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Networkers arent 35 - 40 yet, neither are the turbos. Its the 15x which needs priority rather than handing out contracts for sake of keeping factories open

Why have so many ex york examples transferred over to the potteries? Are the constellation buses so poorly unreliable they need to borrow extras?

How many have been for work at edge hill so far following refurb at widnes?

making up work specifically to keep a factory open is just delaying the inevitable and also removes the point of having tendering and competition

Hopefully we will then finally get to see what the interior looks like

Shame as with all telegraph articles, its locked behind a paywall.

Its all well and good saying that however.. Its only when you look at it from an things such age perspective that you see what actually needs replacing and what can wait. 150s are the fleet closest to end of life so if any new trains are needed right now its Northerns. Whereas 16x and 465/466s...

Interiors across the 387 fleet are the same or at least almost the same surely except for the colour pallet used by each operator? With the 379s we can only hope for a fleet whose interior finally matches the GN brand and isn't just southern in all but name

Exactly and new train orders were always going to run low eventually. It’s just the way it is. The more trains we replace now. The longer the wait will be for new work in the future. Its why full fleet replacements are problematic and are not necessarily always a good thing.

Can’t find anywhere which answers this but has there been any updates to whether the 172/1s have had interior refurbishment?

Yeah I have also seen that. Its the ex 460 coaches that used to be the 5th carriage in the /4 sets

If the remaining BREL stock is replaced too soon before it reaches end of life its just gonna bring the order gap forward even quicker 465s also have at least 8-9 years left in theory so they are getting close to end of life but replacement needs to be done at the right time if manufacturing...

The press release is a bit messy and could’ve actually just simply listed everything being added/changed in the refurbishment for each of the 3 fleets. Would’ve been a lot clearer and easier to read

Only taken them, how many years? 3

Turquoise?

Roger and Anne are both used on the GWR and now SWR network and isn't Elinor Hamilton voice for train announcements also used by GWR on their trains too?

You can really tell SWR is operated by first when they copying all the GWR announcements to SWR

The main issue with Anne on SWR stations is the announcements have been pieced together with different voice recordings of anne compared to other TOCs who stick to using the same recordings and usually just swap out the name of the TOC when changes happen

Why are the wrapped units being re painted? Surely its more cost effective to leave them in the wrapped livery?

Does kinda make sense sending the 730s to walsall to wolverhampton next as the displaced 350s could then be sent south to cover the ex 319 diagrams and those 730s could then be moved up to the west midlands?