Hi,
Todays 1F16, 11.23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central is being operated by a 2 carriage class 150, Only saw it from my window so unable to identify he unit, currently just arrived at Bristol Temple Meads 18L
07:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 10:54
Will be formed of 4 coaches instead of 5 between Cardiff Central and Bristol Temple Meads.
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Will be formed of 4 coaches instead of 3 between Bristol Temple Meads and Westbury.
Will be formed of 2 coaches instead of 3 between Westbury and Portsmouth Harbour.
This is due to an earlier train fault.
Indeed, it is sadly not uncommon at all. I saw at least 2 Portsmouth diagrams on Saturday being run with 150s, one by a 150/9 and another by a 150/2. Unfortunate that the 150 with the least capacity (150219) ended up on a Portsmouth run today! Does anyone know why it was delayed? 150s don't usually lose too much time on the route *uncomfortable flashbacks when 150002 ended up on the route and was delayed every journey )
Would this eventually end up working the 22.21 departure from Bath Spa to Westbury as the announcements said it was formed of 2 coaches, and then a three car 158 arrived. If so its fault was probably rectified and then was sent to end up in the right diagram for tomorrow morning.
As for the 2221 Bath to Westbury, this is the 158 diagram on the Cardiff to Taunton route (0841 Weston-s-Mare to Cardiff, 1100 Cardiff to Taunton, 1307 Taunton to Cardiff, 1600 Cardiff to Taunton, 1808 Taunton to Cardiff and 2100 Cardiff to Westbury).
Thanks for this!
Does anyone know if the 158 (158959) is still out of service following the fatality at Keynsham? Or is it running as a 2 car unit? I haven't seen it since.
The 07:30 Cardiff to Portsmouth passes my flat in Fareham around 10:30 will look out for that, thanks for the gen, if the 153 is still on it at Fareham and not detatched at Bristol or Westbury then I'm sure a 153 over here is quite rare. Happy to be corrected on that point though.
No worries.
Haven't seen 158959 for ages, so I would guess yes it is out of service, hence why there are a lot of 150s on the Cardiff to Portsmouth services.
In fact, 0730 Cardiff to Portsmouth this morning is 153377+150925!
For some reason I screenshotted this when I noticed it on Journeycheck in the morning (was checking for issues from Southall)
153s aren't cleared past Southampton so you won't see it unfortunately; 153377 was detached at Temple Meads so it'll just be 150925 you'll see!
Is there a possibility that the 150/1s could be refurbished to the same interior as the 150/2s? I don't like the layout of the 150/1s and think they are only suitable on Avonmouth and Weston services.
The seating in the FGW 150/1s can not be altered from 3+2 to 2+2 because when they came to FGW in 2011 the DFT Bean Counters said that xxx number of additional seats are being provided meaning that this was set in stone. Fortunately losing them in the future as electrification cascades come through.
158959 has been out until last week when it suffered severe damage after being involved in a fatality and appears to be a Works job. What has been spread about is that the good end car of 959 is going to be attached to 158766 later this week (fresh off C4) and form a 3 Car Set numbered 158962.
Believe complete position is (From WNXX Forum)
Current sets
158749 - 52778+57749 - new set formed from 52778 previously in 158959 plus 57749 previously in 158960
158763 - 52763+57763 - no change
158769 - 52769+57769 - new set previously part of 158960
158798 - 52798+58715+57798 - no change
158950 - 57751+52761+57761 - no change
158951 - 52751+52764+57764 - no change
158952 - 57745+52762+57762 - no change
158953 - 52745+52750+57750 - no change
158954 - 57747+52760+57760 - no change
158955 - 52747+52765+57765 - no change
158956 - 52748+52768+57768 - no change
158957 - 57748+52771+57771 - no change
158958 - 57746+52776+57776 - not been able to check but assume no change
158961 - 52749+52767+57767 - no change
158962 - 52746+52766+57766 - new set formed from 158766 plus 52746 previously in 158959
Disbanded sets
158766 - disbanded 52766+57766 to 158962
158959 - disbanded 52746 to 158962, 52778 to 158749, 57778 for repairs
158960 - disbanded 57749 to 158749, 52769+57769 to 158769