Transport for Wales Rail

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RE: Transport for Wales Rail

(02/11/2018 06:59)iMarkeh Wrote:  The all singing, all dancing TFW has more issues than Northern by the looks of things. All Chester - Manchester services tomorrow will terminate at Oxford Road (reducing the number of trains by 1), Llandudno - Blaenau Ffestiniog is not running (Llew Jones running rail reps). Wrexham - Bidston is down to 1 train as well with Pats Coaches supplying rail reps for services not running. Also it looks like 1 full train duty is off in South Wales.

I thought this new franchise was going to be amazing and faultless. At least ATW could run a flipping train service lol. I get trains need repairing etc but like I say, ATW coped well for a long time, 4 train duties is a lot to drop. There must be spares somewhere. ATW would have loaned off Northern. Given the Northern strikes, there will probably be loads of trains over there.

Improvements to rail franchises don't happen overnight. They take time to implement and new trains can take a long time to build. Northern's were ordered nearly two years ago and it's only now they're starting to arrive

Don't forget TfW Rail need to send units for PRM modifications and a 142 has been withdrawn earlier than planned due to a serious fault

Right now there aren't any spare DMUs anywhere. If there were then ATW/TfW Rail would have leased them