Good point.
One assumes that the train planners have got this right and have several other services leaving for Oxford just before and just after 1751.
But we will all have to keep an eye on the loadings and see how it pans out.
(One day I'll get to ride on an Adelante (probably in the North East somewhere))
"Every seat taken" is fine, and represents efficient use of stock. It's the level of standing that's important.
As ever when Adelanted, the 17.51 arrived Oxford with every standard seat taken, plenty of seats beyond.
Thing is this was a Monday night in December, ie not the busiest of times. This is a very difficult train to cover. It runs amid three
HSTs▸ (17.22, 18.22 and 19.22) which are going all the way to Hereford, so capacity west of Oxford isn't an issue, but is a very important service for people heading home from London to Oxford and that extra
TSO▸ in an HST, plus high-capacity seating, comes in very handy on the busy nights. It won't be fun next Wednesday! I'm assuming an HST will return once the extra 125 is available from the spring.
