But very few 2 x5 on anything other than padd to Penzance from December other than a few odd services. 9 cars on the pad to pz makes alot more sense than carrying 30 odd people on a mid day train to Hereford or Cheltenham or the like, yet they are getting 9 cars. I have no issue with 9 cars in the peak on these services , but during the day they will be dead, whilst services to the west country will potentially be formed of 5 cars the minute there is a shortage.
And btw Jimm, I am totally with you in agreeing that Cotswold services should NOT be missing out Reading at peak times before you have a go!
And I am totally not with you when it comes to making out that a nine-car train carrying air around through Cornwall is somehow different from a nine-car train carrying air around anywhere else, whatever the time of day that is happening.
I told you a very long time ago that the first of the off-peak London-Hereford and back trains would become a five-car set, and I am now bored of trying to tell you why the second one that leaves Hereford mid-afternoon needs a nine-car, due to the load it carries from Oxford back into Paddington, when it is a peak train in every sense, whether you like it or not.
I also told you a long time ago that 70 per cent of the entire Cotswold Line timetable will be five-car operated (with clear and obvious reasons for all the nine-car duties, such as the case noted above) and the only nine-car and 2x5s that will be seen on the Cheltenham route are in direction of the main passenger flows in the weekday peaks or at the busiest times on Saturday and Sunday.
You have said several times that you have understood these points, then repeat your mistaken claims yet again whenever you decide to tell us how hard done by Cornwall is, complete with its at least half-hourly all-day main line frequency...
And if an IET fails at Hereford or Worcester overnight or a five-car is substituted on the late evening workings from London that stable at those places overnight, then there will be a short-form or no service from those places as well - nor does Swansea seem to have any spares hanging about if they have an issue early morning. So much, yet again, for the unique persecution of the West Country.