Indeed, I've always loathed those bench seats on the 222sI've not used one yet, but I'm astonished to see someone claiming a 222 with its single-piece seating to be less claustrophobic!
IETs are a far, far better travelling experience than any 22x in my view. Yes, even with the lousy seats, but the Avanti ones will have the same seats as the Pendolino refurb. I'm not sure how a Mk3 is better than an IET as built, and you can't really compare retrofit seats because you could retrofit those to the IET as well.
Not so unusual at the moment, it's a booked working as part of the reduced timetable.
Very bad considering they’re utilising a quarter of Pendolinos at the moment.
It’s yet another service with a diesel train doing a fully electrified route, as if the use on Scotlands wasn’t bad enough.
You don’t need to outline it in bold, I am not quite senile enough to need patronising just yet. I saw your point and appreciate that it’s all they can do. I’m just saying it’s ridiculous what it’s come to.
Yes, but it’s more understandable when you consider how intensely worked the 390s are and that’s the reason they Voyagers that route - not enough 390s. This time, a pair of Voyagers is booked on an electrified route while the electric trains sit around unused. Unfortunately made necessary due to the sugar-show they’ve made of their operations lately.
Is it 70 though, considering 6tph to Manchester and Birmingham combined has become 2tph?
I mean if he has said it’s 70 then I think it’s likely it is 70 I can’t see him just making it up or telling lies. I think your point should instead be why is it that high with such a reduced timetable - to which the likely answer is that as the reduced timetable is a reduced down version of the full timetable (rather than a timetable written for the specific purpose) the diagrams are likely to be less efficient than before. If an arriving set at Euston usually formed a return working say 40 mins later but now the next departure isn’t for 1h10 then it’s gotta wait I suppose
I meant to say “not using”. Sorry.
It is quite optimistic to assume the staffing issue would be resolved before the arrival of the Hitachi sets.
Just get yourself on a refurbished Pendo, and you'll find out pdq.I've not used one yet, but I'm astonished to see someone claiming a 222 with its single-piece seating to be less claustrophobic!
Neither is out yet. 119 is currently in - and 121 is still unrefurbished.
I'm reminded that when Virgin removed Blackpool from their map (around 2000), the HSTs that worked the service had an unusual round trip to Manchester instead.
I know, was just wondering whether anybody knew if the plan was to keep their liveries.
You know that's nonsense.
This is a bugbear of mine. Onboard WiFi in many other countries works perfectly well without the seeming need to blacklist anything that uses more bandwidth than Teletext. By all means have a system which imposes limits if the network gets busy enough to be an issue, but if there are only a few WiFi users in the coach, would it really cause that much harm to let them stream from Spotify?
