There are plenty of things to complain about with TPE at the moment, but the quality of the 185 refurb isn't one of them. They've done an excellent job, plus in my experience the reliability of the new wifi is second to none.
They (the previous incarnation of FTPE) only got it right on the station announcements at Huddersfield after people complained!
You would have thought that it would have been carried on over to this franchise.... No of course not, too much common sense in that, despite it essentially being allot of the same people from the previous franchise (on the ground at least, I am aware of the wholesale change they had in their management)
Most likely has simply not been updated to reflect this.
But why hasn't it been updated? Either they haven't realised the gates have gone or they just don't care. Either way it gives the impression that the railway doesn't know what it's doing.
Probably because, as in many businesses, responsibility for such things is not specifically one person's job. My guess would be that a project team was responsible for creating the messages during the initial introduction of the units. And that other project teams are/were responsible for major changes (e.g. a change of franchise name, etc).
An accepted pronunciation is "Slath-waite" with the first syllable like (Sylvia) Plath.
Had it yesterday on a LDS-MAN. Looked very tired and ready for the refurbishment.
People keep going on about moving the toilet and 1st class, but doing so would be complicated and would mean the refurbishment of each unit would take weeks or months, rather than days. All so that there isn't the occasional (and in my experience it is only occasional) standard-class passenger walking through. Not worth the trouble, the existing set-up is the best compromise.
