Earlier Plymouth Arrival From London Consultation

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[LiskeardRich]

Be a good use of stock but I thought it was only the number of sleeper coaches which changed at weekends rather than seated coaches?

It's been reported as part of the current franchise extension, they must add an extra seated carriage to Friday down and Sunday up in the summer.

[bobm]

Forgotten that - I thought it was an extra coach of sleeper berths.  Thanks.

[Southern Stag]

What capacity would such a service add, and the benefit of starting from Par as surely there will be all the Newquay summer services providing this journey already?

The service that it's working has always started in Par on a Summer Saturday, it was previously worked by a Class 150 unit. It doesn't really provide a boost in capacity but along with a number of other changes in Cornwall on Summer Saturdays which will see an increase in the number of services worked by HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) it will free up DMUs^▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) for use elsewhere.