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« Reply #151 on: July 26, 2011, 15:55:04 » |
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Travelled on two revamped units not sure of numbers I gave up spotting years ago.
On the Taplow Padd the scroll dropped stations as we passed them and the next stop announcements when you could hear them seemed OK.
On the Slough Taplow it was still scrolling all stations from Ealing Broadway.
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« Reply #152 on: July 27, 2011, 15:31:07 » |
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I only travel occasionally on the Cotswold Line but more often than not the PIS▸ is giving incorrect information. The last two occasions that I have taken the 2-car evening stopper from Oxford towards Worcestershire it has been displaying that the train's destination is Banbury which can be very worrying to strangers getting on. On other occasions travelling N/W it has shown the destination as Oxford and only on a minority of occasions does it seem to be working correctly.
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« Reply #153 on: July 27, 2011, 19:41:36 » |
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I've travelled on both FGW▸ and Chiltern Turbos recently. The difference is appalling.
What are FGW playing at? For goodness sake:
*Seal the windows
*Install A/C that works
*Install a PIS▸ system that works
*Clean the trains
It can't be that difficult - Chiltern's units have been a pleasure to travel on for years!
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« Reply #154 on: July 27, 2011, 19:43:15 » |
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Hmm. A PIS▸ system. Are you taking the P*SS?
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« Reply #155 on: July 27, 2011, 19:44:14 » |
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Hmm. A PIS▸ system. Are you taking the P*SS?
 Although when FGW▸ uses customers instead of passengers, they are! |
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« Reply #156 on: July 27, 2011, 19:53:31 » |
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*Clean the trains Before the refresh the FGW▸ 165/6's were disgusting don't think there had been a deep clean for years the detritus in the spaces under the seat was appalling, it saddens me to say that some of the early refresh units are starting to go the same way |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #157 on: July 27, 2011, 23:25:04 » |
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I've travelled on both FGW▸ and Chiltern Turbos recently. The difference is appalling.
What are FGW playing at? For goodness sake:
*Seal the windows
*Install A/C that works
*Install a PIS▸ system that works
*Clean the trains
It can't be that difficult - Chiltern's units have been a pleasure to travel on for years!
Are you providing FGW with the cash? Worth remembering that they give up the franchise in 2 years... |
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« Reply #158 on: July 27, 2011, 23:27:51 » |
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Chiltern managed it. I'm sure First Group can spare the money.
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« Reply #159 on: July 27, 2011, 23:29:30 » |
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Chiltern managed it. I'm sure First Group can spare the money.
Chiltern have a long franchise. If you were running a business and you were shortly to lose a huge part of it to another company, you wouldn't go spending vast amounts of money investing in infrastructure. It's simple economics really... |
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« Reply #160 on: July 27, 2011, 23:31:06 » |
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It's been years since FGW▸ won the franchise, they've had ages. Chiltern did it ages ago, along with the entire rest of their fleet.
Why did FGW do the refresh on the HSTs▸ then? If they were about to "hand back the keys" in a few years?
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« Reply #161 on: July 28, 2011, 01:26:28 » |
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Chiltern managed it. I'm sure First Group can spare the money.
Chiltern have a long franchise. If you were running a business and you were shortly to lose a huge part of it to another company, you wouldn't go spending vast amounts of money investing in infrastructure. It's simple economics really... You do if you want to please Phil Hammond and want a crack at the next bid.... |
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« Reply #162 on: July 28, 2011, 11:13:32 » |
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Chiltern only recently (within 12 months) finishhed their 165 refresh....
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« Reply #163 on: July 28, 2011, 11:18:30 » |
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I've travelled on both FGW▸ and Chiltern Turbos recently. The difference is appalling.
What are FGW playing at? For goodness sake:
*Seal the windows
*Install A/C that works
*Install a PIS▸ system that works
*Clean the trains
It can't be that difficult - Chiltern's units have been a pleasure to travel on for years!
You're kidding, aren't you? Chiltern's PIS system is hopelessly unreliable. The number of times I've spent the journey being told I'm now at London Marylebone! The seem to have given up with it, wheraes at least the FGW system is receiving much attention and many software updates. |
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #164 on: July 28, 2011, 11:26:34 » |
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Indeed, and people are complaining about the aircon being too cold regularly, and one set makes a racket, which has been reported, but not yet fixed.
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