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If the right deals aren't in place a number of new build EU trains will end up with tariffs placed upon them, think about it we could end up with a network made up of new build UK built trains if we aren't careful, remember how many manufacturers are from the EU & build UK trains in the EU...

It's obviously achievable to open doors on both sides of the train as the Central line proves at Stratford for example, however if as people have said it's DOO it's impossible to do unless that can see monitors on both platforms or there is a GTR platform dispatcher on both platforms, all in all...

Comfort is subjective I agree, however there are many more comfortable seats available on other fleets the 375 Electrostars are amazingly comfortable, the seats on an HST are as well, but admittedly the seats on say a 377 or a 700 are abysmal in comparison to the 395s seats!

Let's put it into perspective, the seats weren't the most padded in the first place, they were pretty hard from the get go, similar to the seats in the IETs, nearly 9 years of bums have compacted the foam and now they are bloody hard, add in the wear they've got on them a re-cover re-foam is a...

I write this fearfully because if the interiors hold up as badly as this in under 10 years in service there's no hope for the 800/801/802s about to or already entered into service! This is the state of one of the ironing boards that Hitachi installed on a 395 but this is pretty the standard...

The seats are comfortable, yes...if you seek out the priority seats with the little bit extra legroom, if you're 6ft+ the standard airplane layout seats don't provide the seat pitch and you end up with your knees around your armpits, very much a case of squeezing an extra row of seats when...

Chartham and Wye in Kent (Ashford to Ramsgate line) have 6tph off peak passing over them 2tph off peak are high speed Javelins! Roughly 9tph in Peak with 4tph high speed Javelins!

I think the Brighton Mainline closure announcements on TLR are brilliant and Geoff should be the new voice of the railway

Weirdly Poole (I know not a huge city/town) is hilarious, the train line cuts through the centre of the high st with a level crossing, then dumps passengers another 800m along the line well out from the centre

It still amazes me that many of the EMUs with connecting corridors run in the south manage 100mph with the brick like front ends and distinct lack of aerodynamics when they were built! I've heard of drivers needing to wrap up to keep warm and stuff rags around the door to stop the cab turning...

Sorry to slightly hijack this post, but South Eastern did try running high speed services from Ashford to St Pancras on Boxing day to transport people to the Oxford St sales, but 2017 they didn't offer it, are they doing it again, is it dependant on Eurostar services running because of...

Lol It amuses me the pessimism of this group at times

It was more a case that there hasn't been more time added to the process after the comments about the bids needing reassessing and the dates changing

So it seems South Eastern have announced the end of their franchise on Twitter this evening when someone started slating their actions tonight when they decided to skip stations out of LBG in North Kent....oops

It seems sensible with the current fleet of 395s and new franchisee would be daft not to go back to Hitachi and order some metroed out 385s without the curved windscreen because of the expertise of Hitachi already within the workforce, and depot already set up for it! Choosing another...

I'm aware of the length difference but with longer carriages won't a longer wheelbase/boggie base make them articulate at the gap much more, equally they must also make a bit more noise and wear out parts a bit more than a shorter carriage round tighter bends than a 20m carriage

What's interesting is the class 395 SE HS trains are Hitachi AT300s so are the 800/01/02s but the 395s don't have such large gaps, and some aerodynamics to reduce the gap! Interestingly though, have the 800/801/802s been designed to handle tighter twists and turns further up the ECML? Obviously...

The St Pancras toilets under the SE Platforms are heavily abused, never cleaned properly due to not being able to be partially closed to do the job properly, the cubicles are regularly frequented by the local homeless as an overnight shelter whilst the rest of the toilet then stinks from the...

I could easily be wrong but I've stood at Grantham and platforms 1 & 2 have fast HSTs running through (no dedicated fast lines) I don't know if that's 125mph fast but they have warning messages, announcements and yellow hatching on narrow parts of the platforms! I'm sure someone with either...