Light refreshments in Coach A

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[smithy]

And why can't the trolley move down the train?

Because the train is crammed with passengers - full and standing - out of Paddington and well beyond Reading, for example?

It's static because a couple collasped. There were some injuries i am led to believe.

Hang on, I thought FGW^▸ (First Great Western) had scrapped the idea of axing buffet cars (backed up with some pathetic idea that removing them would "improve acceleration")?

It's like smithy said a seven car set will go like stickey brown stuff off a shovel so that theroy is correct. However one will also do the same when a ordinary coach is missing!

quite correct if a normal carriage is removed it will increase acceleration also,but with the buffet (heaviest carriage) removed the acceleration is even quicker

[swlines]

Taken from the big book of knowledge (ie, diagrams); following services on Monday to Friday are booked as 2+7 high density, no buffet:

05.52 Moreton-in-Marsh to London Paddington
06.00 Plymouth to London Paddington
06.08 Westbury to London Paddington
07.15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
07.22 London Paddington to Oxford
07.48 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
08.18 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids
09.06 Oxford to London Paddington
09.48 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
09.55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
10.31 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington
10.51 London Paddington to Oxford
11.54 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington
12.22 London Paddington to Oxford
12.31 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington
12.31 Oxford to London Paddington
13.15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
14.15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
14.31 Oxford to London Paddington
15.22 London Paddington to Oxford
15.48 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
15.51 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street
15.55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
16.55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington
17.01 Oxford to London Paddington
18.31 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington
18.33 London Paddington to Oxford
18.36 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids
18.49 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington
19.30 London Paddington to Weston-super-Mare
21.01 Oxford to London Paddington

[Btline]

Too many of these.

Some of the journeys are too long for buffets also - and that's without a sub for a Penzance train!

Are FGW^▸ (First Great Western) refubing the remaining buffets yet?

[devon_metro]

Too many of these.

Some of the journeys are too long for buffets also - and that's without a sub for a Penzance train!

Are FGW^▸ (First Great Western) refubing the remaining buffets yet?

Its only 5 diagrams(1 Spare). Besides I thought HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) didn't have good enough acceleration for the Cotswolds?

Although, yes, they don't see to be very well organised with too many long journeys. But thats the way it works. I doubt 4 HSTs are needed for OXF^» (Oxford - next trains)-PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) and return. The set to Plymouth would also appear to be due to maintenance. 1A82 (0600 PLY^» (Plymouth - next trains)-PAD) is also probably the least slacky of FGWs trains. Does the journey in 3 hours calling Newton A, Exeter SD, Taunton, Reading and Paddington so could do with the reduced weight.