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TfW: No trains (158s) between Shrewsbury and Birmingham/Aberystwyth No Mark IVs between Manchester and Cardiff No trains between Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog -- The same for tomorrow (13th) too.

Same. The cynic in me says they're waiting for the previous batch of applicants to finish the process before they know how many vacancies they still have. 1763059918 Just got my rejection email.

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Was up from Wednesday to Monday - missed the previous one by hours, so got this one in - sadly not heard anything yet, which isn't a good sign...!

Has anyone heard anything from the job adverts that closed almost 2 weeks ago?

I know on some TOCs devices it shows when/where the ticket was scanned, and how many times.

I think it depends on the scenario. If there's a safety risk/risk to passengers of moving the train with said people on board, I'd be quite happy to delay the train, especially if at a manned station.

You could have bought the ticket, you just couldn't have bought the advance ticket.

Unfortunately the aircon, if working, is set to only be 3-5 degrees cooler than outside as far as I'm aware.

Wales has just done it with TfW.

Something I've heard in passing, is apparently the current 230s are simply the prototypes; literally a beta (no jokes please..!). Similarly, I'm not surprised that besides certain issues (heat mainly?) the only real flaw with their running is the new technology, not the 40+ year old engineering...

Completely agree.

Travelled on my first 230 yesterday - whilst I quite like the interior, and think there's been more consideration given than the 197s, the bulk of the time lost seemed to be around Buckley (still no provision for the crawling pace it must do there) and from Shotton to Bidston - it seemed to lose...

Sorry to hijack, but the toilets on the 197s keep failing. What legislation/aspect of the franchise agreement covers accessible toilets (I vaguely remember them not being required, but also that on shorter journeys it's definitely allowed?)?

I don't know if 006 is the one that's been cannibalised? My main concern with the 230s is that whilst the theory/interiors are sound, especially compared to 150s, is the amount of money that's been thrown at the project - tens of millions is what I've heard (including training etc). It just...