Does anyone know what the plan is with the class 313s?
I have a couple of colleagues who use the west coastway services into Brighton and frequently the trains are so packed at times that apparently yesterday a train was sent out early from Brighton for safety reasons, (or so I'm told by my boss who was left on the platform at departure time after asking a member of staff where his train was).
Short of running them in pairs, the only real option for more capacity is to replace them with other, longer units, probably 377s. I had to explain to my boss why they couldn't just add more carriages Shame Southeastern's 508s got into such a state they had to be scrapped - they'd have come in quite handy for enabling services to double up until something newer can be sourced...
...but yeah, anyone know what the plan is for replacing the 313s?
I have a couple of colleagues who use the west coastway services into Brighton and frequently the trains are so packed at times that apparently yesterday a train was sent out early from Brighton for safety reasons, (or so I'm told by my boss who was left on the platform at departure time after asking a member of staff where his train was).
Short of running them in pairs, the only real option for more capacity is to replace them with other, longer units, probably 377s. I had to explain to my boss why they couldn't just add more carriages Shame Southeastern's 508s got into such a state they had to be scrapped - they'd have come in quite handy for enabling services to double up until something newer can be sourced...
...but yeah, anyone know what the plan is for replacing the 313s?