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The good bit of BASRE signalling update at Temple Meads are the staff information screens which are now on each platform island. Now when your train is late, can gaze in bewildered merriment as routes are set in direct contradiction to what the CIS says is going to happen, with CIS then bouncing...

Thanks Clarence Yard & JN114, all interesting stuff, and at least some partial comfort/reassurance if not complete... Think you're saying that the second 5 car set is locked out because of crew shortages, not because of the short platforms? Given that the signals are a long way off the...

Again, that's not actually relevant. Currently, 8 car HSTs are partially replaced with 2x5 car IETs (busiest ones put back to HSTs), but with 1 x 5 car set locked out of use south of B.T.Meads, and towed along behind for 'ballast' through short platforms. So yes the whole train is actually...

No it isn't, the original point was about providing 3 and a half standard class cars in place of full 6 and a half standard car trains, in other words removing 60m of useable train length (accounting for your very important 3m longer cars). GWR can not afford to trade capacity for 'more...

The new 800 trains are fine, are vastly superior to Voyagers (not that that's difficult), whilst before commenting on build quality... for a proper perspective suggest you should get yourselves back in an HST vestibule for an hour or two... Having lost count of the number of IET rides, and...

...but the end/pantograph cars don't have underfloor engines either... floors are a lot lower, and the seats are strangely more comfortable.

On first ride out of T.Meads on a very busy 17:17 W-S-M 5 car last year, the presumably very new and very keen trolley guy made an announcement asking people not to stand in the vestibules because he couldn't get through with his trolley, quite where else we were supposed to go he didn't say...

What is the plan for the PAD to TAU/WSM services? Note that HSTs have been kept or put back on various of the peak Bristol-Somerset commuter services, which seems sensible given that the single 5 car sets aren't big enough for the demand? Will these get the 9 car sets, or will both 5 car halves...