I've held back from commenting on this before, but I wondered from the beginning how all the 'guff' about increased capacity would actually work out when commuters from Yatton, Nailsea and Backwell and other stations between WSM and BRI» who had the 'luxury' of some 8 coach HSTs▸ supplementing the 2/3 coach locals at peak times found them reduced in capacity to 5 coaches. I am sure others are right in saying that the media will have a field day if/when they realise that one of the excuses for fare rises is daily being flouted and possibly even planned for a reduction. They will probably not be interested as to whether it is the DfT» or GWR▸ who are to blame: it's 'the railways'.
Very true - although I seldom boarded an 8 car HST at Weston to find it full.
When all the gloss has been taken away and the flim-flam forgotten, we will find that we asked for one thing, were told we were getting another, and ended up with some rather different. You're right - it's "the railways", and everybody had better get busy blaming everybody else.