Well I hope all the optimists on here are correct as I for 1 never thought it would get to where its got to!
I find myself choosing the bus over the train now more and more or going with a different opperater where available, even if it means Glasgow on an XC Voyager!
The all shiny an d new in 2018 marketing has even worn thin on my otherwise disinterested Wife who now does a lot of asking when she will get a decent seat on a train that sticks vaguely to time and isnt cold, hot, plagued by faulty doors, toilets etc and which serves a reasonably priced drinkable coffee. My answer, all be it sinical is a long time
After
2018 as I have my doubts that HSTs will arrive on time due to GWML delays and if they do then they woant have been refurbished yet. Nothing wrong with that as the GwR interior is nice but the long suffering Scotrail Express users patients woant last for ever and substituting overcrouded and inappropriate 170s for overcrouded and shortened HSTs whilst the fleat is rushed through the works in a similar fassion to the DMU situation of now woant help the tempers of above pax.
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And now we know the MK4 fleat is largely going spare as of, ur, well, 2018, shouldnt we be asking if 40 year old HSTs are the answer when a bespoke order of Class 68s could be built now for delivery in time for the launch