3 Coaches from Manchester - Bournemouth?

[whole diary]

[Steve44]

From XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) website:

11:27 Manchester Piccadilly to Bournemouth due 16:15
This train will be formed of 3 coaches instead of 4.This is due to a train fault.

16:45 Bournemouth to Manchester Piccadilly due 21:40
This train will be formed of 3 coaches instead of 4.This is due to a train fault.

22:07 Manchester Piccadilly to Birmingham New Street due 23:40
This train will be formed of 3 coaches instead of 4.This is due to a train fault.


Is this a misprint? As in, should it be 4 coaches instead of 5? It just baffled me slightly.

[eightf48544]

One coach of a 4 car vomiter locked out of use.

Anyone seen it yet?

[inspector_blakey]

And you can bet it's not the first class vehicle locked out. What's the world coming to...? A three-car train on the Pines 

[devon_metro]

And you can bet it's not the first class vehicle locked out. What's the world coming to...? A three-car train on the Pines 

Believe it or not, First Class is often full! So makes more money

[Don]

Believe it or not, First Class is often full! So makes more money

First class on a 4 or 5 coach Voyager is a massive 19 seats.  Of course they're often full. 

XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) new HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) have over 80 1st class seats, so they are almost always empty. 

[Btline]

I wish someone would set fire to the Voyagers.

Preferably when their fuel tanks are full.....

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

I wish someone would set fire to the Voyagers.

Preferably when their fuel tanks are full.....

do you think xc would swap them for our pacers?

[dog box]

I wish someone would set fire to the Voyagers.

Preferably when their fuel tanks are full.....

do you think xc would swap them for our pacers?

quite possibly..what would FGW^▸ (First Great Western) do those heaving piles of junk

[devon_metro]

I wish someone would set fire to the Voyagers.

Preferably when their fuel tanks are full.....

Probably wouldn't be that exciting considering the fact that diesel isn't overly flammable.

[inspector_blakey]

Probably wouldn't be that exciting considering the fact that diesel isn't overly flammable.

 

You've never lit a brake van stove using old rags soaked in diesel, have you? I can confirm that it is (sometimes alarmingly) flammable under those circumstances. Definitely a case of "mind your eyebrows".

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

oh i dunno, add some petrol and you got 125mph petrol bombs... the diesel keeps the petrol alight ( should i be saying this?)

[Btline]

125 mph? Ha - that'll be the day!

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

125 mph? Ha - that'll be the day!

haha fair point more chance of a 125 pacer

[readytostart]

Back to the original post, it's unusual but possible for XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) to use their Turbostars on the Manchester - Birmingham route, using both ex VT^▸ (Virgin Trains - former franchise (or, possibly, in a France context, Versement Transport - a payroll tax on employers to fund local transport) ) and ex CT crew, expensive though.
Never heard of this happening Birmingham - Bournemouth but as far as I'm aware the 170's are passed for the route.

[cereal_basher]

This actually happened this week. Two 170s coupled together worked a Birmingham-Manchester portion of a train.