Spot the mistake

Worcester_Passenger

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Spot the mistake

« on: December 11, 2011, 20:27:12 »

From the BBC^» British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

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London Midlands: Extra seats on West Midlands trains

More than 2,300 extra seats a day are being made available on West Midlands trains in a battle against overcrowding.

London Midland said the increased capacity, from Sunday, would come from additional services and in some cases extra carriages.

The company runs services from Birmingham to stations across the West Midlands.

It follows a ^93m investment in new rolling stock announced in August.

London Midland replaced 150 of its 25-year-old fleet with 172 new trains, which entered service in the autumn.

Alex Hynes, from the company, said the changes would "go a considerable way to addressing overcrowding on several routes across the Midlands".

Walsall and Leamington services are due to see the greatest increases with more than 600 extra seats across the day.

The company said the Lichfield to Redditch line would see extra seats made available by increasing the number of trains across the day.

It added that some services between Lichfield and Redditch and from Shrewsbury to Birmingham would also see shorter journey times.

Moderator note: Edited to add hyperlink to BBC news item. bignosemac


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bobg

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Re: Spot the mistake

« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2011, 20:42:30 »

Nice,
Looks like someone misread Class 150 and Class 172 somewhere...
and assumed that was the number of trains replaced


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JayMac

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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 21:57:05 »

Did all 150 of those old trains come south to FGW^▸ ?

That really would've solved the capacity issues. Roll Eyes


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Btline

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Re: Spot the mistake

« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2011, 23:23:13 »

In fact the number of 172 carriages is 1 fewer than the no of 150s! And each carriage has ~10 fewer seats (albeit 2+2).

I wonder how the Snow Hill lines will get extra carriages then... Grin


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Spot the mistake

« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2011, 23:25:50 »

Hmm. The wording in that BBC^» News item has now been amended:

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London Midland replaced its ageing 150 class fleet with new 172 class trains, which entered service in the autumn.

Journalists, eh? Roll Eyes


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Re: Spot the mistake

« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2011, 23:29:50 »

I'd like to think that someone at BBC^» News Towers was reading this thread or the similar ones on other rail forums and went ahead with an edit....

Either that or they read my email pointing out the error..... Roll Eyes

That said, the headline still reads 'London Midlands'.....


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