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To add to this, they're also stepping back all of the Uckfield Line services at London Bridge, giving them around 75 minutes of turnaround time and ensuring the down services are always on time. And for the least surprising news ever, they've canned the Coastway peak extras from London Bridge...

That's just a matter of opinion, but its pretty much factual that most longitudinal seats don't stop you from sitting in the correct posture, with your back, legs and feet straight. These are things that only affect a select few seats on buses, not all/most of them. There are certainly some...

A lot of people spend 2-3 hours a day, 5 or 6* days a week in train seats - granted its less time than you would be sitting at work, but it very much adds up over time and can contribute to or cause musculoskeletal injuries. In addition, most people will not be sitting at work without moving at...

Longitudinal seating doesn't have the same issues - the actual seats are perfectly fine and don't require lots of people to sit in an awkward position, its just less people can actually sit in the first place. Most buses don't have a duct on the floor stopping you from putting your legs and...

Moving the seats a few centimeters away from the wall is not going to have a big impact on boarding and alighting times. Surely the poor layout of the seats on the 700s actually should've fallen foul of Health and Safety regulations at the first hurdle, given how many people have to sit in...

Its been debunked many times on the forum that this is not an issue.

Absolutely - having had a closer look at the stats, these are some things I've specifically noticed about the numbers at weekends (most of which tallies up with observations from myself and others on the forum): Severe overcrowding on all Coastway services to/from Victoria, with some services...

Would a 3tph service pattern be possible now the whole timetable is built around 2tph/4tph frequencies?

Given they use 2 375/3s on Sheerness services and 4 375/3s on Paddock Wood to Strood services, leaving 2 units (assuming 8/10 are diagrammed), it would potentially make sense for Southeastern to take over the Redhill to Tonbridge services using those two 375/3s, particularly given (I believe)...

I agree, I was just thinking of units that are the same length as the 4-coach 465s currently used on the Bromley North branch - a 376 or 707 would probably be better as you say despite being longer, my point was more that the branch should not have any impact on what is ordered, particularly as...

Couldn't it use a single 375/377?

These services can often leave people behind as early as Wallington depending on the day - the numbers for the 7:45 from Epsom are quite something. The stats make it clear that there are severe capacity issues on London Bridge to Epsom services and West London Line services throughout the week...

Or even better, remove first class entirely!

Could pair up the 30 remaining driving cars to create some 2-coach units for Redhill to Tonbridge, Dorking to Horsham and Barnham to Bognor Regis shuttles :lol:

That's shockingly poor unit availability.

Maybe the London Bridge to East Croydon/Beckenham Junction services would be a good location for the 700s theoretically freed up from GN? There are only 7 diagrams, nearly a perfect fit for the number of 700s freed up from GN, and these diagrams are nearly self-contained (and it wouldn't be...

All GatEx services seem to have been increased to 12 coaches now.

GTR's figures were recently released in an FOI - the percentages on the spreadsheets have been calculated the same way the DfT's figures are calculated, but the raw data is there to calculate the "proper" figures...

I believe the pre-Covid pattern was 2tph Brighton to Ore (or was it Hastings?), 2tph Brighton to Seaford and 2tph Brighton to Lewes shuttles.

Yep, the figures don't really paint an accurate picture of reality when some trains are counted by seated capacity and others by their maximum capacity - notably those Thameslink services don't even make the top 50 busiest GTR services (I posted the list a few posts above) when the maximum...