Yes there did USED to be turbos on the Cotswold tho They have been virtually eliminated. And the 27th of December used to be rammed and that was about it. Certainly not the 3rd of January.
And for the last time, my last however many posts have stated I am looking for 3 or 4 trains a day to Penzance to be 9 cars, not every train. The 9.15 and 10.15 off Penzance could be 9 cars as long rock holds one 9 car a night and and 1015 is formed off a set from Laira.
Not too many got off at Plymouth , and the fact customers are choosing to travel on the fast London trains over the slower trains that only go to Plymouth is hardly surprising seeing as most passengers are not doing local trips judging by all the luggage!!!
Yes. Turbos have now been eliminated from everything but the weekday halts trains - but they were an overcrowded fact of life from the 1990s on Oxford and Cotswold Line services, at times other than Christmas as well. And yet no one demanded that squadrons of HSTs or nine-car IETs should be provided instead, because that would have been an absurd over-provision of capacity much of the time - as you would no doubt have told us...
I think you (and Master29) need to look at which days Christmas and New Year fell on in 2019/20 when trying to explain travel patterns in recent days. As they were in the middle of the week this time round, large parts of Britain seem to have shut down for a fortnight and many people will not return to work until Monday, along with the schools reopening. This year Christmas Day and New Year's Day in 2021 will be on Fridays, so people will probably take less time off and the return to work will be concentrated into fewer days.
And for the last time - though I doubt it will be, as you seem unable to grasp this basic point - when we take the assorted trains that you have demanded should be a nine-car IET west of Plymouth, it does not add up to '3 or 4 trains', because what goes down to Penzance has to come back again.
In recent days you have told us:
in the morning departures from Penzance after 9 until 11ish also need more than 5 coaches
I cannot accept certain services , namely the 1004 1204 and 1404 going into Cornwall as a 5 car.
For the 09.15 from Penzance to be a nine-car, that requires something coming from Paddington the previous afternoon to be a nine-car.
A nine-car for the 10.15 departure could come from Plymouth the same morning, but is there actually a need for a 640-seat train from Plymouth to Penzance at 7.15am as part of a half-hourly frequency? You kept telling us nine-car IETs should not be allowed to be used in this way elsewhere, such as the off-peak trip to Hereford and back (an HST for many years previously) that formed a key afternoon peak working back into London from Oxford (use of the nine-car set ended last month, but the 15.18 from Hereford to London is one of the services where I suspect use of a five-car IET will be an issue in the long run).
If the 10.04 from London is a nine-car, then the 16.15 back is also a nine-car.
If the 12.04 is a nine-car, then the 17.45 back is also a nine-car.
The 14.04 could provide the set for the 09.15 the following day, though on Friday evenings it appears that the set off the 14.04 goes back to Plymouth at 20.15 (a service just crying out for 640 seats...), if the trolley and compulsory bike reservations symbols on the timetable are anything to by - so that would mean one of the later services from London to Penzance on a Friday afternoon would need a nine-car diagrammed as well, in order for the Saturday 09.15 to be nine-car.
So that's at least four trains from Penzance out of 10 on weekdays and four out of nine on Saturdays.
And at least four from London out of nine trains on weekdays (and five out of 10 on Fridays) and four out of eight on Saturdays. Plus a Plymouth-Penzance working to get a nine-car set to Penzance in the morning.
So your few trains a day already amounts to the best part of half the London-Penzance services from Monday to Saturday. And should you want nine-car trains back to London on a Sunday afternoon as well, then those would have to come from somewhere.
How many is 'not too many'? 10, 50, 100, 150? Did anyone transfer to the other set waiting in the platform at Plymouth or did they all remain wedged in the set that had come from Penzance?
What 'slower' trains to Plymouth? Most of the HST and 158 services take a whole five more minutes to traverse Cornwall than the IETs.