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How many ATW 150's do FGW have? I noticed 2 ATW 150s today on Cardiff-Taunton diagrams. Are they going to return to ATW any time soon?

FGW currently have two ATW 150s on hire on any one day, presumably not Sundays though. The diagrams start and finish at Cardiff so different sets are likely to be used each day. This arrangement will no doubt continue until the London Midland 150s start arriving.

Oh right, i didnt realise that they used different units each time, i assumed they had some on loan which stayed with FGW permanently until they gave them back. Strange to see an ATW train on a FGW service.

it used to be quite common to see one at plymouth,i have a few shots of them on the sea wall, however ive not seen one past taunton recently

FGW use 2 X 150 from ATW on Sundays during this Summer and venture almost to Lands End !!!   The 2 am Bristol to Penzance services after staying at PM overnight Saturday.  They then return to Cardif Sunday evening.

Perhaps they used one on the 9am from Cardiff which extends from Taunton to Plymouth. What usually runs that service now?

When there were 5 and later 4 ATW 150s virtually semi allocated to FGW they would have worked everywhere FGW ones would have.   Now, of course, there are in effect 2 ATW Diagrams working FGW services which, I believe have been documented earlier on other threads.

FGW also 'loan' drivers from ATW into South Wales from Bristol Temple Meads- is it just on the Portsmouth trains or on the Taunton services too?

08.56 from Highbridge was an ATW 150 yesterday ( approx 08.30 from Taunton to Parkway) and there was another new paint job 9cannot remember which company) at Temple Meads yesterday afternoon