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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    The 450s IIRC display Portsm Hbr and Lon W'loo on the exterior cab display so it's (guesswork on my part) far more likely that someone at SWR has tried to harmonise the PIS data, or has generated the data for the 701s from the wrong source this time rather than this being a problem/fault with...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    The software development team will have had nothing to do with it, as was noted by someone else further up the thread. If anyone here is "useless" and "couldn't care less" (perhaps you could try being politer, it's quite unlikely that this was deliberate or through apathy) it's whoever...
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    Regular Thameslink disruptions over a week

    I was replying to your post which appeared to say "[How can the disruption be] Frequent, but not regular?". I gave no opinion on when we should admit that things are or are not working. I have no opinion to give on that. The description of the disruption you write (abstracted to: this week in...
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    Regular Thameslink disruptions over a week

    Frequent - disruption happened 7 times this week Regular - disruption happened between 13:00 and 13:30 on each occasion (i.e. irregular would be that there's no pattern to when the disruption occurs)
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    What routes are valid within 'London Group' with a Basingstoke to London Terminals season ticket

    If I've understood things correctly, the map combination PZ+WX implies that Reading to Waterloo is valid as, for the relevant parts: PZ: Basingstoke > Reading > ... > LONDON GROUP WX: Reading > ... > Clapham Junction > LONDON GROUP If the intention of this map combination was to provide...
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    What routes are valid within 'London Group' with a Basingstoke to London Terminals season ticket

    Having renewed my annual season ticket this year I've opted for the Basingstoke to London Terminals (Any Permitted) ticket, albeit loaded onto an SWR smart card. When looking at the prices with the NRE Season Ticket Calculator I noted that it states that: With this ticket, using National Rail...
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    SWR consultation on late night services

    I’ve seen a few people tweet SWR regarding this and the response was that (paraphrased) the posters shouldn’t have gone up yet and will be taken down until they should go up. I’m guessing (probably incorrectly) that they were due to go up *after* the timetable change in December so as to not...
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    Calling any software developers

    It’s taken me far longer than it should’ve done to reply to this thread (thanks, yorkie, for the message!).. I can only blame the somewhat insane workload. Working in Foreign Exchange with ‘you know what’ looming on the horizon has made for a busy time of late. I started my career developing...
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    Should SWR have invested more in spent more money on Desiro repaints / interior refurbishments?

    So instead of increasing capacity on existing services and also adding additional services, the money would be better spent on painting the outside of the trains?
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    Should freight trains be held during peak hours?

    Probably a vanishingly small proportion. I was delayed many years ago by a freight train going up in smoke at/around Micheldever which meant that the CrossCountry train Inwas on went via Chandlers Ford/Andover. I’d be surprised if the impact that caused comes even remotely close to the train...
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    SWR Strike Action: Strikes every day in December except 1st, 12th, 25th & 26th

    Agreed, “none of the passengers now believe a word SWR says” is absolute rubbish. I work in an office that’s near Queenstown Road (aka: the station that feels like it’s most likely to have its service thinned or cancelled if there are problems) and I can’t say I’ve heard a single colleague say...
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    Trivia: Greatest variation of passenger traction working a specific service

    Clapham Junction to London Waterloo would have 8: 158, 159, 444, 450, 455, 456, 458, 707.
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    Season ticket change-over to 1st class (and back)

    Thanks for taking the time to give me a detailed reply, much appreciated! My season ticket is an annual so will meet the validity criteria at both change-over points. To clarify, my season is purchased on the last day of the previous year (in order to defer the price increase) so will have 6...
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    Season ticket change-over to 1st class (and back)

    I hold a season ticket from Basingstoke to Queenstown Road (via London permitted) that’s standard class. I’m contemplating upgrading to 1st, primarily because I usually change at Clapham Junction in the evening onto the 1657 which is a diesel train that has no air-con in the vestibules which is...
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    GWR's recent declining performance?

    I've just stepped through realtimetrains data and: 29/06 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C42593/2018/06/29 Cancelled (Signal Failure) 28/06 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C42593/2018/06/28 Delayed (2 minutes) 27/06 http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C42593/2018/06/27 Delayed (14...
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    GWR's recent declining performance?

    I know the plural of anecdote isn't "data", but,.. I get an early train from Basingstoke to Waterloo and it does seem that the first train from Reading to Basingstoke is listed as delayed more often than not recently, based on hearing the auto-announcer whilst waiting for my train. For commuters...
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    SWR: Guards/RMT Industrial Action. Next strike dates: 30/31 August, 1/2 September 2019

    I commute into London with SWR and want to say *thank you* to any of the guards who clean up after my slovenly peers. I habitually pick up any rubbish that's been left lying around and bin it as I get off the train and I'm appreciative of the fact that you do so as well, which makes my journey...
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    Season ticket for Basingstoke to Queenstown Road (Battersea) - extra validity?

    I have a season ticket for Basingstoke to Queenstown Road (Battersea), of the "via London" flavour that allows me to go via London Waterloo - essential given the paucity of peak services that stop at Clapham Junction. During the recent-ish disruption caused by a line-side fire, I used Battersea...
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    Is Realtimetrains down?

    Firstly, thanks for the time and effort you've put into RTT - you've helped to get me home earlier than I would've done otherwise on more than one occasion! :) Have you looked at migrating RTT to cloud hosting, either VMs or a re-working so that RTT runs "natively" (e.g. SQL Azure / Table...
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    'Only two bidders for SWT Franchise'

    The timetable in SWT-land is so intense that (IMO!) top-speed is much less important than acceleration. If every train was to gain the ability to reach its next stop 10 seconds earlier (due to improved acceleration) it seems like it'd do wonders for timekeeping given that passenger loadings mean...

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