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Thank you @Big Jumby 74 - very detailed response as always. Yes, I appreciate the challenges; the 701s do not affect me at all given that my (infrequent) travels on SWR are usually on 450s or 444s
Good luck to all the staff involved who have to deal with the planning and the transition and...
I hadn't realised that the manufacturing side of this company went bust many years ago. Is this company now dead or has another company taken over? I was interested to see what the current range was but there doesn't seem to be anything new
What will nationalisation mean to the average fare-paying passenger? Will anything change in the short term? I need to purchase some advance tickets from SWR and don't want them to be invalid at the time of use if SWR as a company "ceases to exist"
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