More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services

Full Member

Posts: 92

More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services

« on: February 22, 2023, 14:44:05 »

Made known by GWR^▸ during yesterday's Devon & Cornwall Local Transport forum was that they will be running more 4 car 158s on the Cardiff - Portsmouth services from May. Anyone know how this will be achieved? For instance does it mean that some 3 car 158s we be reformed into 2 car units. Possible end of 3 car 158s on the Tarka^▸ Line?


	Logged

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43062

Re: More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services

« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2023, 15:12:37 »

Quote from: TJ on February 22, 2023, 14:44:05

When are Transport for Wales releasing 158s?


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

Timmer

Global Moderator
Hero Member

Posts: 6551

Re: More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services

« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2023, 21:51:47 »

Quote from: TJ on February 22, 2023, 14:44:05

I just had a feeling that they would be coming back. Not that they have ever really left with 2-3 daily diagrams being 158 operated the norm.


	Logged

Hafren

Hero Member

Posts: 327

Re: More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services

« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2023, 22:39:50 »

Quote from: grahame on February 22, 2023, 15:12:37

When are Transport for Wales releasing 158s?

No inside information, but I can't see it being any time soon. From what I've read the 175s will be the first to leave TfW, and overall stock availability still seems quite tight. And the 158s with their attachment to the Cambrian lines and the amount of splitting and attaching that creates a tangled web of diagrams for the 197s to take over.


	Logged

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43062

Re: More 4 car 158s for Portsmouth services

« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2023, 23:30:00 »

I worked out from Real Time Trains what's happening in May 2023 ... and prepared a summary for this evenings's WWRUG^» meeting - just a couple of slides. I checked them for accuracy with GWR^▸ this afternoon - updates as per their additional feedback prior to the meeting. Now posted to WWRUG pages at https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwrug/posts/1010154083434711/ and also mirrored on our site within the whole of my presentation for this evening.

There are some really good winners in there on the boundary of the WECA^» area and as a result of the Bristol Metro. And it has moved on from being validated by Network Rail to being at the following stage which is DfT^» signoff. As part of the Bristol Metro project, not funded by the DfT, this has been characterised to me as being quite close to a formality.


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »