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Have they started refitting the 360s yet? In the past week or so, there seems to be a lot of services only formed of 4 carriages. Also how long will it take to refit them?

That is excellent news. Many thanks for looking into this.

Thanks for the reply. Up until December last year, this train was an 8 car train. I used to catch the earlier 0643 train which is 12 car but the local bus timetables changed and aligned towards catching the 0652. For a little while I had to endure the 8 car train and they changed it to 12 cars...

I am trying to find out if there are any changes to the planned formations of Thameslink trains going through Luton to London in the mornings. I catch the 0652 and it used to be 8 carriages, which was very uncomfortably packed at times, and it was changed to 12 carriages in the December...

Is there a date when the 360s will become 12 car trains? Not sure if its the result of the daylight hours shifting and flexi-workers changing their hours but the 1647 St Pancras to Corby seems to be getting more busier.

A couple of changes I've noticed on the Midland Mainline. 9R85 (0633 Bedford to Three Bridges TL) has turned up with 12 cars instead of 8 in the past few days. Not sure if this is one of the changes or a temporary thing but it was most needed for this particular service. 9R44 (1636 St Pancras...

A side question - will the 360 refit include upgrading the air conditioning system? At the moment its hit and miss. On a hot day, I have made the decision to go home on a Thameslink Class 700 knowing it has climate control and works better than what is on the 360. Also, will the WiFi be...

That's a shame. Have they said why this is and when the restriction will be removed?

If you had identical circumstances over two days but with different signallers, could one decide to give 9R44 priority and on another day the other signaller gives 1Y45 priority in this example? I know the chances of identical circumstances are extremely remote. Also, I definitely notice that...

I imagine as AI evolves, there could be a time when an AI system could be doing all this and far quicker than a human can. However I can't imagine it would ever reach the UK and by the time it does, railway lines as we know them may already be obsolete. 1750960514 Someone said ARS was rolled...

I thought it was automated now? (I remember someone mentioning something called automatic route setting about a year or so ago) and that this ARS system had the intelligence of a washing machine rather than some AI system? Does control alternate between West Hampstead, Derby and Three Bridges...

Thanks for this excellent response. Tonight was definitely longer than Friday and when we left St Albans, I did see a train in the siding. I've been looking at the OpenTrainTimes map this evening and starting to get the hang of things as best as one can do without formal training. I watched St...

A couple of times, I thought I'd try 9R44 (the 1636 TL from St Pancras) I tried last Friday out of curiosity and tonight (Wednesday) when 1Y45 (1647 EMR Connect from St Pancras) was short formed to 4 cars. Both times 9R44 used platform 2 at St Albans and both times, the train stopped outside...

Sometimes they struggle to run 8 cars. I've seen days where a lot of services are reduced to 4 cars.

The journey home Friday evening was interesting on the 1647 EMR. I was tracking the delayed TL 1636 and thought "oh no, not again," and when we left St Pancras, I only then noticed the 1621 TL was very delayed and in front of the 1636. I saw it waiting at the junction just before the West...