Great Western Coffee Shop

Current Unit Allox for Saturday:

ATW 150229: Falmouth Branch.

ATW 150231:
2C41 06:10 PAR to PNZ.
2P03 07:45 PNZ to PLY.
2C44 10:00 PLY to PNZ.

150246: St.Ives.
153369: Newquay.
153373: Looe.

Thanks for the heads up.  ;)

Is 373 still red?

AFAIK Yes, haven't heard otherwise, thinking of going?

373 has been refurbished.

Was swapped with Newquay unit anyway.

231 has lost it's Arriva branding.

229 had the destination City Line on both ends yesterday, driver obviously thought he was being cleaver.  :D
I thought the Arriva units were really uncomfortable, the seats had hardly any leg room, left you feeling claustrophobic and had no arm rests.
The 150/1's are much more comfortable even though they have the same seating layout.
And when Central rfurbished those 150's they hardly did anyhting, only looked like new seats and that was it, Intermediate Door Controls were only fitted by Arriva just before coming to us, a pretty bad refurb by Central.
Also of note 158760+153372 formed the 06:48 BTM-PNZ to make me happy.  ;D

Nothing like the train at Starcross off to Windemere ;)

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l50/liamy_2006/swr/db3.jpg

Blaeneu Flestiniog anybody?

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l50/liamy_2006/swr/db2.jpg

I bet the drivers are having a right laugh confusing the passengers.
City Line was quite clever with Truro being the only city in Cornwall.
There is a 142 going to Stockport aswell.

They've got a whole Northern destination blinds set

 Central had those units for about 5 minutes.

Those refurbs were done during the 10 years they were at Anglia

Oh, didn't know that. Thanks.
It is pretty bad though.

150229 formed the 0905 Nailsea to Taunton service this morning, but the destination board was (rather disappointingly) just 'Taunton'!  I was hoping to see 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' at the very least!

I rather liked the Arriva TW refurb / livery, though - but only from what I saw of it, from the opposite platform.

Inside is like the Silverlink 150/1's but with less comfortable seats and less leg room, I didn't like it at all.

Conner, they're commuter trains not the Manchester Pullman!!!!!!!

Still a world away from the Wessex 150's.

By redoing the layout of their 150s Wessex did improve the fleet giving more space in the carriage by removing some seats and installing tables. Its good to see that FGW have kept that layout in their refurb of the fleet.

Speaking of 150s I notice that they have been appearing more frequently on the Brighton services recently.