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Looks to be same again today, and nothing showing on Journeycheck, although showing as cancelled on National Rail JP.

The update from Modern Railways states that it's Penzance-Exeter runs and each unit is expected to take around a week to complete this...

It's also a tiny, tiny cost compared with the overall cost of running the railways. People who have absolutely no idea of how much it costs to run buses have the same obsession with the cost of repainting buses.

Oops, I meant Class 745! We know the Adessia will be low floor. The Stadlers fit the definition of low floor because they allow level boarding. Just like low floor buses are those with step-free access even though there's usually a large step up towards the rear to accommodate the engine etc...

It's not as if we don't already have low floor trains though, eg, Classes 345, 777 and LU S Stock. Plus the Alstom Adessia (successor to Aventra) and the various Stadler designs are only offered in low floor format.

The sandwiches were always so hit and miss as not to be relied upon anyway. Hopwood clearly doesn't believe in catering on trains. His one visible contribution in his brief tenure at SWR was to abolish the last of the catering.

Lack of a national rolling stock strategy and dithering and stalling by the DfT and Treasury.

And of course removing trains from the timetable rather than showing them as cancelled means Delay Repay can't be claimed.

I would expect a 700/701-type metro interior.

What's the civil service got to with anything?

From the current issue of Modern Railways (printed edition): There's no other details about the trains in the article.

I'm trying to bring a bit of additional perspective to this thread from my own personal experience. That's all.

Exactly my thoughts as well.

Yes, it is. Here's the full text from the email sent to stakeholders by GWR outlining the issues and what's being done to sort it all out:

Just to add a bit of balance to things... I use London's buses regularly. I'd say around 1 in 10 of my trips has a wheelchair on board. In the last 3-4 years I've only seen one wheelchair user unable to board - and that was because there was already a wheelchair on board. What I have seen...

An email has been sent to stakeholders updating on the latest Class 175 position. There are timetable reductions from 7th September while the issues with the 175s are sorted out before they enter / re-enter service. Email text below. I don't have a source link but on this occasion this has been...

Nothing on journey planners yet that I can see. Seems to be all the fashion for operators to tell us they're "temporarily removing services from the timetable" but not actually provide us with the most useful information, ie which services.

You've answered your point in your first sentence!

As GWR are temporarily reducing their Penzance - Plymouth/Exeter timetable from 7 September to account for the ongoing 175 issues that won't be needed.

Stadler needs to be in there somewhere given that it's one of the shortlisted bidders. :)