Arriva St Helens Paint Shop & Repair Centre

[mr t]

RE: Arriva St Helens Paint Shop & Repair Centre

(31/07/2016 19:55)507009 Wrote:  If memory serves, posts elsewhere suggest that the MAX specification has been abandoned completely. If Sapphire continues, and given its apparent success you'd expect it to, surely the 47 can't continue to be ignored when it's the perfect candidate?

The thing about the 47 is firstly its chronic reliability and punctuality due to the gridlock every day in Thornton Waterloo Crosby and Formby, its unpredictable most days, and Sapphire is meant to guarantee timings and reliability so its not suitable. Also it mirrors the train for most of the route so trying to inrease patronage by X amount simply wont happen as most people travelling longer distances will just use the train far more reliable.