This is typical of the response we get though.
Let’s look at this.
‘The units are largely ok’
....2 of them seem to be, 1 of them sits down before it makes it into passenger service. Every time.
‘The four car has had a few issues’
It fails every time they use it. It’s not fit for passenger service.
‘Not related’
But less things to go wrong as there’s only 4 cars yet still fails every time it’s put into service.
‘Limited periods’
Every time it goes into service.
‘Being worked on’
That will take some convincing. They don’t mend the trains.
‘They don’t hide anything’
They told people to get on a bus to Doncaster yesterday as the train was running. The bus left after it was known that the train was cancelled.
They know the 0727 is cancelled the day after the 1912 is cancelled but darent announce it incase passengers find it useful and change their plans to get to funerals and meetings etc.
‘Back to full strength shortly’
But they don’t mend the trains. And if these faults are all unrelated which there is no evidence either way then it’s clear that they’re going to carry on. Customers are being treated like fools.
‘Barring any other failures’
Which there will be, because they don’t mend the trains.
Edit : Apologies if this post is out of place it failed to send earlier
- ‘The units are largely ok’
....2 of them seem to be, 1 of them sits down before it makes it into passenger service. Every time.
Wrong - it made it into passenger service on Saturday, and again today. Nothing to brag about though, obviously.
- ‘The four car has had a few issues’
It fails every time they use it. It’s not fit for passenger service.
Wrong - see above. As you are not in possession of the facts around its recent failures, or the chain of events connected to the repairs, you are not in a position to state that "It’s not fit for passenger service" as a generalisation.
- ‘Not related’
But less things to go wrong as there’s only 4 cars yet still fails every time it’s put into service.
Wrong - there may be one fewer vehicles, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the same faults won't occur but not affecting as many vehicles. It still has two driving cabs, for example.
- ‘They don’t hide anything’ was in the context of hiding things from the ORR as regards the ability to run a service
- ‘Barring any other failures’
Which there will be, because they don’t mend the trains.
180s are mechanical objects, just like any other train, and will break occasionally (or more often in the case of this particular type). Stating that "they don't mend the trains" is clearly nonsense, or none of them would work. I'm not bothered if you don't believe that the recent run of faults with that unit are unrelated, but I'm not going to dwell on it any longer as we're just going round in circles.