Recent content by Goldfish62

That was the case with all privatisations in the 80s and early 90s.

Thanks - that's a very fair and informative response to my admittedly cynical comment!

There's a lot of negativity on this thread about these proposals. I never realised that so many people were satisfied with the current state of the railways. Or maybe it's just negativity without any counter-proposals.

Even though 100mph 458s have operated on the South Western before. And before anyone says they were 90 mph, on the Juniper rail tour in 2014 the pair of units were authorised to run at up to 100mph. Sounds like just further delaying tactics by SWR.

Indeed. And in any case passenger numbers aren't at pre-Covid levels as the OP claims and revenue is even further behind.

Thanks - that makes sense. 1713903299 But I suppose the longer it goes on the government's thinking is that as people adapt and move to other modes the impact reduces.

Last time round on overtime ban days SWR was only running a 50% service level outside the peaks, with last trains being an hour or so earlier. I find it hard to believe that SWR have this much reliance on overtime.

No point. 16 years old and severe fire damage. One way trip to Barnsley.

Ah yes. And happens to show as withdrawn on BusTimes, having last appeared last Friday.

There was a nasty bus fire on the A30 near Bodmin this morning, involving a First Kernow B9TL. It was in Urban livery so presumably one of 37241, 37244 or 37245.

They tried national strikes and they didn't work, which is why they're now trying different TOCs on different days, which of course also won't work.

A friend of mine recently retired from a TOC after 27 years service. He knew he wasn't safeguarded when he joined back in 1997. It's not a problem and he accepts it.

SWR has stated 12-18 months, so yes. Actually quite quick for such a large fleet.

This is very true. When it was all agreed it was expected that the trains would be in service "shortly". 1713432444 Agreed! They really don't care anymore. Even though the last ASLEF strikes received more media attention than previously there was barely a peep from Government.

This seems to be the equivalent of the SWR Class 701 introduction.