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« Reply #1155 on: November 06, 2018, 17:21:58 » |
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I've put this here because of my suspicious nature about these new trains...
From the train running info it states the 2003 Pad Ply is cancelled due to severe weather but the 2103 will run normally. Now I know high tide at Dawlish is about 1730 so that's can't be the issue, so what is?
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8 Billion people on a wet rock - of course we're not happy
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« Reply #1157 on: November 06, 2018, 18:01:58 » |
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I've put this here because of my suspicious nature about these new trains...
From the train running info it states the 2003 Pad Ply is cancelled due to severe weather but the 2103 will run normally. Now I know high tide at Dawlish is about 1730 so that's can't be the issue, so what is?
Now reads: 20:03 London Paddington to Plymouth due 23:36 will be reinstated.
It will be started from Exeter St Davids.
It will no longer call at London Paddington, Reading, Newbury, Pewsey, Westbury, Castle Cary, Taunton and Tiverton Parkway.
This is due to forecasted severe weather.
Will be formed of 4 coaches instead of 10.
Additional Information
GWR▸ apologies for the cancellation of this service between London Paddington and Exeter St Davids due to forecast severe weather in Devon & Cornwall overnight Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The 21:03 London Paddington to Plymouth service will run as scheduled and customers are advised to board this service. Somehow that doesn't look like the whole story, does it? |
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« Reply #1158 on: November 06, 2018, 18:06:06 » |
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I can only think so a 10 car IET▸ isn’t stuck all morning in Devon?
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« Reply #1159 on: November 06, 2018, 18:17:01 » |
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Certainly easier having HST▸ 's/units stuck that side at the moment than having two IET▸ sets stuck there.
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« Reply #1160 on: November 06, 2018, 18:47:22 » |
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I've put this here because of my suspicious nature about these new trains...
From the train running info it states the 2003 Pad Ply is cancelled due to severe weather but the 2103 will run normally. Now I know high tide at Dawlish is about 1730 so that's can't be the issue, so what is?
Now reads: 20:03 London Paddington to Plymouth due 23:36 will be reinstated.
It will be started from Exeter St Davids.
It will no longer call at London Paddington, Reading, Newbury, Pewsey, Westbury, Castle Cary, Taunton and Tiverton Parkway.
This is due to forecasted severe weather.
Will be formed of 4 coaches instead of 10.
Additional Information
GWR▸ apologies for the cancellation of this service between London Paddington and Exeter St Davids due to forecast severe weather in Devon & Cornwall overnight Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The 21:03 London Paddington to Plymouth service will run as scheduled and customers are advised to board this service. Somehow that doesn't like the whole story, does it? If everything was honky-dory they could run the service to Exeter St. Davids so I "smell a rat" and suspect they are being economical with the truth. |
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« Reply #1161 on: November 06, 2018, 18:50:50 » |
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If everything was honky-dory they could run the service to Exeter St. Davids so I "smell a rat" and suspect they are being economical with the truth.
Well the sets stables overnight at Laira, so if you ran it to Exeter then you'd either have to find somewhere else to stable it (nearest IET▸ approved facility is Stoke Gifford), or run it empty to Laira (which kind of defeats the object of it not getting struck that side of Dawlish, if that's the reason). |
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« Reply #1162 on: November 07, 2018, 07:57:52 » |
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From today's Daily Telegraph letters page:  |
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« Reply #1163 on: November 09, 2018, 23:49:04 » |
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Someone has come late to the party...
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« Reply #1164 on: November 10, 2018, 17:16:41 » |
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With the short forms still happening, 13 months after the introduction of the new trains and with the twitter help actually admitting that the shorts are due to staff training, do we know if there is an end in sight for the training?
Does anyone have an up to date timeline/programme for the IEP▸ programme showing the introduction of new trains, when the staff training will finish, infrastructure upgrades etc...
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« Reply #1165 on: November 10, 2018, 19:26:39 » |
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With the short forms still happening, 13 months after the introduction of the new trains and with the twitter help actually admitting that the shorts are due to staff training, do we know if there is an end in sight for the training?
Does anyone have an up to date timeline/programme for the IEP▸ programme showing the introduction of new trains, when the staff training will finish, infrastructure upgrades etc...
You should see 800001 and 800002 on the network next week freeing up some more duties and by January shortforms should be at 1 or 2 a day due to stock shortage. All five car 802s are now in the UK▸ however they are only slowly putting them onto lines and through Swindon there should be no HSTs▸ by march excluding substitution and empty stock. HSTs will solely be diagramed onto B and H. This time next month, excluding substitution and STP (Short Term Plan Diagrams) all services to and from Cheltenham should be Intercity Express operated, and the line will he the first to see full IET▸ introduction. From January there should only be 5 HST Diagrams to Wales and Bristol (possibly 4) and slowly going by March. No HSTs planned for Cotswolds for after January. Thanks to the new timetable now being postponed to December 3000, there will be more available units than required between February and December meaning that to see a short form it would be very rare. |
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« Reply #1166 on: November 10, 2018, 19:29:29 » |
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Thanks to the new timetable now being postponed to December 3000, there will be more available units than required between February and December meaning that to see a short form it would be very rare.
I can't say I'm truly surprised at the 982 year delay, only at the forward planning.  |
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« Reply #1167 on: November 10, 2018, 22:46:36 » |
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Thanks to the new timetable now being postponed to December 3000, there will be more available units than required between February and December meaning that to see a short form it would be very rare.
I can't say I'm truly surprised at the 982 year delay, only at the forward planning. It wasn’t a typo  It was, I meant May 4000. |
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« Reply #1168 on: November 10, 2018, 23:31:20 » |
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With the short forms still happening, 13 months after the introduction of the new trains and with the twitter help actually admitting that the shorts are due to staff training, do we know if there is an end in sight for the training?
Does anyone have an up to date timeline/programme for the IEP▸ programme showing the introduction of new trains, when the staff training will finish, infrastructure upgrades etc...
You should see 800001 and 800002 on the network next week freeing up some more duties and by January shortforms should be at 1 or 2 a day due to stock shortage. All five car 802s are now in the UK▸ however they are only slowly putting them onto lines and through Swindon there should be no HSTs▸ by march excluding substitution and empty stock. HSTs will solely be diagramed onto B and H. This time next month, excluding substitution and STP (Short Term Plan Diagrams) all services to and from Cheltenham should be Intercity Express operated, and the line will he the first to see full IET▸ introduction. From January there should only be 5 HST Diagrams to Wales and Bristol (possibly 4) and slowly going by March. No HSTs planned for Cotswolds for after January. Thanks to the new timetable now being postponed to December 3000, there will be more available units than required between February and December meaning that to see a short form it would be very rare. That answers the carriage introduction but what about the training that is also sapping available stock? |
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« Reply #1169 on: November 10, 2018, 23:33:13 » |
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With the short forms still happening, 13 months after the introduction of the new trains and with the twitter help actually admitting that the shorts are due to staff training, do we know if there is an end in sight for the training?
Long way to go until driver training is complete, though in fairness to GWR▸ they are undertaking it at quite a pace currently. We are talking about many hundreds of drivers being trained in total, each of which takes 3 weeks minimum to train up. At least two units are being used for training per day, but in some cases they are using units that have yet to enter traffic. |
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