Gareth Marston
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30 ?? you'll be lucky.
depends how addicted you are to charter minutes, extended station dwell and whether you view life as rosy through your PPM figs.
As I said I've seen "suburban" 150's keep time on Cdf/Holyhead diagrams 70mph top speed on a service run nominally by 100 mph units! I've changed at Newport to FGW services due to running ahead of schedule and being held.
30 of the 200 mins scheduled for Aberystwyth to Birmingham Intl services are station dwell and charter minutes. 105 min schedules between Aberystwyth and Salop have been turned into 119 ones by ATW. Did you see Rhodri Clarks article on ATW's timekeeping in Modern Rlwys mag a few months back?
Calling pattern could be much simplified which saves many mins unless your paranoid about PPM! PPM conning has had the whistle blown on it!
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I doubt any would be quicker than the North & West route.
Of the N-S routes most traffic would be generated by Bangor-Caernarfon-Pwllheli link. Coming via England would still be quicker.
The opening with the most traffic potential would be restoring the Newport to Pontypool service and maybe the closed southern half of the Heart of Wales.
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