fgwrich
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Coming in 2019. It was meant to be 2018. But it’s late, like GWR’s services.
As for removing the message, they can’t be bothered apologising for the shambles. Which reminds me: anyone seen “Hapless Hopwood”, the missing in action MD?
Funny enough I saw him and another one of management at one of their stations last month. Despite a HST arriving on time and taking them to London faster, they waited for the delayed 5 car IET turning up just behind.
I've also heard that Hopwood has rather picked up a new trait for disappearing from view of staff faster than one of these IETs seem to be as of late.
Something not mentioned over the past week on here was that of the appalling service the West Country suffered over last weekend, with the as usual excuses trotted out by GWR. Which in my opinion makes the releasing of another 5 153s rather crazy, when your still banking on an already troubled fleet cascade based around the, ahem, troubled introduction of the IETs. Yes I'm well aware that other TOCs may well have already signed the lease of them but it leaves even less slack in an already tight GWR fleet. And does Northern require those extra 153s just yet with more 170s on the way from ScotRail?