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No they have reallocated the sets to Cardiff-Manchester.

That location allows for more rapid turnaround of the aircraft assuming landing on 28L and take off on 28R which is most of the time. Yes it does mean unfortunately mean a longer bus trip to and from T2 for passengers, but there are no suitable stands immediately around that terminal for the...

Correct.

Well there’s our answer - the non-stop workings are effectively positioning journeys to operate the busy trips in the direction of peak traffic flow.

What are the loadings like on the inbound services that it operates from Wigan?

I really meant from a passenger perspective. There’s a GWR service leaving Cardiff at 09:42 to Swansea arriving at 10:35 offering an 8 minute connection into the 10:43 TfW service to Fishguard. It’s only 15 mins later into Carmarthen and has a much shorter connection at Swansea than the ECS...

Does it really make that great a difference? There is a GWR service not far behind it from Bristol Parkway that connects into the 10:43 to Fishguard which serves Carmarthen 15 mins later.

Probably far better to plan for five sets out each day out of eight, that leaves more than enough redundancy to deliver a reliable service, with one set a hot spare, and two on exam. The last thing TfW need to do is over-commit. A good comparison is Iarnród Éireann, who have eight CAF built...

Not until the end of this year - the units for the Cambrian which operate those trips have yet to be delivered, tested and commissioned with the unique signalling there.

No - Iarnród Éireann have guards on the Enterprise.

It comes from Shrewsbury and returns to there. P3 is bi-directional.

To correct you on some of the above: Ballina drivers also work the freight trains from Ballina to Athlone. They do not work to Westport. Athlone drivers also drive the freight from Athlone to Ballina. Also, Rosslare is still a depot - the drivers based there don’t work any other route apart...

But Chester is going to be responsible for their maintenance, so I don’t really get your point.

Since the units that Machynlleth will be maintaining aren’t yet in service, what difference would that make?

Dublin Bus still have one.

The OP said in post #83 that he had not got the time to do it anymore

And very tasty the chips were too!

To be fair on that and the following weekend the railway line is shut west of Llandudno Junction due to engineering works.

There were no issues about Narberth Tunnel and the IETs - it was a load of unsubstantiated rumours. It required no modification work.

I think that you’re being wildly optimistic about people reducing flights out of Ireland. Dublin Airport, which has recently opened a new runway to cope with the demand, is now reporting record numbers of people flying each month, exceeding pre-pandemic numbers. As I’ve posted before, Aer...