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Funnily enough I noticed this last week at Basingstoke (I think). Looking very rumpled.

As with most things, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. However certain claims being made border on the unbelievable. We all know that the rail unions, quite rightly, will vociferously call out anything that their members are being asked to do that isn't right, yet we hear nothing...

I'd agree with you there. I don't often travel to London, but it's two trips in two weeks for me. This week, aside from the aforementioned aircon issues, in the Londonbound direction from Salisbury on the journey in, we got terminated at Basingstoke, with the onward connection to London full &...

A very unpleasant journey today on a 159 with no functioning aircon. The other unit in the consist was the same. The fact is the ventilation systems are 35 years old, I can't think of any other application where aircon would be expected to soldier on this long. As there is no replacement for...

I suppose it's weather related, there is a tree down on the SWML between Brookwood and Farnborough, taking out the down slow. Down fast is running with a speed restriction. The tree has embedded itself under the juice rail and there is no evidence of anyone on site to remove it, so this could...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdg4y3g0z7o None of the major parties are standing, according to the BBC News channel. So it needs a Martyn Bell type of candidate, or Count Binface it is.

Still two 458/5s to move off to Long Marston as well. That'll free up space for 2x 701/5s

There should be no other candidates fielded except Count Binface. It would be a pretty limited mandate to say you beat a candidate with a bin on his head.

Thanks. I think that answers it. Couldn't get the maps to load properly on a phone. Quite why anyone would do Reading to Waterloo is a mystery. Sounds like a plan.

The journey itself can be done with a super off peak open return (I think). Are there any restrictions on this in the evening peak ex Waterloo or Paddington?

I need to get to Paddington from Salisbury tomorrow off peak, and back the day after, evening peak. I don't fancy sweating it out on the Bakerloo line, the only routes that National Rail is offering me are London Terminals direct assuming onwards via Bakerloo, and via Westbury which won't...

Are we reaching a point with so few diagrams left that some drivers & guards competencies will expire?

Not necessarily the fault of the driver. I was on a "Fail To Call" at Twyford a few years back. It was one of the few HSTs that was scheduled to call, turns out the driver had been given a diagram with a typo.

Going by a quick skim of RTT, all Sheppertons and Kingston rounders are 701, and all but a very small amount of Hampton Courts, Dorking and Chessingtons. The real mixture of 450s and 701s is on the Guildford new line and Woking stoppers. Back in the slammer era, the Guildford via Woking (as was)...

Meanwhile, all the car drivers who dutifully stayed away from Bedford Station as requested by the police to allow for investigation and recovery work, including those who may have been onboard one of the trains, have been rewarded with penalty charge notices by the council. Yes they are being...

I'm fairly certain that all parties who are involved with the railways have various levels of public liability insurance.

Could well end up at the RAIB secure site at Farnborough Airport. Wherever it is, I'm certain that it'll be in the middle of the night with covers on.

What is notable from the images I've seen is that all the side windows on both units remained intact. This will have certainly prevented many more potential injuries from flying glass. Therefore I don't think window or aisle has much in it these days for the safest place to sit.

Seconded. There were at one point over 900 "guests" reading the forum, many of those will have been journalists trawling for info, which is why speculation needed to be kept off the thread.

The cynic in me is grateful that there are no 5 car 701s in service so far, it means that nothing on the suburban side can be short formed.