More trains originating/terminating beyond bedwyn for Hungerford and Bedwyn?

[whole diary]

[swlines]

Now I have lost you. Completely.

Each unit is built slightly differently anyway - 442s were all the same but the wiring was unique to the unit - same as 444s, 450s, 377s, etc.

[eightf48544]

MML^» (Midland Main Line. - about) and Hull trains cloned some.

And LM^▸ (London Midland - recent franchise)/Chiltern/LO are at the mo!

I think what Btline means is that Hull and MML used what were essentially Voyagers reconfigured and Chiltern uses 168s which are 170s designed to work with 16X units. LO are also goingto use an existing design modified for East and North london lines.

So a cloned 180 would be an Adelante with some of its deficiencies ironed out.

[Btline]

It is the wrong use of the word clone. I suppose it should be "mutation" (but for the better).

[Westernchallenger]

Off-peak, few passengers use Bedwyn and it is not unusual to be the only passenger. It really is a nonsense terminating a train in what is a very small village and on an hourly basis too. The only reason the trains go there is to serve Hungerford (which has no turnback facilities) and to provide a railhead for Marlborough. In the off-peak it's invariably quicker though to travel from Marlborough to London via Pewsey (albeit at a higher fare). I think that demand justifies an hourly service only at Hungerford and that Bedwyn and Kintbury really only need a 2-hourly service off-peak.   

[Lee]

I think that demand justifies an hourly service only at Hungerford and that Bedwyn and Kintbury really only need a 2-hourly service off-peak.

I can think of a certain MP^▸ (Member of Parliament) who might have something to say about that....

[Westernchallenger]

But does he ever use the train from Bedwyn? It's the old story of those who shout loudest getting what they want. The reality is that somewhere the size of Bedwyn does not warrant an hourly service and when the route was resignalled in teh late 70s the turnback siding should have been provided at Hungerford and Bedwyn served more or less peak only as it was in the past