Recent content by rwuk

The 450s IIRC display Portsm Hbr and Lon W'loo on the exterior cab display so it's (guesswork on my part) far more likely that someone at SWR has tried to harmonise the PIS data, or has generated the data for the 701s from the wrong source this time rather than this being a problem/fault with...

The software development team will have had nothing to do with it, as was noted by someone else further up the thread. If anyone here is "useless" and "couldn't care less" (perhaps you could try being politer, it's quite unlikely that this was deliberate or through apathy) it's whoever...

I was replying to your post which appeared to say "[How can the disruption be] Frequent, but not regular?". I gave no opinion on when we should admit that things are or are not working. I have no opinion to give on that. The description of the disruption you write (abstracted to: this week in...

Frequent - disruption happened 7 times this week Regular - disruption happened between 13:00 and 13:30 on each occasion (i.e. irregular would be that there's no pattern to when the disruption occurs)

If I've understood things correctly, the map combination PZ+WX implies that Reading to Waterloo is valid as, for the relevant parts: PZ: Basingstoke > Reading > ... > LONDON GROUP WX: Reading > ... > Clapham Junction > LONDON GROUP If the intention of this map combination was to provide...

Having renewed my annual season ticket this year I've opted for the Basingstoke to London Terminals (Any Permitted) ticket, albeit loaded onto an SWR smart card. When looking at the prices with the NRE Season Ticket Calculator I noted that it states that: With this ticket, using National Rail...

I’ve seen a few people tweet SWR regarding this and the response was that (paraphrased) the posters shouldn’t have gone up yet and will be taken down until they should go up. I’m guessing (probably incorrectly) that they were due to go up *after* the timetable change in December so as to not...

It’s taken me far longer than it should’ve done to reply to this thread (thanks, yorkie, for the message!).. I can only blame the somewhat insane workload. Working in Foreign Exchange with ‘you know what’ looming on the horizon has made for a busy time of late. I started my career developing...

So instead of increasing capacity on existing services and also adding additional services, the money would be better spent on painting the outside of the trains?

Probably a vanishingly small proportion. I was delayed many years ago by a freight train going up in smoke at/around Micheldever which meant that the CrossCountry train Inwas on went via Chandlers Ford/Andover. I’d be surprised if the impact that caused comes even remotely close to the train...

Agreed, “none of the passengers now believe a word SWR says” is absolute rubbish. I work in an office that’s near Queenstown Road (aka: the station that feels like it’s most likely to have its service thinned or cancelled if there are problems) and I can’t say I’ve heard a single colleague say...

Clapham Junction to London Waterloo would have 8: 158, 159, 444, 450, 455, 456, 458, 707.

Thanks for taking the time to give me a detailed reply, much appreciated! My season ticket is an annual so will meet the validity criteria at both change-over points. To clarify, my season is purchased on the last day of the previous year (in order to defer the price increase) so will have 6...

I hold a season ticket from Basingstoke to Queenstown Road (via London permitted) that’s standard class. I’m contemplating upgrading to 1st, primarily because I usually change at Clapham Junction in the evening onto the 1657 which is a diesel train that has no air-con in the vestibules which is...

I've just stepped through realtimetrains data and: 29/06 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C42593/2018/06/29 Cancelled (Signal Failure) 28/06 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C42593/2018/06/28 Delayed (2 minutes) 27/06 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C42593/2018/06/27 Delayed (14...