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TfW withdrawals (170/175 all gone, now just class 15x to go)

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360xup said:
Has anyone seen them used on Manchester to Cardiff runs on Sundays recently? I am heading down on the late May bank hol and concerned ! I have endured them on this run before, it wasnt pleasant for over 3hrs !! Appreciate it being a bank hol am as likely to end up on a bus !!
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They haven't reached Manchester in months upon months, thank god.
 
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360xup said:
Has anyone seen them used on Manchester to Cardiff runs on Sundays recently? I am heading down on the late May bank hol and concerned ! I have endured them on this run before, it wasnt pleasant for over 3hrs !! Appreciate it being a bank hol am as likely to end up on a bus !!
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There are no Sprinters booked for the Manchesters on a Sunday now. I think they are all 197s apart from the 2 Mk4 diagrams.
 
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TfW have told me that the 150s are staying put on Rhymney - Barry - Bridgend services until the 756s are in service on Rhymney services, which is dependent on the 398s entering full passenger service on the TAM lines.

So the 150s have at least 18 months left on Rhymney - Bridgend. And today almost every Caerphilly to Barry/Bridgend service is a 150.

To quote a "normal" who I spoke to last week "Why do I see all the new trains going to Barry Island, but whenever I get on a train to Llantwit it's an old diesel train?"
 
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Bikeman78 said:
I thought that going flat out for up to 900 miles a day would finish them off, but it didn't. They just got on with it. The MTIN at the end of 2023 was about the same as the previous year. The improved reliability also applies to the Coryton line. Now that the 153s are gone, the daily routine of turning several trains short seems to have eased off.
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TfW have done various things recently to improve performance on the Coryton Line.

Decreased dwell times on a 150 vs a 153 might be helping, but I really don't think it's down to 150s being more reliable than 153s.

Instead of trains being turned short of Coryton due to "congestion" instead there are frequent outright cancellations (or replacements with a single 153) due a "a failure on this train".

They generally seem to go out of service at Central so presumably either they have failures they can run with but TfW would rather they didn't, or they're being pinched to replace something else.
 
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