Recent content by Goldfish62

Indeed. The proposition seems to be to shorten and lengthen trains based on the loadings as they progress along a route! 1791906881 Would this also apply to the short platforms on the Chertsey line and Hounslow loop? Which inner-suburban services are you talking about given that as far as I'm...

Thanks for the correction.

That's on the same diagram as 2C03.

There was some sort of incident in Cornwall early this morning. London services were heavily delayed or part-cancelled as well.

Presumably the TfW 158s that are definitely maybe moving to GWR are part of the capacity plan.

5 coach 221s are on some of these services.

The usual excuses/reasons for delays with everything seem to be Covid, invasion of Ukraine and the cyberattack. Oh, and now we have the Iran war. :)

The ride quality is typical Aventra, plus track quality seems to be suffering in a quite a few locations after the hot weather and so far little rain.

Yes, very - according to a friend who's worked on them from Day 1. The 701s, while not exactly high flyers, are far surpassing the reliability of the 345s at this stage since service entry. Source - Modern Railways monthly reliability stats. 1791560791 Very insightful - thanks for posting this!

Bagshot and Frimley are both 4-coach platforms and Camberley is 10-coach so having an 8 coach train or 10 coach train makes no difference. At least some of these services used to be 10-458/5. Obviously you would never run any of these through services to/from Waterloo as 4 coaches. People...

That's exactiy the rate that the 458/0s even at the peak of their reliability never bettered. Maximum of 24/30 units rostered daily.

Catering existed on Waterloo to Exeter and Weymouth services until around 2021 when it was removed "due to Covid" and never reappeared. At the time the Acting MD was Mark Hopwood, who provides the worst catering of any long distance operator at his "home" TOC, GWR.

A lot, certainly on Reading services. I remember an article in Modern Railways a few years ago, the general thrust being that slack timetabling encourages lax performance and it all becomes a vicious circle resulting in trains becoming slower and slower. But that's a whole topic in itself.

Makes perfect sense.

Unfortunately the DfT made clear some months ago that the TOC liveries are all going.