jones_bangor
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Does that refer only to First or is standard also very quiet in the mornings, esspecially north of Shrewsbury? If it does also apply to standard, perhaps several LHCS sets should just replace franchise workings (Manchester - Swansea/Carmarthen and Manchester - Llandudno trains), with two coming off franchise workings towards the end of the day to operate open-access 16:15-16:30ish express departures from both Cardiff/Swansea and Holyhead. In the morning, if the loadings south of Shrewsbury on WAG1 at the moment are worthwhile and you can get a set into Wrexham General's bay platforms (the old WSMR depot) overnight it could run a morning express from there to Cardiff/Swansea, instead of current WAG 1 from Holyhead.
Hopefully the LHCS can take over enough workings to allow all the busiest remaining 2-car 175 services to be upped to 3-car and improved service frequencies elsewhere using the 2-car 175s freed up or 158s displaced by those 175s.
I think it was referring to First Class.