HamworthyGoods
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2 coaches are ok if the mainline was open and XC were running a full timetable (not one train every 2 hours with some extras).
Passengers from Basingstoke have learnt that it is far quicker to go Basingstoke - Reading - Paddington then onto LU then it is using the bus to Woking/Guildford for a train to London, it's OK during the day on Sundays when SWR run an hourly service from Reading to give extra options, but those stop after the 17:12 departure. Can you blame then for wanting to avoid the lottery of replacement buses (i.e. will it be a nice coach with legroom or will it be a double decker service bus) when there is reported issues with RRB supply?
But this goes back the issue isn’t the capacity on the local stopping services but the fact the SWR service to Reading stops at 17.12.