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More generally, EMR IC & Connect performance does seem to have been better in the last couple of days. Unless anybody has seen Dumbledore visit the depots, I presume this is primarily down to cooler weather. On the plus side, this makes me think that the slightly-less-reduced timetable that EMR...

When I heard there was something decrepit, smashed to pieces and abandoned at St Pancras, I thought immediately of the "Class 222 Declining Reliability" thread.

Industrial action is only on Saturdays on EMR

Experienced similar coming through Proof House area into New Street from the Water Orton Direction. Almost certainly buddleia. From the gardener's perspective there's a lot of new small varieties that stop at 1-2m tall so are not as hellbent on world domination as the traditional buddleia, but...

"Diagrammed" feels like it's doing quite a lot of heavy lifting in the context of EMR over the last days and weeks!

If you're worried about the railway running at a loss, you should see the losses the NHS has been accruing, year after year since 1948. This is an increasingly popular public perception. It's especially true for people I talk to up in here in EMR-land where we have both the current...

Scope creep. The original Grayling 2017 cancellation stopped at Corby and Kettering North Junction. Then it was accepted that they needed to get to Braybrooke GSP somehow. For some reason it was extended to Harborough (the end point was going to be south of Great Bowden Road Bridge). Then it got...

If GWR's most diehard optimists have been reading some of the many and varied "EMR are a total shambles" threads on here, they will have perhaps observed the informed gossip there is about the ex-Avanti 221s. This may lead them to ask, "Wait, so this means that some 180s are available?" <(...

Do you have any thoughts on the disparity between 360 and 700 availability? It might be interesting to compare the penalties for non-availability across the two contracts. EMR appear to have thrown in the towel with regards Connect. It is now a Kettering-Corby shuttle, with ticket validity on...

There isn't much to shorten is there?

As we all know, IC is also a shambles due to lack of trains. If ever there was a time when Connect should not be robbing a train set from the IC operation to stave off collapse, it is now. And the question is of course "how did we end up with the nomadic maintenance regime?". Perhaps another...

No. But if we were doing something like that, it needs to be scoped to look GB wide to look at all the other problematic rolling stock projects that probably constitute about a third of all the messages that have ever been posted here! It's something they should be paying attention to, given...

It does seem that the informal line being taken is to wave in the general direction of Italy, perhaps making an association to 1970s/80s rusty Fiats in the minds of the middle-aged male railway journos! The role of Italian engineering in - say - aerospace tends not to get a mention at this...

There was something (and don't ask me to find it!) on here probably 150 pages ago that suggests Hitachi changed possibly the design but definitely the materials (grade of aluminium) to avoid the 810s having the same problems as other derivatives. Presumably RMT would prefer that brakes failed...

I don't think you'd want to release all the capacity on WCML south with HS2 but then not be able to use it in full by creating a pinchpoint between Bletchley and MKC. So I think 5 or 6-tracking here is more or less inevitable for the reasons people have given. Plus I think it is capacity issues...

I think that statement would also have gone to DfT for approval so I don't think so

At the risk of going off-topic, there are rules for public sector procurement about how prior performance can be assessed https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a807c70ed915d74e33fab47/PPN04-15_Supplier_Past_Performance_.pdf Back on topic. EMR issued a statement yesterday which...

Don't think I've seen this covered in the 810 thread but yesterday EMR have put out a media release relating to 810 introduction and strikes. It feels very unlikely that - given the wider attention to EMR - this release was not written with/authorised by DfT...

Assuming 222 and 810 maintenance are delivered from a common set of facilities and people that work interchangeably on both types at Etches Park, I do not see how EMR could divorce 222 and 810 maintenance (For what it's worth I don't think EMR would be in quite the same mess if Hitachi had built...

Yes, an issue that hasn't been getting so much attention is the availability of the Connect fleet. The forum is probably not that far from needing to start a "stopgap" thread for the 360s! It seems very rare that they are able to get the required 12 units out of bed in the morning (out of 20 -...