Fully booked to Cornwall

Timmer

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Re: Fully booked to Cornwall

« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2009, 17:30:05 »

Confirmed by SWT^▸ MD Stewart Palmer during last week's SWT Webchat that a 158 takes over the Lymington branch Mon-Fri from May 2010 with a 450 running the service at weekends.

http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/SWTrains/Customerservice/LC/TrainsRollingStock.htm

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I can confirm that the units will be withdrawn from the Lymington branch at the May timetable change in 2010. We evaluated all the options for rolling stock on the Lymington branch and came to the conclusion that the most cost-effective solution in the long term is to provide a Class 158 diesel Monday to Friday and a Class 450 at weekends.


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grahame

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Re: Fully booked to Cornwall

« Reply #31 on: September 06, 2009, 08:10:54 »

I have split off the question of the Lymington trains into a separate new thread:

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=5281.msg49790#msg49790

Although the line is run by SWT^▸ , it is an interesting case that it will - it seems - be run with stock that's Salisbury based from next May ... stock which has recently been providing services such as Westbury -> Swindon, Swindon <-> Gloucester / Cheltenham and (I think) Cheltenham -> Bristol and Westbury. And I'm not at all clear that I understand the justification of swicthing the line to a 158 - my cynical mind smells a potential rat.


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Re: Fully booked to Cornwall

« Reply #32 on: September 07, 2009, 19:36:09 »

Quote from: grahame on September 06, 2009, 08:10:54

Exactly, that 158 could be running a decent Transwilts service! How a TOC^▸ can have spare DMUs^▸ lying around in this day and age....


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devon_metro

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Re: Fully booked to Cornwall

« Reply #33 on: September 07, 2009, 19:37:37 »

When I went past Salisbury on Saturday at half 9, there must have been 8 159/158s sitting around.


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basset44

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Re: Fully booked to Cornwall

« Reply #34 on: November 19, 2009, 20:53:37 »

Hi All,

Interesting what you find out there when you google seems overcrowding as been aissue for a long tiime

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1332182/150-people-ordered-off-packed-train.html

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