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I think first class will work quite well in this position, with an internal door at each end of the 'compartment' providing an element of privacy and quiet. The alternative is the twenty seats (total) behind the cabs at both ends, but without internal doors to these sections you just get...

Mortgage lenders require proof that, at the time of your application, you can afford the loan repayments from income less outgoings. You are charged interest on the loan to cover the risk, which the lender is taking on, that over the lifetime of the loan you will become unable to repay it, for...

Not sure what you mean, here. Are you saying that first class is now in the same position as the GatEx 387s, ie the 22 seats behind the smoked glass partition door in one driving coach?

It would be extremely rash for any employer/Government to promise employment beyond 2021. It is very likely that we will still need nurses, teachers, soldiers, plumbers and coffee shop assistants in 2021, but none of them have an employer *guarantee* of future employment. I am surprised even...

There was an OBS on the Gatwick Express I caught this evening, doing a good job, which reminded me how much more civilised rail travel is with a visible member of on-train staff. A couple had taken seats in first class with standard tickets: the guy telling the girl there was unlikely to be a...

If sausages and spirits aren't being served in first class, this is a much bigger crisis than the GTR dispute. Twitter should be fun today, with those who 'paid £12.50 for a First Class service, and all I got was tea!!! #Refund'

One of these was installed at Bishopstone earlier this month: our first ticket machine for at least a decade. Unless I missed it, there's no opportunity to buy a ticket starting from another station, which is a useful facility other Southern machines do offer. And yes, the inputs are painfully...

Thanks, that makes sense.

First Class at one end or both, on the GN 387s? I thought they might use the dedicated area behind doors in one driving coach, as per Gatwick Express, but the picture linked above appears to show a yellow cantrail over the ten seats behind the cab, only, as per Thameslink. In my (limited)...

I have no idea whether, or when, tables will be fitted. I was merely rebutting the contention that GTR had not announced the fitting of tables. Because - as demonstrated - they have in fact announced this repeatedly. However, I enjoyed the explanation of how a company official stating 'we...

Yes. For example: 23.09.16 15.12 ‘Tables will be retro-fitted’ 23.09.16 08.29 ‘Tables will be retro-fitted to the trains already built’ 22.09.16 07.36 ‘Tables will be retro-fitted to the units already build’ (sic) 20.09.16 07.32 ‘…we are in the process of arranging seat back...

17.57 London Bridge - Brighton short-formed 1x442 vs 2x442. I assume neither of the spares were available, with (at least) two hours notice.

Page 23 of the consultation document states that the Littlehampton via Hove to London Bridge service - now Southern, but Thameslink from 2018 - will increase from 2 trains to 4 trains, in the a.m peak. I presume these extra services will call at Haywards Heath, as Thameslink stop everything...

Albeit not in glass, isn't this effectively what GWR have done in First Class, since reducing it from 2.5 to 1.5 coaches on the HSTs? On the MK4s, I found the original Standard seats more comfortable than the replacement 'Mallard' items.

The tables show a significant increase in *Thameslink* services from Haywards Heath, but of course these don't go to Victoria and, anyway, the consultation specifically states the ex-GatEx calls will be picked up by Southern services. I do hope the consultation is not using 'Southern' as...

The consultation states 'other Southern services' will call instead, but this is intriguing as - during the peaks - all existing Southern services call anyway. The only new *Southern* services in 2018 appear to be a couple of additional Littlehampton-Victoria trains, which wouldn't compensate...

I'm sure GTR/DFT would like to get rid of the through Seaford services in the interests of 'simplification', which has become a strategic imperative outside the TfL area. Hence, the withdrawal of the through trains is mooted first in the consultation, with the reduction in the peak...

Ah, okay. Well, in the evening there's only one Victoria-Seaford service, but there are other oddities such as the Brighton-Newhaven Harbour 'parliamentary' service, which reverses ECS at Newhaven Marine. There's also a morning train to Brighton which starts at Newhaven, in addition to the...

They'll stop at Falmer, so not quite non-stop. No, you need three units and crews to operate a half-hourly service taking 37 minutes. Splitting the service at Eastbourne seems to involve a relatively tight connection which, with current levels of service reliability, will be broken...

Disappointed that Seaford-Lewes is dropping from 3tph to 2tph in the peaks, and that the through Victoria services are under threat. There is talk of an acceptable 5-9 minute connection at Lewes off alternative London trains, but given how often these 'connections' are missed in the pm peak...