I arrived in the country on Eurostar during the great Thameslink AC frequency mass shutdown. The first thing we knew was on arrival. Staff were saying not to travel, nothing back to Cambridge running (not true because GA kept running but my phone did not work probably because of the thousands of people at Kings Cross), to make own arrangements and reclaim. They then tried to avoid paying the claim even though I had taken pictures of their announces and so on, and eventually my travel insurance paid me and billed GTR!
Or up to Gloucester and the Maesteg from there!
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Took them about a million years to order the IEPs!
“Mindshare”? Is that some sort of marketing buzzword nonsense?
And yet there's still some who argue that the HSTs are fit for purpose till 2035!
TfW ain't listed as accepting GWR tickets
Indeed, it took the DfT sever years to make up their minds over the designs of it, originally starting out as a pastiche of the HST (and once talk about re-using the MTU Series 4000s from the HST power cars itself) to an underfloor engined, bi-modal improved Voyager type unit.
Surely wibble. The unions are not going to allow GWR to bring in stuff driven by part time drivers with frankly poor route knowledge when plenty of HSTs around that could be used at least as far as Reading driven and crewed by GWR staff.
No. Because there isn't a TFW route but as has been suggested via Gloucester on Maesteg services (by TFW) but the Gloucester to Swindons are IETs now.
I thought they were only cleared / allowed on the books as far as Swindon - Hence my earlier suggestion of using some of the 2+4s up to Swindon and changing there for 387s to Paddington?
I wouldnt know about that route , but the b and h I believe they could run Penzance to Reading, where passengers could change for 387s.
I was thinking more about the Mk4's to be fair. They pretty much went direct from service to the scrappie.
I’ll repeat the question: who pays for such a reserve?
Are there loads of Mk2s in yards? The ones at Burton are owned by Riviera Trains for charter use and it is likely that some are merely held for spares to keep the others running. What other Mk2s are stored?
Only 319s which Porterbrook are rebuilding as 769s and 365s which might have been touted for reuse. 313s, 315s, 317s, 321s and 332s have largely gone to scrap after component recovery and some swapping of PRM units.
This won't be doing anything for the production of further 80x for EMR and Avanti.
And 300 plus people viewing since the start, almost 500 at some point!!!
Some 313s were towed away 36 hours after their last working. At the other end of the scale, some of the 317s have been at Ely for around two years.
