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« on: July 25, 2023, 12:53:15 »
Meet the Managing Director, 24/7/2023 - extra questions to Mark Hopwood
Quote from: Mark Hopwood on July 25, 2023, 10:04:19
Graham has sent me the questions that we didnt have time to do and my comments are:

Can we ask him to extend 1B20 to Carmarthen instead of 1B21? It would result in a useful extra westbound departure in the evening peak at Cardiff and avoid a prolonged stop at Swansea on the Carmarthen service. The trade-off of cancelling the extremely lightly loaded 1L29, which is swapped for a set that goes into North Pole Depot at Paddington, and duplicates 1L86 all the way in from Swindon, is a price worth paying for getting the trains operating predominantly in the peak direction in the evening peak in South Wales.

RESPONSE - I am investigating this with the Train Planners but there are issues it creates but worth a look!
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