Welcome to the forum.
You are part of the GA spin machine? Yes?[
The Ipswich-Peterborough service was suspended from early doors today and all trains shown as cancelled. A move I actually welcomed as I know that there is not enough stock available operationally to run the full rural service and it therefore gave some certainty to other services across the routes.
I have just noted that the final round trip on the Ipswich-Peterborough has been re-instated at the expense of more cancellations of other services that had been expected to run earlier in the day. I know exactly why this late deviation has been made and it isn't because miraculously more stock has been repaired.
I am very happy with the new trains, they are gamechangers but to talk about more carriages rather than more trains is just spin if you need to get to work/school etc and no train turns up.
I wish GA all the luck in the world but it isn't really luck that is needed is it?
I'm merely an interested observer who takes a keen interest in the railways - I have never been lucky enough to have any involvement.
The Ipswich to Peterborough service was cancelled because of the fact that there are a number of trains which are unfortunately unavailable due to unfortunate circumstances, which include vandalism, poor weather, trains hitting objects or animals and other circumstances which are outside the control of the operator. If none of these issues had occured then Peterborough services to/from Ipswich would have run today. So this is your root cause, not the phased transfer of trains which was drawn up by people with far more experience than me or you.
In relation to the Ipswich to Peterborough round trip, perhaps you could give the engineers and the technical staff at Crown Point some credit where it is due? They have been working around the clock to get the service back and therefore it starts back much earlier than predicted thanks to their heroic efforts. A bit of gratitude wouldn't go amiss. In relation to the other cancellations, these are not related and to put 2+2 together and come up with 5 is typical of people on this forum who think they know everything but know nothing.
Already I am seeing schoolchildren and commuters being delighted with the new trains, who are now able to travel in comfort, space and style which they were never able to do before. The students at West Suffolk College are understandably delighted with their new trains on the Ipswich to Cambridge line as they have a seat where they didn't before and now are able to arrive fresh for their classes without the stresses of a sardine packed train like they used to.
More and more people travel in comfort, style and with personal space every week, this is something that is to be celebrated and if you ask everyone on the FLIRTS if they prefer things now to how they were before, then I think you'll find that it will be a landslide victory over the new trains versus the old ones, so your point doesn't hold water.