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Possibly. The only reason I book through LNER is the discount, otherwise I'll generally use the forum site or SWR if uploading to smart card. The incentive is definitely working for me, but I'm surprised it's profitable for LNER

Could be the free cards get the less generous offer and any card with an annual fee gets 10%?

I got the 10% with Amex until 8th August too. Monzo is 8% for me, possibly because I never use it (because Amex has always been a better offer).

You started this thread in 2017, look at everything that has happened since! Some obscure issue will be found to delay things by another 5 years. Summer 2030 will still have 455's in daily service with the promise of new trains soon

Not as far as I'm aware. I'm also not really comparing like with like as rural South West France is always likely to have fewer EV's than inside the M25. The infrastructure compared to rural England though is light years ahead.

I'm in the South of France this week, my rental is a Polestar 2. It is remarkable how much more advanced (and cheaper) their charging infrastructure is. I paid €0.55/ kWh at a motorway service station - it would be not far off double that in the UK. And yet, I don't feel there are anywhere near...

Why? There are about half the number of trains over it than there were 5 years ago

You'd think so but it wouldn't be beyond SWR to shift the 701's elsewhere and do a press event telling everyone they are continuing the rollout on new routes. Ant idea which diagram? Hoping it's my morning train to work.

Hopefully displacing a couple of 450 diagrams rather than 701's..

Who is going to be on the hook for the majority of the cost of disruption today? Heathrow Airport Limited or the individual airlines?

Perhaps it's all part of a government master plan to buy rolling stock on the cheap. 1) Leak a few stories about private companies profiteering at taxpayers expense 2) Drag out the 701 fiasco until the lease expires (next year?). Unlikely to be any real progress by then anyway given the gross...

Failing upwards then. If it were me I'd leave it off my CV and say I'd been in prison rather than being associated with this fiasco.

Probably gearing up for another PR launch to give management a day out the office.

How much of the 701 debacle would you say is SWR's fault as opposed to DfT fault? And do you think anything will change quickly once SWR are no longer involved to paint it as a quick win?

Agreed, much more suitable than the 455's. It seems unlikely though as SWR haven't even bothered testing them to Reading yet?

If the leaks are as bad as claimed here then why have the trains been accepted by Rock Rail/ SWR?

Cancel one of the other diagrams. Then claim the rollout is progressing as the 701's are on a new route..

Not my route (hence my continued moaning on this thread) but I understood it was closed for an hour after the match. A shame there are no quick wins here... Reintroducing the Hounslow rounders even as 8 coaches would solve a lot of issues, but presumably SWR don't have the rolling stock or...

Thank you, I had missed that when catching up on the thread. So there's been no training at all in 2025 :frown:

455's cannot be run (as more than 4 coaches) on Weybridge via Hounslow services without cancelling stops... that isn't a solution. I think passengers would be ok with 455's returning on all day Hounslow rounder services but that is clearly not going to happen. Any update on 701 training...