Recent content by Tom m

Anyone considered that they are looking at the much longer term? When the western access to Heathrow eventually gets built, I suspect HEX will be modified to something like Paddington - Heathrow - Reading, poss even further west. I would imagine it is easier to keep the operation ticking over...

Anything to do with this back in december perhaps: https://twitter.com/cmpd_date/status/1060878941697781760?s=09

I traveled on an 800 today and I was surprised to see how many people mistook the locked trolley storage cupboard for a toilet, perhaps a sign is required.

By all accounts the 332s are life expired, as many people have said they are worked very hard 7 days a week. I wonder how the 387s will cope with being worked so intensively over a short route.

The contract for the changes to the 387 trains was announced yesterday: https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/heathrow-express-emu-fleet-contract-awarded.html Looks like the class 332s will soldier on till the end of the year.

The P&O ferry website seems better setup where you have to actually put the number on your priv card into the website to obtain the discount. I am unsure how open to abuse it is but it appear to work quite well on the surface of it.

Why offer the choice of different drinks then if all I am getting is a cup of hot water to make it myself.

I travelled on the southbound highlander yesterday arriving today. Was not overly impressed with the provisions to be honest, text in the morning to say there would be no hot food, no problems as I eat before I got on, the message said breakfast was unaffected. I Was greeted with a wake up to...

Confirmed running this morning, saw a set on a 6:30 ish departure from staines towards Windsor

I noticed that the toilets on the 458 trains don't seem to be locked out as regularly since swr took over

Can anyone tell me why some of the carriages on the 455 have a different profile to the standard mk3 based ones?

This is a new design of train so it seems sensible to me to not put too many "new" things on the train, I much happier seeing proven bits of kit on the train rather than having a completely clean sheet design. I know this is only an information display, but I would like to think that it is...

I noticed Egham is also open.

Platform extensions at Chertsey open this morning. Still appeared to be some work going on but barriers preventing public using full length platforms have been removed

Anyone know if there is a company website setup yet? Had a search of the internet but not found much other than links to the various news articles