Well, I'm in my first one right now, Cardiff to Paddington. Peak period departure. Short formed 5 instead of 10, so much for reliability. Also this apparently meant they could not put up reservations at all in the remaining coaches, although my coach is here. Will be interesting to see how we get on leaving Swindon with people boarding with reserved seats.I am rather tired of people's opinions being used as factual statements, especially when the 800s are already proving to be more reliable than the HSTs they replace
I saw the preceding HST just leave as I arrived, it looked fine.
Interior is clinical, there a screw fallen out of a screw hole alongside me, looking across it seems several are so. The seats look stained and filthy, far more so than any stock I am used to. Whoever decided on a pale single colour for seats?