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Yes, I think you might be right there!

True.....but as PHILIPE says ''it has a long distance to run thus increasing the opportunity of delays for a variety of reasons.''....don't know whether running it as 2 separate Bristol services might help????

I think if they only ran the services between Bristol and Brighton that would help improve the reliability a lot and be less prone to issues. Remember you have the double reversal included (Bristol and Gloucester)... I don't really see much point in the extension beyond Bristol anyway.....how...

And when the train is full to the brim....the air doesn't circulate that well at all and it is really stuffy! Also if your on a stopping service the train doesn't pick up much speed anyway.....on the approaches to Lewes it is at a crawl. I do feel sorry for some of the Southern guards who have...

Indeed...these can get absolutely packed solid between Brighton and Hastings and 2 cars just isn't enough.....

There's also an old siding at Warnham.....

313's :lol:....boarding a Southern 313 at Lewes the other day it was like an oven!

I asked a similar question a few months back and it got merged with another thread..... But anyway.....this will probably have the answers you are looking for.... http://railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77463

I am aware of that :wink: ....but it's the most recent thing I could find about the Brighton stats. What it does show though is that the unreliability of this service has been ongoing for a while now...... --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I would very much agree that it could be...

The afternoon FGW run from Great Malvern to Brighton failed to turn up at Brighton again today, so the afternoon Bristol service was also cancelled! What can be done to make the service more reliable???? http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/info/11062_Brighton_worse_stats.html

Agreed......anyone who gives those out would probably have the royal security knocking on their front door!

Yes, they were well used by goods trains at one time. They are rarely used now though, I havn't seen anything in there for a long time....

I don't think much can be done to revive the hobby to be honest, each generation is brought up differently! Times change....

I have heard Southern will be running out of space to stable their trains as they have the new batch of 377's to deal with.....so I strongly suspect it will be used for that! :wink:

Just had a look at those so thanks for the information and links.....

I included that 'Express' news report not as an ignorant reply to yours by the way but in some sort of defence, and what sparked me commenting on this thread in the first place.....something I read a couple of months ago! I should have probably made that more clear..... I'm not saying what you...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/398952/Crime-is-going-up-say-police

Hmmm.....As we have no information about the 50,000 households they used for the survey (or 75% of that as you say responded) then it is difficult to reach a final conclusion about the true figures for unreported crime here in UK. I'm not suggesting what you are saying is wrong, i'd just like to...

But then again.....not everyone who lives in the UK would respond to the survey.... ;)

Yes thanks for the clarification.... :)