Peter Mugridge
Veteran Member
STP = Short Term Planning!
Forgot to explain it, but it’s there for the foreseeable future, until the aforementioned unit availability issue is resolved.
Ah... yes.... that STP... I'd forgotten about that.
STP = Short Term Planning!
Forgot to explain it, but it’s there for the foreseeable future, until the aforementioned unit availability issue is resolved.
The 455s last ran to Horsham in May 2018 but yes, trains without toilets were common on that line. Before the 455s it was EPBs.455s work Victoria to Horsham which is 90 minutes, and have done for longer than I've been alive, I've personally never had a problem with that I don't think that Reading to Waterloo for a journey of that length of time is too bad.
This may be a bit of a dumb question, but the current Google Maps image of Reading station (it's post-rebuilding) clearly shows a 3-car train in SWT livery occupying the southernmost SWT Reading platform. Anyone know what that could be? Have class 158/9s recently worked Reading-Brighton? The image is clearly processed, maybe averaged in some way to get the 3d effect (you can see fragments of images of other trains in the platform) but I can't think of any 3-car stock that fits.
This may be a bit of a dumb question, but the current Google Maps image of Reading station (it's post-rebuilding) clearly shows a 3-car train in SWT livery occupying the southernmost SWT Reading platform. Anyone know what that could be? Have class 158/9s recently worked Reading-Brighton? The image is clearly processed, maybe averaged in some way to get the 3d effect (you can see fragments of images of other trains in the platform) but I can't think of any 3-car stock that fits.
This may be a bit of a dumb question, but the current Google Maps image of Reading station (it's post-rebuilding) clearly shows a 3-car train in SWT livery occupying the southernmost SWT Reading platform. Anyone know what that could be? Have class 158/9s recently worked Reading-Brighton? The image is clearly processed, maybe averaged in some way to get the 3d effect (you can see fragments of images of other trains in the platform) but I can't think of any 3-car stock that fits.
SWR Class 158s and 159s have booked work to Reading
Nice find! I don't have access to Google Earth right now but I now see that there's no SW orange/red swoosh on the east end of the train, only on the west end. Fits perfectly that it'd be some AI insanity.The first image is a 10-car SWR train and the second image is a 3-car GWR turbo. The way that is has been merged makes it look like the SWR colours are on the Turbo!
Although I'd assume they use the west end bays for those workings not the east end where the train in question is?
I mean, a few words to the right people and a diesel could drop on the Readings, theoreticallySome trains are routed into the main station to keep route knowledge up as well as the bays
Reading - Brighton hasn’t run in over ten years, but would have used the other end of the station anyway....Have class 158/9s recently worked Reading-Brighton?