The 175 pulled back a 24 minute late start at Cardiff, to be on time at Holyhead.
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The 175 pulled back a 24 minute late start at Cardiff, to be on time at Holyhead.
The Mk4 schedule must be very slack.
Realtime Trains | 1W93 1125 Cardiff Central to Holyhead | 17/01/2023
Real-time train running information for 1W93 1125 departure from Cardiff Central to Holyhead on 17/01/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
Surely most of the cancellations on Holyhead-Cardiff that you refer to were more often than not down to insufficient crew being fully trained up rather than train faults, an issue which has now been addressed.
It doesn't appear addressed. I see the morning northbound every day from my uni building and it's hardly ever the 67 it's booked as.
At the start, as berneyarms says there were issues covering all services with qualified traincrew - and it only took one missing link out of all of the drivers and guards booked to work the set through it's day in service to require the entire diagram to be worked by a DMU instead.
Lately it hasn't been so good. The ex GC sets are a bit further behind when it comes to reliability, but they're the only game in town whilst the original sets get their SDO mods.
It's a mixture of padding and the fact 175s can run at MU & HST speeds between Cardiff and Chester. With the gradients on the line it makes more of a difference going north.The 175 pulled back a 24 minute late start at Cardiff, to be on time at Holyhead.
The Mk4 schedule must be very slack.
Realtime Trains | 1W93 1125 Cardiff Central to Holyhead | 17/01/2023
Real-time train running information for 1W93 1125 departure from Cardiff Central to Holyhead on 17/01/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
I was referring to the issue of sufficient train crew not being trained on Mark 4 sets. That has been addressed.
The allocations are fairly reliably shown on RTT (with DMU substitutions where made).
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Yes, I saw said 153s being sent empty back to Canton.
The 153s did the Holyhead instead.
Now being turned at Wilmslow, arrived 14:16 27 minutes late, will leave as 1V46 at 14:49. Currently in platform 1 at Wilmslow which is a bit annoying, 2 is more usual and better for cross-platform connections onwards. 175 105 according to RTT.
The DVT is 82200
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Correct. Sorry....I mistyped due to the rough riding of the train (I was sitting at the end of the carriage next to the propelling loco's screw coupling!). Post edited. I'm now on the return working of the same set (1W96) as far as Shrewsbury and we departed Cardiff Central 14 down due to the train being delayed on depot at Canton. I'm having a couple of pints in SHR with a friend who's a retired driver there....and then taking 1W65 - which should be 67 014 - back to Manchester for the last (22 57) from Victoria to Hebden Bridge.The DVT is 82200
Only the one set out soldiering on today. Its not great but things will get better I'm sure.
It seems that I was very lucky to ride in two different sets yesterday then!
It seems like there are far less 175s available for service each day than there was. There used to be about 23/24 out of 27 each day in service.
And HD05 is in trouble on 1W57.
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67013 + HD05 terminating at Shrewsbury with bus onwards to Crewe. 1V46 which will most likely be a unit now from Manchester being diverted from Crewe via Chester to Shrewsbury.
Yesterday evening 1W65, on which I was travelling, was held at the signal at Wem (? - difficult to see exactly where in the dark!) for several minutes. However, we would have been on time into Piccadilly had it not been for another signal stop outside Longsight depot....presumably for a late-running train leaving platform 13.