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Have they started refitting the 360s yet? In the past week or so, there seems to be a lot of services only formed of 4 carriages. Also how long will it take to refit them?

That is excellent news. Many thanks for looking into this.

Thanks for the reply. Up until December last year, this train was an 8 car train. I used to catch the earlier 0643 train which is 12 car but the local bus timetables changed and aligned towards catching the 0652. For a little while I had to endure the 8 car train and they changed it to 12 cars...

I am trying to find out if there are any changes to the planned formations of Thameslink trains going through Luton to London in the mornings. I catch the 0652 and it used to be 8 carriages, which was very uncomfortably packed at times, and it was changed to 12 carriages in the December...

Is there a date when the 360s will become 12 car trains? Not sure if its the result of the daylight hours shifting and flexi-workers changing their hours but the 1647 St Pancras to Corby seems to be getting more busier.

A couple of changes I've noticed on the Midland Mainline. 9R85 (0633 Bedford to Three Bridges TL) has turned up with 12 cars instead of 8 in the past few days. Not sure if this is one of the changes or a temporary thing but it was most needed for this particular service. 9R44 (1636 St Pancras...

A side question - will the 360 refit include upgrading the air conditioning system? At the moment its hit and miss. On a hot day, I have made the decision to go home on a Thameslink Class 700 knowing it has climate control and works better than what is on the 360. Also, will the WiFi be...

That's a shame. Have they said why this is and when the restriction will be removed?

If you had identical circumstances over two days but with different signallers, could one decide to give 9R44 priority and on another day the other signaller gives 1Y45 priority in this example? I know the chances of identical circumstances are extremely remote. Also, I definitely notice that...

I imagine as AI evolves, there could be a time when an AI system could be doing all this and far quicker than a human can. However I can't imagine it would ever reach the UK and by the time it does, railway lines as we know them may already be obsolete. 1750960514 Someone said ARS was rolled...

I thought it was automated now? (I remember someone mentioning something called automatic route setting about a year or so ago) and that this ARS system had the intelligence of a washing machine rather than some AI system? Does control alternate between West Hampstead, Derby and Three Bridges...

Thanks for this excellent response. Tonight was definitely longer than Friday and when we left St Albans, I did see a train in the siding. I've been looking at the OpenTrainTimes map this evening and starting to get the hang of things as best as one can do without formal training. I watched St...

A couple of times, I thought I'd try 9R44 (the 1636 TL from St Pancras) I tried last Friday out of curiosity and tonight (Wednesday) when 1Y45 (1647 EMR Connect from St Pancras) was short formed to 4 cars. Both times 9R44 used platform 2 at St Albans and both times, the train stopped outside...

Sometimes they struggle to run 8 cars. I've seen days where a lot of services are reduced to 4 cars.

The journey home Friday evening was interesting on the 1647 EMR. I was tracking the delayed TL 1636 and thought "oh no, not again," and when we left St Pancras, I only then noticed the 1621 TL was very delayed and in front of the 1636. I saw it waiting at the junction just before the West...

The Thameslink was delayed a few minutes but where it clashes with the EMR is if, instead of crossing over to the slow line at Radlett, they keep it on the fast line so it stops at St Albans platform 4. This normally happens if the St Albans stopper is delayed but last night I couldn't find any...

Can't see this happening for the simple reason that St Albans is part of the route and they have a bigger and much louder voice. Unless the EMR services add St Albans to their calling pattern and then there would be issue with overcrowding. Also can't imagine Harpenden would be too pleased to...

Thanks for this post and also looking at what happened today. Today was my first day of going to work since Arriva decided to change all the buses around Luton - routes, numbers and times. Being neurodiverse makes these changes more of a challenge to overcome. In the morning I found myself...

This evening it all seemed to go wrong: The 1636 Thameslink from St Pancras to Bedford was running 9 minutes late. The 1647 East Midlands Connect from St Pancras had its departure delayed a minute.... I assume it was held back to allow the Thameslink to go in front of it and the Thameslink...

Currently the 1647 from STP is timetabled to leave Luton Airport Parkway at 1709 (22 minutes after leaving STP). Both the 1717 and 1747 departures from St Pancras leave Luton Airport Parkway at 1742 and 1812 (an extra 2 minutes, or 24 minutes after leaving STP compared with the 1647). I queried...