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Yeah it was definitely 800012.
I believe that jimm meant the 9 vice 10 trip. That was the unit on the 5 vice 10, I am unsure about the 9 vice 10 unit.
Yeah it was definitely 800012.
I believe that jimm meant the 9 vice 10 trip. That was the unit on the 5 vice 10, I am unsure about the 9 vice 10 unit.
Loads of GWR short forms today (5 car instead of 9 or 10). What's going on?
To be fair, I don’t recall ever getting 1L51 to stop at Severn Tunnel before - at least never on my watch, so you could still have your first!
Do you have a link to this tweet perchance?A GWR Twitter reply:-
This means that we have to take some trains out to expedite our driver training, and means the rest of the fleet has to work more than originally intended and can lead to some shortages.
This is due to late electrification and late delivery of the IETs to GWR meaning the period for training having had to be condensed. The HSTs, which they are replacing, still have to go off lease by their contracted date so the training has to be done.
Can't find the exact one you quoted, but there are a few along the following lines:-Do you have a link to this tweet perchance?
As the electrification was delayed but the trains arrived on schedule this has impacted our training programme, as we can't train drivers on the new trains on section of track that haven't been electrified.
This means that at the moment we have some 5 car IET sets out to help expedite the training, and it also means other IET sets have to work more than we planned which can also lead to shortages.
We are working to train all our drivers as fast as we can, and hiring more drivers and driver training managers to better facilitate it. Unfortunately in the meantime it does mean there will be more 5 cars than we would like. -Andy
Hi Carly and Elizabeth, sorry to hear this has been your experience. It's quite a complicated issue but we planned our driver training on the new trains around the original Network Rail electrification plans, which have since been delayed.
That's a good effort by the twitter teams, normally tweet replies are a lot more simplistic than that from other TOCs...
Sorry if asked before but is there an unreserved carriage on a Class 800/802 and what carriage is the quiet coach (if there is one).
The quiet is coach A on all sets, and also G on 10 car sets.
From what I have worked out, that 5 cars have no unreserved coach, and the second set on 10 cars is unreserved
The quiet is coach A on all sets, and also G on 10 car sets.
From what I have worked out, that 5 cars have no unreserved coach, and the second set on 10 cars is unreserved
The quiet is coach A on all sets, and also G on 10 car sets.
From what I have worked out, that 5 cars have no unreserved coach, and the second set on 10 cars is unreserved
Not at all - you get a lot of reservations for coach J, which is the middle vehicle of the second set. It seems to be one of the most common places to have reservations.
I would still head for G or H though (in the 2nd set) for more unreserved seats.
I'm surprised the quiet coach has been incorporated into new trains, it seems an idea that has had its day and dates back to when mobile phones were new and people would get needlessly huffy over someone having a conversation on a phone (why it was deemed any more annoying than anyone talking to a travelling companion I don't know) and whatnot. I've booked the quiet coach in the past to get work done and it didn't appear appreciably quieter and most other people in there were families who the seat booking software had assigned to the quiet carriage.
Hi there,
Prob completely the wrong place for this but here goes.....
Does anyone know if the new Class 800 trains are working on the PAD - PNZ route yet? Specifically on the 18:03 Friday night down service next week? I've got a reservation in coach H... Being a regular user I've never seen a coach H on the down service... GWR twitter informs me that it'll be 'one of the new trains'.
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Do you have a source for that info?The class 802 is going to be used for the summer london to pembroke dock special service instead of the class 800.
Hi there,
Prob completely the wrong place for this but here goes.....
Does anyone know if the new Class 800 trains are working on the PAD - PNZ route yet? Specifically on the 18:03 Friday night down service next week? I've got a reservation in coach H... Being a regular user I've never seen a coach H on the down service... GWR twitter informs me that it'll be 'one of the new trains'.
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Yes, a gwr driver that I spoke to said that they are planning to maybe use 802s in the Pembroke dock summer service as it has to run on diesel for a long time and the gradients change. And also that some hsts may do a service from cardiff to penzanceDo you have a source for that info?
Yes, a gwr driver that I spoke to said that they are planning to maybe use 802s in the Pembroke dock summer service as it has to run on diesel for a long time and the gradients change. And also that some hsts may do a service from cardiff to penzance