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@Giugiaro Thanks!

Thanks @Giugiaro again. Before I saw your reply I already had phoned CP from GB (I dont want to see the cost for 30 mins of calling internationally!) My wife is pregnant so understandably stressed by the situation. CP's comments on the phone match with yours, so hopefully this means we can relax...

I think we will have to see regarding stopping for a longer break in Pocinho. I hear there is now a strike the next day and we dont want to get stranded. Consulte aqui os serviços mínimos para os feriados de 10, 13, 16, 24 e 28 de junho So I assume on these dates there is now a full strike? On...

Thanks @Giugiaro for your ongoing help.

Thanks for the responses and detailed info! So according to the link and info kindly given here the 07.25/08.25 and return from Porto *should* be a safe bet for loco hauled. Maybe if we go for the 07.25 it might be less busy. As we are going earlier in the day we wont be too fussed what the...

OK thanks, so on the plus side I am looking at IR's along the Douro (so thats good), but the work to rule then might affect such IR services then hmm? I guess you would hope if the train runs out it will then at least come back. Not like theres the risk of getting stuck at Pocinho?

By chance me and the wife are in Porto next week and have only just learned of the superb train along the scenic Douro valley, especially so given the work done on locos and carriages. Great work! Its tempted us in to a trip, if it was a unit I wont have bothered. Are all workings now loco...

OK, but does anyone know when the last non-refurbs will go? Surely they can hang on to them for much longer given the declining condition, its not doing much to help Eurostars reputation or complaints inbox I am sure.

Having travelled to S.France last week (3008 leading) on a refurbished set I have say I am even more saddened that many of these have been scrapped. I think the refurb is very good, my other half thought it was a new train! I find the refurb 373's a far better train than the 374's, why is the...