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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Problems with IET trains from April 2021
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on: May 11, 2021, 18:48:46
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"The only "fly in the ointment" is passenger comfort. IET▸ ▸ supporters both in GWR▸ and informed persons on these fora have gone to a great deal of trouble to persuade us that IETs are lovely trains, ideal for GWR routes, and that only a few old farts consider them to be a backward step. Use of old stock, whether HSTs▸ or other even older trains will involve a certain amount of loss of face. If significant numbers of passengers actually prefer the old trains and say so in the media or on trip advisor and the like, then very considerable loss of face will result."[/i]
So true. On Sunday I went up to London on the SWR» Waterloo service. The seats were lovely, soft, deep, comfortable and brought into sharp focus how truly awful are the rigid board seats that the GWR IETs have.
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Journey by Journey / South Western services / Exeter -Waterloo total lack of information on National Rail and GWR
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on: May 10, 2021, 12:04:06
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Given that Exeter -Waterloo provides a perfectly adequate route to London in the current GWR▸ IET▸ fiasco, it is incredible to me me that neither GWR or the National Rail Information apps give any easily accessible advice on travelling from Devon and Cornwall to London via the Waterloo route. All you get from National Rail is a list of the cancelled GWR trains, and all GWR gives is their lengthy Exeter-Bristol- Swindon- Reading - Paddington contingency. Anyone would think the Waterloo route did not exist!
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