Jorge Da Silva
Established Member
But the three stages of increased capacity are not news, they were announced by DfT in February and discussed in detail in a different thread in this forum:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...at-improvements-would-you-like-to-see.200953/
1. Increased diagramming of existing 170 fleet. As little as one unit per day can provide the number of ”seats per week” mentioned...
2. Increased diagramming of existing HST fleet, which should have started in 2017...
3. Increased capacity for 170 fleet consisting of a few additional centre cars.
Anything else is still completely undecided, AFAICT.
then there are two additional HSTs being brought in taking the total to 17 so in a way the plan is
- Increased diagramming of existing 170 fleet from May 2020
- Increased diagramming of existing HST fleet from December 2020 enabling lengthening of other services
- Two Additional HSTs will be used on CrossCountry from December 2020 enabling lengthening of other services
- Increased capacity for 170 fleet by extending 2-car units to 3-cars
- From 2022, additional 221's from Avanti OR 222's from EMR will be transferred to CrossCountry