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« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2012, 15:19:54 »

FGW (First Great Western) didn't explicitly announce that they were new:

"Two three-car Class 150 trains - six carriages - will also be leased and refreshed to operate weekday
commuter services between Reading and Basingstoke, increasing peak capacity by around 13 per cent."

There is cover in case of failure, they would bring a 165 off the depot.  With the best will in the world, unless the failure is at the Reading end, and a driver is sitting in the cab of a spare unit waiting to go, it is almost certainly going to cause a gap in the frequency at Basingstoke - just like it would if a 165 failed...

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« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2012, 18:33:48 »

It seems to take an inordinate amount of time for the door light to illuminate when stopping at stations and then again to get moving again.

It will do compared with a Turbo where drivers operate the doors.  Though that sort of delay is commonplace throughout the country on stock where a similar door procedure takes place (i.e. non DOO (Driver-Only Operation (that is, trains which operate without carrying a guard)) services).  For example, on the Reading to Waterloo line.  I think the punctuality (and reliability) issues will bed down and improve over the coming months though - after all these are different types of train operationally to a Turbo and it will take staff a little while to get used to them.
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« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2012, 23:29:30 »

What the First Great Western press release actually said was:

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EXTRA CAPACITY ON READING TO BASINGSTOKE ROUTE

Two class 150 trains have gone into service on the weekday commuter route between Reading and Basingstoke, increasing overall seating capacity on the line by 22%.

Last November First Great Western announced they were successful in securing and investing in 48 additional carriages to come into service across our network between February and September 2012.

For Basingstoke commuters, we obtained two three-car Class 150 trains - six carriages -  which were previously in operation for London Midland.  The units were refreshed at our Reading depot with staff working as quickly as possible to bring them into use.

One of the units began working the 10:07 and 15:07 Reading-Basingstoke from Jan 30, and the other 150 officially went into service on March 2.

The extra capacity has been hailed by commuters and disabled travel campaigners.   

Basingstoke MP (Member of Parliament) Maria Miller said:

^It is good news for passengers on this route that there is now more seating available, which will be particularly welcomed by commuters travelling at peak times

^I was also pleased to hear that the new trains are more accessible for disabled people too, with each train carrying its own ramp, and more space available on board for wheelchair users. It is really important for disabled people to be able to get around, and I applaud First Great Western on giving this the priority it deserves.^

First Great Western General Manager Claire Mann said:
 
"These trains are an important part of our commitment to reduce crowding on our services in the London and Thames Valley area, and will improve capacity for commuters between Basingstoke and Reading by some 22 per cent.

"Over the past six weeks our staff have given their all to get these trains into fantastic shape for our customers, and from the comments I've had today, I know they're already noticing a real difference."
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« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2012, 12:56:33 »

But my quote was from the original press release about the trains in November, you must be quoting from a later announcement, which doesn't seem to be easily found on FGW (First Great Western)'s website.

http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/~/media/PDF/Press%20Releases/HLOS%20-%20General%20and%20for%20website.pdf

In any case, we all use the word 'new' in different ways - for instance when buying second hand stuff like houses or cars.  The attempted point scoring sometimes seen about the word new is a bit silly really.  If all the announcements only used the word 'additional' they'd seem very repetitive...

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« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2012, 20:38:31 »

Sorry for any misunderstanding, Paul - I wasn't contradicting you at all.

The point I was trying to make was that the only use of the word 'new', in connection with these additional trains, in that press release was made by the local MP (Member of Parliament):

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Basingstoke MP Maria Miller said: ^I was also pleased to hear that the new trains are more accessible for disabled people too ... "

Hence the rather tetchy letter to the Basingstoke Gazette, which I had quoted previously.

Hope this clarifies the point.  Smiley

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« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2012, 08:49:31 »

Slightly off topic, But I did spot a 3 car 150 at the junction for SPM (St Philip's Marsh (Bristol depot)) on Tuesday Smiley
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« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2012, 09:50:54 »

Slightly off topic, But I did spot a 3 car 150 at the junction for SPM (St Philip's Marsh (Bristol depot)) on Tuesday Smiley

I think there are four of them about - the two on the Basingstoke run, and two more based at Bristol which are 1501xx units with an extra centre car of the 1502xx types .  Due to accidents, there are two 1502xx cars that can't be coupled to form a train (lack of loo or wheelchair space, I think) so they have made up 3 car units.   I was on one on the Sunday evening TransWilts train the other week.
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« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2012, 18:38:51 »

Yes.  There are 4 of them.  150001 and 150002 working Reading to Basigstoke and 150121 and 150127 augmented to 3 Cars with spare odd carriages.   They are employed in the Bristol area.
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« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2012, 12:49:11 »

150001 and 150002 working Reading to Basingstoke

Is 150002 sick ? It had been disappearing a lot intra-day for months but a 165 seems to have been running this route along with 150001 for quite some days now.
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« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2012, 14:11:20 »

Only one of the 150s is booked to be out all day now. The other one has a couple of hours off in the middle of the day. Usually 150001 works all day with 150002 having the daytime rest, and everybody says how 150002 is the more unreliable of the two.
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« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2012, 17:03:47 »

Only one 150 in traffic while CCTV (Closed Circuit Tele Vision) is fitted to 150001
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