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£1.4 million to £1.5 million seems very low to me, what Bombardier order was this? To give some other prices (all adjusted to 2015 values): - Class 800 at £2.8 million per carriage - Class 801 at £2.4 million per carriage - Class 185 at £2.25 million per carriage - Class 350 at £2...

This weekend has also been the first weekend of the Bath Christmas market, and trains here are always abnormally busy for this. It's not just that route and the small trains used on it that suffer; my ex girlfriend and my parents both experienced HSTs with standing room only from Reading to...

Gonna be interesting to see what the winners plan to do! I also wonder if the result will see "Bring back Northern, everything is forgiven" comments being made as they were when GTR took over from First Capital Connect :P

I can't really see any use for them on British rails, there aren't really any lines that don't already have more appropriate stock. The French are in a similar situation so regardless of whether they are truly clapped out or not, I don't think there's any use for them. That said, they could be...

How many 37s are actually in full mainline service now then? The number definitely seems to be increasing at the moment. I'm not 100% sure but would they be the largest active class of pre-HST era diesels also?

I can't say much for a modern electric locomotive hauled train against a multiple unit equivalent, but I can provide a bit more insight :) Traction being centralised (locomotive) or distributed affects the acceleration of a train by affecting both how much the driving wheels of the train can...

Many thanks for posting this, that's very useful and interesting!

I'm not surprised at all - while the ban may not be present elsewhere, this attitude is also happening in so many infrastructure engineering industries, both public and private. Much of the electricity supply industry seems to be the same.

Indeed you don't see many of them - it was quite an oddity! You do get quite a contrast through that part of the line though, I'm pretty sure I've seen a single 153 leaving Oldfield Park a couple of times, which is at the opposite end of the spectrum.

I travelled on one of the 150/2 sandwich formations from Southampton to Bath a few months ago, so yeah they are out and about :) I think the best combination I saw was a 6 coach trains made up of a 3 coach 158, a 150/1 and a 153 which I saw a couple of years ago, heading towards Bath when...

The /6s and /7s really are horrible - I try to avoid them! I had to travel on them for 1hr 10 from Victoria to Ockley a number of times in my days commuting and it really wasn't nice! The first class is also very obscure on them, and really only offers people nothing more than a greater...

I think that they have to be, because of EU regulations stating that private companies have to have access to the railways. Also, the freight companies (DRS exempt) will have to remain private unless actually bought out, and all technically run as open access operators at the moment. Don't...

I know that many (all?) hotels request that at least one member of each booking is over 18 - as the sleeper is in many ways a moving hotel, these similarities could be a reason behind this age limit? Just a thought I had :P

Isn't the bank holiday service the same as the standard Sunday service? If so, I believe that trains terminate at Redhill as standard on a Sunday, though happy to be corrected!

I am suggesting that yes, and it's been implied by other people on this thread and outside of this forum that they feel this way, and I agree with them - I get quite motion sick if I can't see out of a window, especially on Pendolini with their tilt. It may not be an issue for you and that's not...

I don't commute any more so I don't use the station too often either, but from what I've seen it seems to get stabled overnight, leave the siding at about 0720 after the 0716 from Horsham has left, reverse just after the Horsham-End points then pass through platform 2. I think it then forms a...

I did have a few similar experiences of this during my days commuting to London from Dorking - three or four times the 0731 from Dorking to Waterloo, which is not scheduled to call at Ewell West, Stoneleigh and Motspur Park, stopped at Ewell West and let passengers on. This may have been due to...

I think that that question is somewhat irrelevant on this thread, as the topic of conversation is about our experiences of comfort on Pendolini when compared to other trains. Of course I would rather that than no seat at all, but if someone has reserved a window seat, expects a window seat and...

I have to admit that the 377s do still divide quite quickly in spite of that, or at least when I see them at Horsham they do so pretty quickly. I doubt much time will be saved by doing it any faster - although this is based on observations only! On a very loosely related side-note about 377s...

I think that Southern beat that - exactly the same as standard in every single way except you get a little hanky saying 'First Class' on the headrest. I made my family laugh once by writing 'First Class' on a napkin and putting it on my headrest :P I agree, I don't find the ride quality any...