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« Reply #135 on: January 04, 2013, 12:28:18 »
Quote from: grahame on January 04, 2013, 12:21:49
Quote from: Andy W on January 04, 2013, 10:51:19
"From September 2012, the 06:30 service from Banbury to London Paddington has started from Oxford not Banbury, leaving Oxford at 07:00. It is now operated by a refreshed Class 180 train which provides an increased standard class seating capacity."

There probably is a greater seating capacity from Oxford ... simply because the train starts empty from there, rather than having a proportion of the seats already occupied by through passengers from Banbury.   Even the same old train would have offered more seats from Oxford if it had been altered to start from there, rather than coming through part-loaded from further north!

That's the sort of clever and technically correct (but very misleading) statement that Chiltern would issue, as nobody (sensibly) would be travelling through from Banbury to Paddington on that train (or indeed Oxford), and the crowding occurs much later in the journey than at Oxford.
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« Reply #136 on: January 21, 2013, 22:03:18 »
I've got the 19.18 Paddington to Maidenhead a few times now... Only once was it a class 180.. Are there any official statistics on this?
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« Reply #137 on: January 21, 2013, 22:17:28 »
Quote from: johoare on January 21, 2013, 22:03:18
I've got the 19.18 Paddington to Maidenhead a few times now... Only once was it a class 180.. Are there any official statistics on this?

No official statistics, though my unofficial ones suggest it's been a Class 180 on five out of the last eleven weekdays.
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« Reply #138 on: January 21, 2013, 22:46:55 »
Oh dear.. not a good (albeit unofficial) statistic then.. Less than 50%. If they are going to increase capacity it would be good if it actually happened.. I'm pretty sure the 8.34am Maidenhead to Paddington isn't always a class 180 either (any unofficial stats on that?)
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« Reply #139 on: January 21, 2013, 22:54:09 »
Less sure about that one, but I think it's 6 out of 11.  Undecided
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« Reply #140 on: March 07, 2013, 22:36:40 »
I think this question is relevant here.. The 7.49 Maidenhead stopper to Paddington was 5 carriages before the extra capacity and was the same after (see earlier post in this thread)...

However the last two or three weeks it's been three carriages only each time I've seen it..

Does anyone know why? And is it permanent?
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« Reply #141 on: March 08, 2013, 10:27:46 »
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Does anyone know why? And is it permanent?

Not sure why?  It was a 5-car today and is still diagrammed as such.  Perhaps that's the diagram that gets sacrificed first whenever there's a 180/150/HST▸ (High Speed Train)/Turbo shortage elsewhere? 
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« Reply #142 on: March 08, 2013, 18:40:54 »
Thanks for that... Did you actually see it? Otherwise it could just be mis-information I guess? I didn't see it today so I don't know..
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« Reply #143 on: March 08, 2013, 23:47:50 »
Didn't actually see it.  I was still very much tucked up in bed!  Just going on the unit allocations on our internal systems, so I'm pretty sure it was a 5-car today.
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