First Class Weekend Upgrade

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Perhaps refusing to extend platforms due to cost would mean that trains were unable to call at the small stations and all trains could run fast from London to Worcester. I imagine the trains would be packed with those businesspeople currently on Chiltern

No, because the new stock will have SDO^▸ (Selective Door Opening). (perhaps it is a requirement now)

[willc]

sdo doesn't work too well if two 4 car units are put together, if 5 of the coaches overhang the platform, thats ok i will use the connecting corridor, oh wait look like im getting off at the next stop, at least i wont get a penalty fair as there is only 1 guard and he cant get threw,

my lame sarcasm and poor spelling not withstanding, do i maybe have a point?

But as I said earlier, the Cotswold Line is unlikely to see coupled sets in use - the issue is providing a sensible-sized train, of decent comfort, for the route's off-peak services where an HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) is carting many empty seats around. It's pretty clear from the mix of three and four-car sets that are meant to be coming to the Thames Valley that you would be splitting and joining at Oxford to maximise seating between there and Paddington - as has been done with Turbos for many years under BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)), Thames and FGW^▸ (First Great Western). In which circumstances, you don't really need a corridor connection.