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Although you have just pointed out in another thread how much more efficient GWR is by not having intercity and local trains separated.

Why reformed just for masts?

In terms of the driver; Different pay, different terms and conditions, different rostering.

Why? This is a step backwards. Currently as staff travel basically everyone has the equivalent of a blue status pass, ie free travel in your region. Going back to safeguarded benefits would see that replaced by a number of free days travel per year and having to either date a box or buy a priv...

Excellent, good to hear some progress.

Route clearance is not down to SWR but actually Network Rail. 2014 is 10 years ago, just because there were cleared then doesn’t mean the gauge of the network hasn’t changed, the whole Windsor side has been resignalled since with new trackside equipment. Network Rail no longer so so clearance...

Neither has the route clearance. 100mph 458s have different yaw dampers which change the kinetic envelope of the train slightly which is part of the reason they are a new subclass.

I don’t think we’ll ever see that minimum service levels happen.

Yes they do have a beneficial point - they can move people from A to B which fresh air can’t do. Agree they need replacing which is why Northern has a tender out but there’s no benefit sending 150s for scrap until the new trains have entered traffic. 1713739195 The 225 replacement is simply...

It doesn’t really, most TOCs won’t fall out with their leasing companies as they have other stock on lease. Also don’t forget assuming all the units go to the same place there’s a lot of driver and depot staff training so only a handful of units are needed to kick start for around the first 6...

Of course though the issue can be forced, usually what happens is at the end of the lease if they aren’t return in the specified condition a charge is levied by the ROSCO, what has happened here is TfW have asked the ROSCO for more time and currently as there is no new taker for the 175s this...

The content of the diagrams is changing but remains as the limit of 3 diagrams Monday to Saturday.

Neither of which are huge flows.

There’s not a huge amount of connections that can only be reached at Basingstoke. Andover is one of the few. Salisbury can be reached by changing at Southampton, Exeter by changing at Reading and Farnborough by also changing at Reading.

The ROSCO can specify when the rest of the 175s will be available as they aren’t on an open ended lease to TfW. The Lease date has an end.

As you have already posted elsewhere GWR have started this process for procuring additional stock.

Yes but lots of laws were 30 years ago! BR would have had to move with the times.

Nothing to do with privitisation but EU law. The railways being effectively public sector fall under the Public Utilities Procurement which is far more onerous than for private companies. BR would in today’s world be forced to follow the same EU law. This is why TER contracts are now tendered...

Yes a fear of loosing money so they decide to run a bodged operation by providing unheated trains running in temperatures of 5/6c outside. Nowhere on the website does it say the trains are unheated and you need to bring warm clothes so I stand by my comment it’s a bodged operation borne out of...

Indeed it’s sounds like a horrendously bodged operation (standard many would claim for WCRC), driven out of panic that LSL have run some trains up there.