Recent content by kevin37

Ther is a way ATW can get two units well 3. London midland are due to have ther 172s units this year or next and when they get these units the 150s will be transfered to the FGW. FGW can then give the 3 150s they have of ATW back to them which they can put them on the chelthams spa service...

yea but at moment pax that whant get to london from to aber or aber to london have to change at shrewsbury and if arriva run service through to london they will not have to change which is preferd pax these are not intrested in what ther train is drag by as long as they can sit down and it gets...

atw wales are due to start taken 175s out of service 1 by one to sort out the the electrics on the units to stop them from catching fire 175103 has been done after its spell in chester after catching fire. They will start doing this when they find temp replacments

They aint yet got any contracts or paths to run to london. ATW whant to run the mid and north wales service which terminate at Brimingham new street or Iternational and run them to london m bone. WSM are dreading it because they will lose pax and revenue and they are strugiling as it is cuting...

I like hst fan.lol i work as a fitter for ATW in canton 175s are a pain in the back side ther brakes stick as said in the above post they over heat and catch fire and they have a silly computer are nice to ride on how ever. but if you look at their maintence books first north western had the...

some or most158s are kept cleaned and have minor maintence at machynlleth depot on the cambrain coast as for the rest cardiff canton

Its nothing to do with the london workings. They are fitting new desternation blinds refurbing the fabric inside and a repainting the outside all being done at doncaster

allright i leave it at the cambrain coast line machynlleth depot gets it units in a bit of state but that is the olny let down for them.

not suprised if it has school kids on as for toilets i find that most of companys tend to forget they have toilets. also arriva are rfurbing ther 158s 158821/822/823 being completed

barnmouth is were most the sand is and 75 percent of pax that travel that way are ramblers hickers and walkers thats were the mud comes from.

With all Due respect, VT run along the North Wales coast, their trains are clean inside & out, so what does wind & sand? have to do with a clean train, Im lost with your no roads into Barmouth? Customers expect a clean train up here in the North, inside & out which is alas not the norm...

They have some sort of cleaners at picadily after all some one got to put seat rev out etc

problem that virgin have tho aint really in ther control the fact that network rail made a bit of a mess of the wc main line is why they are so far down also london midland taken a blow on the TOC no thanks to the problems with the signals and over head cables. Not forgeting ther drivers not...

Last time i seen the TOC ATW was 4 and FSR wasent above them then. But c2c was they always seem to be up the top.