LucaZone said:
What confuses me is that the franchise was announced as 'First Great Western Express' ' First Great Western Link' and 'First Great Western Local'?
Seeing as FGW Link already Existed and FGW was the HST & 180 services, why have they not kept the designations since the franchise started on April 1st?
First Great Western Link is now First Great Western
First Great Western is now First Great Western High Speed Service (wheres Express gone!)
Exactly...we discussed this in another thread
*looks*
Ah ha!
http://forums.railuk.org/showthread.php?t=6144 ....there!!
IMO, 'First Great Western high speed' just doesnt sound right!
'fGW Express' would sound alot better.
I think they should have kept the 'Link' branding for all ex-Thames Trains services, and even if they decided not to use the 'Local' name for Wessx services, they should have expanded the 'Link' name to cover ex_Wessex services. Makes more sense.
It would mean the 'fasts' (HSTs and 180s) are announced as 'Express', and the 'stoppers' (Wessex and fGWL) are announced as 'Link'.
Maybe they will change it once they are settled in. If not, i may send a letter to GW Head Office enquiring about the change and giving my opinion on it.