Sadly Northern 150 to Manchester just means an extra uncomfortable journey. There is no ability to switch it to a TfW 150 apparently (something which to an outsider who knows how many 150s TfW have seems bizarre)
Because they’re in a common fleet of 150s. Therefore one 150 is the same as another on paper.
As I say, totally bizarre given that the actual units are not the same and most of us can manage whatever we are allocating to ensure a better fit than sending the Northern ones on the Marches.
Well no… because you have a fleet of 150s, and it allocated one of them randomly. Introducing some sort of manual interference just because two have a different interior, potentially less desirable to some, when no seat reservations apply, is going to be unnecessarily awkward.
1W92 also shows as a 197 from tomorrow. The 2 diagrams that did W91 today are 2 separate 2 cars tomorrow one on each of 1W91 and 1W92. In all honesty the 15x is better capacity wise than a single 2 car 197.
I think I saw that one of them was coupled to two other standard 150s on a late night service from Shrewsbury to Cardiff Ctrl the other day, so I don't know if that'd have had any issues. Similarly though on the Valleys, I saw one doing Bargoeds in lieu of a 231 the other day, and so I suppose that'd have been unable to call at Gilfach Fargoed.
Deadlocking entire coaches is an option for that.
Or using the local door behind the drivers cab
Not a lot of use if you've got wheelchairs or bikes.
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
Taxi to Bargoed then next service at cost of tfw then I'd presume
3 car
Fair point. But ~99% of the time it'll work, and you have the fall back of manually locking out coaches for the rest. Or have they specifically banned the Northern sets from those stations? I've only driven one once so don't have much experience.
In my experience, most people prefer boarding trains from platforms rather than climbing up or down from the cess, but each to their own.
They're banned from anything stopping across Angelsey now but couldn't say if there are other restrictions too.
Now corrected.3 car
What's wrong with P4?
Being discussed here:> Not Making Best Use of Platforms At Newport for Changing.
...at stations their on arrival announcement in English was 2 minutes after departing.
This is exactly it. It’s awkward enough for Welsh to come first in Wales, where anyone who speaks Welsh speaks English (but is far from the other way round), but it’s politics and won’t be reversed, infuriatingly. But in England it’s ridiculous.So, this 197 just announced a pile of stations in Welsh including Dwyrain Didsbury, Mancenion Peekadeely, Runcorn Dwyrain, Caer, Yr Ffffflint. etc. Then around Heald Green the English one came on, and didn't announce any stops beyond Helsby
I welcome bilingual PA announcements, make no mistake. But not these, they're diabolical. Can't blame CAF for these, this is solely Transport for Cardiff.
The announcements are a known issue which has been reported by loads of front line staff as too long and clunky and on routes where there's frequent stops the previous one literally gets cut out by the next.So, this 197 just announced a pile of stations in Welsh including Dwyrain Didsbury, Mancenion Peekadeely, Runcorn Dwyrain, Caer, Yr Ffffflint. etc. Then around Heald Green the English one came on, and didn't announce any stops beyond Helsby
I welcome bilingual PA announcements, make no mistake. But not these, they're diabolical. Can't blame CAF for these, this is solely Transport for Cardiff.
The "franchise/concession" is Wales & Borders (it says so on the trains).
Good, it should never be reversed. Politics or not, the erosion of Welsh language and culture threatens the very existence of what makes Wales different to anywhere else. The insecurities of a small minority of Telegraph-reading English folk are of minimal concern.
It should be what benefits the majority first. It’s meant to be a transport service, not a way of preserving a language.
I’m sorry but that’s nonsense. There’s no Welsh speaker over the age of 6/7 in Wales that doesn’t speak English. Everyone gets taught it at primary school. I say this as the minority English-only speaker in my house.
