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450 and 458 I should imagine as they're the trains with loos that the 701s have replaced. The 458s have always had reliability issues with their toilets and latterly SWT (not SWR) seemed to give up altogether with the toilets, it being common to find all four on a 10 coach 458/5 formation locked...

How do you mean?

I doubt if anyone on the railways is going to be bothered. Waterloo to Reading services were so full passengers were unable to board as far west as Ascot and Bracknell so there's zero chance of any ticket checks.

That's nice for them. Perhaps they were on holiday in Cornwall. More seriously, perhaps as the buses were originally to be delivered to the First Bus as the originally expected operator of the contract there's some latent responsibility for getting them into service. Dartline is the current...

The crumbling edge of quality.

Cornwall Council interior because that's who owns them, but different to the Citaros. It uses the same colour palette as the exterior. Low back seats, surprisingly, and because they're 1st Generation Kites there's no aircon.

From what I understand from inside info is that the current senior management of GAL want to concentrate the business on running its core work, ie TfL contracts, so the rail replacement side despite generally doing a solid job may get run down.

Trying to get the 769s into service makes persevering with the 175s seem a very attractive option indeed.

What's your alternative suggestion to quickly address GWR's rolling stock shortage?

Which isn't that helpful given the numerous times they run in reverse formation despite what the platform indicators show.

Today they're showing on Journeycheck as cancelled. Still nothing on the GWR website about the trains being "removed from the timetable" from next week. I guess GWR want to hide the bad news and pretend the affected services never existed in the first place - seems to be how it works with the...

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Yes, and TfW will soon the franchising authority for all bus services in Wales, not just TrawsCymru.

Exactly the same issues on the 701s. The soaked floors give the impression of the toilets being filthy even when they're not.

That's the same with bus drivers hours. Driving hours are strictly limited by law, but driving to and from work in your time counts for nothing.

There'll be a lot of cancellations on Reading/Windsor services if that's the case. Even assuming all 701s are diagrammed as planned around 40% of Reading/Weybridge services are 450-operated. Are there even enough mainline services that need strengthening still? There's 20 450s to use up!

Maybe it's because Arriva hasn't been owned by DB for over two years now. :-)

Indeed. LNER Azuma livery with a bit of tweaking would form a good basis for a resurrected InterCity brand.

Ah yes. 73001. 1788439609 And on Bustimes.org today it's the turn of 73006.

It's the same with any contract that changes hands and certainly isn't confined to railways or buses.