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Which would be fine but some of the severe overcrowding issues arise in the first place because of maintenance issues resulting in failures so that 2 car sets have to substitute for 3 car sets! This year the booked 4 car set running the main morning commuting Nottingham - Cardiff (arriving BHM...

Have the EMR HST sets with the original layout been replaced by the LNER ones yet? If not has a date been set for this to happen? Also I have noticed that due to engineering work tomorrow there are no trains running south of Leicester - so are there HST sets running between Nottingham and...

But surely this is is the point - HS2 could have been purely an infrastructure project to better connect northern cities. The general assumption seems to be that everyone will choose to use HS2 when in fact that is not proven. I think the majority of people prefer to avoid changing trains if...

Ah but so the story goes one of the intended impacts is to “re-balance” the economy, the implication being reducing reliance on London. If this forecast is correct then in fact the opposite is true

And quite how is HS2 going to benefit Stafford, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Rugby etc. Currently I can get to Euston in 1 hour 15 minutes with London North Western. Presumably this journey time will lengthen when Hs2 is complete. Also, just how are all the people wanting to use HS2 from Tamworth and...

In my opinion a disastrous day. The money could have been far better utilised by spending on a variety of infrastructure projects, particularly in the north, but also Wales and the South West which would benefit a huge number of people. What we have is a project with huge cost to benefit a small...

I cannot agree more

You can however see the cab of one unit sticking out past the containers adjacent to the oil terminal entrance and a cab of another unit past the rail entrance into the yard from a passing train. Both cabs seem fairly intact so I did wonder where they would put another 2 or 3 units

Apologies for confusion - I meant with other operators eg EMR

All the OP’s reasons are valid but I think reason numbers 6 and 2 are the most important. There is a different distribution of passenger usage with a lot less people using rush hour services. I think delays resulting from passengers trying to board busy or overcrowded trains are possibly more...

Thanks - I have just seen the post on the XC HST thread. Let’s hope that door problems don’t make 1V44 continually late.

Thanks - I had just checked that it was running. I had been hoping for it to be needed to make an unlikely short term return. Good job other slam door sets are still available!

Let’s hope they don’t find they have problems with opening and closing the doors on XC02 then like they did with the first two sets to be released (although to be fair the last two seem to have been ok)

It was reply #77 on the Non PRM thread. I was wondering whether they may hold it back for a few weeks in case of problems with any of the other sets given that XC have no extra capacity, and/or Wabtec are not able to start work on it straight away.

I thought I saw a post saying that XC HST set 05 had also been given a derogation but having clicked on the link I cannot find any confirmation of this in any of the letters. Does it have a derogation?

Thanks very much - will try to get a quick trip in then

So they should still be running as slam door on Friday/Saturday of this week?

Thanks everyone for the information over the last few days. I thought that I had missed my chance last Monday on its last outing on 1V44. Are any of the ex LNER sets still slam door and/or are any of the EMR slam door sets still going to be used at the beginning of the new year?

Thanks likely be on it on Monday again then

Considering the hammering the Voyagers get the interiors are generally not in to bad a condition - although I think they did all get a facelift with new seat covers and floor carpet as the original carpets had become very shabby. I think there was a load of the spare material left over from when...