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Yeah, more week long strikes but different roles every day. Ensuring no service can run all week, but relevant roles only actually strike for a single day.

I think the Trenitalia logos are going, just boarded 357 009 and they’ve gone. Watched another unit going the other way and that also had them removed.

As others have said, he doesn't have anywhere near the numbers needed for a constitutional amendment to allow him to serve beyond 2028. It needs 2/3's majority in congress as well as being passed by 38 out of 50 states.

As he can’t stand again he doesn’t need to care about poll or approval ratings when his policies tank their economy. Although it will be interesting to see how it plays out with all the ‘all I know is that gas & groceries were cheaper under trump’ people.

As others have said, the fax machines will have to go when analogue phone line switch off happens anyway.

Perhaps first on the chopping list will be all the road projects supposedly paid for by 'cancelled HS2 funding'

It’s definitely used on railways elsewhere. The Brightline service from Orlando to Miami uses it for their onboard WiFi. Plenty of YouTube videos showing people getting some impressive speeds. I suspect problems in the UK would potentially be cost & space for the equipment.

There’s definitely been a legal challenge, I think. Although no doubt the government is still trying behind-the-scenes to row back even further & scupper phase 1.

My bad! Sorry I did mean capacity is similar.

I suspect it’s more likely to be driver training, as length wise a 5 carriage 720 is similar to an 8 carriage 357.

I'm assuming because of the industrial action. Think the same thing happened during the last overtime ban.

Just had a thought on the limited PM use of 720's in the new timetable. It could be related to the ongoing Basildon platform problem, part of platform 2 has been demolished because of ground problems. As a result 12 & 10 carriage services can't stop there. When this first happened they put a...

Exactly! Why only have two PM 720 services. Unless they don't have enough drivers trained yet to run anything but a token handful?

Any particular reason why there's only two services in the PM peak? Must admit I thought they'd mostly replace 12 carriage 357 services.

Could these be driver training runs?

fingers crossed this means an extra in the AM as well.

I do remember someone else on this forum(sorry I can't remember who/when) saying that a return to 4tph Fenchurch-Shoeburyness off peak was partially dependant on these units. I assume because the 357's are becoming more maintenance heavy.

A quick rough count shows 8 12 carriage services in the AM peak. So I suppose to free to the maximum number of 357's you'd run all 6 720 pairs on those services.

Thats understandable, I meant when we'll start to see them more in peak rather than just four services. Unless the plan is keep use of them minimal until the December timetable change?

Any idea when we'll start to see more services run by the 720's rather than just two in each peak?