deal with a bunch of strike action