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Title: See!vFirst Great Western can still win awards! Post by: 12hoursunday on March 01, 2008, 12:31:48 HSBC Rail Awards on Feb 2
http://www.therailwaycentre.com/News%20February%202008/290208_FGW.html (http://www.therailwaycentre.com/News%20February%202008/290208_FGW.html) Title: Re: See!vFirst Great Western can still win awards! Post by: willc on March 01, 2008, 13:21:00 Quote a step change in the levels of comfort Hmm. So have Mr Boot-Handford or the awards judges ever travelled London to Plymouth or Penzance in one of these super-trains with inner-suburban seating arrangements? Title: Re: See!vFirst Great Western can still win awards! Post by: Phil on March 01, 2008, 13:29:20 To be fair, it doesn't state whether it's a step upwards or a step downwards...
Title: Re: See!vFirst Great Western can still win awards! Post by: Btline on March 01, 2008, 14:37:26 Quote ...All the re-engineering work was completed on time... Was it? Quote from: Wikipedia The entire fleet was to be withdrawn by the end of 2007, due to their poor reliability, this has now been put back until the HST Refresh programme has finished. It implies that the refresh overran. Indeed, timetables for December 07 did not include the Adelante symbol. Title: Re: See!vFirst Great Western can still win awards! Post by: Conner on March 01, 2008, 14:51:23 Quote ...All the re-engineering work was completed on time... Was it? Quote from: Wikipedia The entire fleet was to be withdrawn by the end of 2007, due to their poor reliability, this has now been put back until the HST Refresh programme has finished. It implies that the refresh overran. Indeed, timetables for December 07 did not include the Adelante symbol. Yes it did overrun, it was meant to be finished by December, all carriages, including Buffets. It wasn't finished to early February. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |