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6556  Journey by Journey / London to Reading / Re: One less HST stopping at Maidenhead from August 10th - pm? on: July 26, 2013, 11:02:07
Why not suggest to FGW (First Great Western) a temporary extra stop at Maidenhead on the 19:45 to Plymouth or the 20:00 to Bristol?  The 19:50 to Banbury could even stop there, but that's only a 3-car Turbo so might not be the best solution!

Either way, this is just the sort of change of service that should be plastered all over Maidenhead station on posters.
6557  Journey by Journey / London to Reading / Re: One less HST stopping at Maidenhead from August 10th - pm? on: July 25, 2013, 22:53:08
Does anyone know if the missing train (19.48 from Paddington) is going to be replaced with anything?

Doesn't look like it.
6558  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: 'National Rail Guide to Tickets' - ATOC on: July 25, 2013, 15:25:13
The changes are long overdue since the arrival of the advance purchase ticket has made restrictions so much more complicated, and will hopefully remove some of the confusion over when and where a ticket is valid.
6559  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: 2012's most overcrowded trains on: July 25, 2013, 15:23:10
They're all 'one-off' counts though, aren't they?

That's why they shouldn't be treated particularly seriously - but the 'busiest train in the Country' headlines will still be published.  No doubt all those top ten trains are exceptionally busy though, it's just that others might be just as busy on days when the count doesn't take place.
6560  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: 2012's most overcrowded trains on: July 25, 2013, 13:07:03
I think it does show that the TOCS have worked at sorting the Spring 2012 services out. In the Henley case moving pax around their services it seems. But the Oxford services don't feature now.

I think Henley can only be sorted by providing an extra service. More suitable stock is the only way to sort, so probably remaining a problem until Crossrail / electrification starts.

Yes, an extra service at the intermediate stops on the mainline rather than an extra service from Henley itself.  Those two Henley trains remain principal commuter services from Twyford and Maidenhead too and that's where the problem lies.  Though if you stop another long distance HST (High Speed Train) at either then that causes its own problems!
6561  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Turbo refresh started. on: July 25, 2013, 11:51:48
Interestingly last night I was on a service with all the windows bolted shut. By the time we got to Twyford I thought I was going to faint it was so bloody bad, so I dragged myself to the middle carriage, where low and behold it was a lovely temperature. Something is seriously wrong with these units!

I travelled on a unit that was the same yesterday.  Could have been the same unit I suppose, but the middle carriage seems to be your best bet for some reason!
6562  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Campaigns for new and improved services / Re: Carmarthen and Aberystwyth on: July 24, 2013, 11:55:04
The borders route will go to Edinburgh which is a massive centre of employment and should enable commuting to work within an hour for all the stations on the route.  Are Aberystwyth or Carmarthen a similar draw for the commuting population?  No.  And Swansea/Cardiff would be too far away to commute to.  So, if you don't have a large commuter base you're relying on tourists and day trippers to make up the numbers.  I don't see enough principal settlements or places of interest on the route to provide either in the numbers that would be required.  Are there really enough people out there that would use such a link to justify finding half-a-billion pounds (using Red Squirrel's estimate) to build it and then find more money to subsidise operating it?
6563  Sideshoots - associated subjects / Campaigns for new and improved services / Re: Carmarthen and Aberystwyth on: July 24, 2013, 10:34:57
What are the chances of this one happening?

Slim to non-existent in my opinion.
6564  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Turbo refresh started. on: July 24, 2013, 09:15:22
Well that surprises me..Seeing the amount of people per train in peak and the cost of tickets...

That's the reality and the rather perverse way the railway is financed.  Thames Trains and its heavily commuter based operation was just about breaking even when it was absorbed by First Group, but a package of improvements (including bringing the 180s onto the route) meant a subsidy was required for the LTV (London [and] Thames Valley) routes - I think it was around ^100m over two years?  I'm not sure how much of a profit the LTV routes currently make, if any, but it's counterbalanced with the loss making routes at the western end of the franchise.

As for the air-con, as I said before, let's give it another year - we're not yet out of one of the most prolonged heatwaves of recent years.  The contractors who installed the original system will have no shortage of faults to fix, but it remains the case that a few carriages in the fleet are still cooling very nicely - for some reason it seems to often be the middle carriage, so (unlike the first system which never really worked) at least there's a fighting chance that by next summer faults will have been resolved.
6565  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: Photographing GW stations - pre electrification on: July 23, 2013, 12:19:47
I've been busy out and about on the network over the last couple of years (concentrating on the 'west' end), and taking lots of 'before' pictures.  I'll return to these spots, which are stations, junctions and other areas of interest, in a couple of years for some 'after' pictures and do some comparisons in the same vein as I have done with some other places, such as Princes Risborough and Bicester North in the thread below:

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=7250.90

It will be interesting to see how many classic GWML (Great Western Main Line) views are spoilt by the coming of wires and gantries.  I will, of course, share the best of them with the forum.
6566  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: July 22, 2013, 10:40:41
Bit off topic now (mods to move to the Crossrail thread?), but I think that a sensible seating layout for the Crossrail design would be 2+2 metro style seating (as on the LM (London Midland - recent franchise)/LO Class 172s) for part of the train which works out at about 60 seats per carriage and longitudinal seating for the other part at around 32 seats per carriage.

If you had the middle four carriages as longitudinal and the three carriages at either end as 2+2 metro then that would give you around 490 seats which is similar to the spec - slight reductions for disabled spaces, bike spaces and toilets might be needed to take that back down to somewhere near the specified 450 seats.

That would mean those who are travelling longer distances from places like Taplow and Burnham could get relatively comfy seating at either end of the train, with those travelling shorter distances in the core section able to pack into the middle carriages with their ample standing room.  Just an idea...
6567  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: HOOP - High Output Overhead line equipment Plant - coming to Great Western on: July 20, 2013, 20:42:24
So yes BR (British Rail(ways)) did have construction trains, long gone now they would have evolved I guess if we as a nation had not just stopped electrifying railways 30 years ago

If I remember correctly, several carriages of which ended their days languishing in Hinksey Yard towards the latter part of the 1990s?
6568  Journey by Journey / Swindon to Gloucester / Cheltenham / Re: Proposal for additional platforms at Cheltenham on: July 19, 2013, 14:09:33
video of scheme available on:

www.northtosouthrailways.co.uk

Very good video simulation that - better than our official route learning ones!
6569  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: HOOP - High Output Overhead line equipment Plant - coming to Great Western on: July 19, 2013, 14:07:39
DfT» (Department for Transport - about) have said they want electric trains running between Reading and Oxford by the end 2015!!!!

End of 2016 I think you'll find.  That might make all the difference in terms of stock cascades!
6570  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Main Line electrification - ongoing discussion on: July 18, 2013, 22:08:46
We'll see!  Southern won't exist from July 2015 by the time these trains arrive, and I'm a bit lost on what the effect of the expanded Thameslink network (and the new Siemens trains) will have on  existing services, and thus how much released stock will be available for other services, on Southern's current network.
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