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Here here! Last year the 1624 Basingstoke-Portsmouth Harbour was diagrammed as a 6 car DMU, formed of 2x 159 units. It has been cut back to a busy 1x159 now, but was half empty as a 2x159. The sight of this wasteful use of such highly sought after rolling stock would probably make a lot of...

Have you considered the steps that would be necesary to do this? You would need to: Clear the units for the route (I'm pretty sure they arent cleared for the Brighton line) Get staff driving the units trained on the route as they won't have route knowledge (or provide a secondman with...

Use of the 460s to release 450s for other duties would also provide a solution to the craziness that is SWT's operation of diesel units on fully-electrified routes due to not having enough 450s to go round. This would allow using 450s instead of 158s and 159s on the Lymington branch and...

I travelled on a Pacer Swindon-Trowbridge on the only occasion I've actually travelled on that line, though that was a few years ago now (back when here were 4 or 5 daily services). Felt rather silly at Chippenham on a pacer whilst an HST went past in the other direction! Now the services...

My solution last year was to cycle from Brighton to Littlehampton and then train it home from there. By the time I made it to Littlehampton it was quite late in the afternoon and the bike ban had been lifted on that part of the Southern network. But I appreciate that the 55-odd miles from...

Lack of passing loops- a big problem for scheduling on the west coastway line, and as is rightly pointed out, something which gets in the way of running proper "fast" services. Going back a few years, I recall the Worthing loop was primarily used for services terminating at Worthing, but...

Southern have had posters at many of their stations the last few weeks announcing bans or limitations on carriage of bikes on trains today. It is also on their website (link here) and I think I might have heard platform announcements to this effect as well. The BHF also note that bikes on...

As a new forum member and also a regular user of the Pompey-Cardiff service, I simply cant resist replying to this thread, with a slightly more realistic proposal which wouldnt involve use of 180s (hint: put them on Manchester-Glasgow/Edinburgh!) and wouldnt require vast extra resources to...

First post here after spending some time observing- be gentle! Some previous posters note the saga involving 442s being taken off the South West Mainline and put on GatEx / Brighton express services. In an ideal world, it would have been best not to have made these changes, but they have been...