London Midland Trains

[Bob]

4 car 8am to brum was CANCELLED this morning the next train was an unable to cope 2 car... glad I caught the 7.24. Pretty bad tho. Lots of peak time outbound cancellations recently. Poor show

[Tony]

4 car 8am to brum was CANCELLED this morning the next train was an unable to cope 2 car... glad I caught the 7.24. Pretty bad tho. Lots of peak time outbound cancellations recently. Poor show

Yes. All caused by the Nationalised part of the Railway Industry, none of it London Midland's fault

[Bob]

The fact they run 2 car trains at peak times is. The 16.42 ou of brum in particular is a joke. They have run 3 cars on there previously so it can be done and even then it's just about able to cope

[Bob]

Your not a fan of public ownership at all are you Tony lol

[Tony]

The fact they run 2 car trains at peak times is. The 16.42 ou of brum in particular is a joke. They have run 3 cars on there previously so it can be done and even then it's just about able to cope

London Midland diagram 7 of their 8 3-car 170s every day, when all 8 are available then the diagram that does the 16:42 gets the 8th, but you cannot expect 100% availability every day.

It's not that I am not a fan of Nationalisation, I don't care who runs anything as long as they do the best job possible, what I don't like is the wrong people getting blamed for anything that goes wrong or just blaming privatisation. The problem this morning was a siganalling failure at Wolverhampton, and as the 4 car morning train got stuck in the middle of that London Midland could hardly be blamed for it not getting to Rugeley to do its next trip

[MW]

London Midland diagram 7 of their 8 3-car 170s every day, when all 8 are available then the diagram that does the 16:42 gets the 8th, but you cannot expect 100% availability every day.

It's not that I am not a fan of Nationalisation, I don't care who runs anything as long as they do the best job possible, what I don't like is the wrong people getting blamed for anything that goes wrong or just blaming privatisation. The problem this morning was a siganalling failure at Wolverhampton, and as the 4 car morning train got stuck in the middle of that London Midland could hardly be blamed for it not getting to Rugeley to do its next trip

Private ownership is better in every single industry to get the best job possible. Plus it's fair. Paying for stuff you actually use and all. Let's not get political though, lol.

[Bob]

Not always...privatisation in buses was supposed to have brought in competition etc but has led in a lot of areas to private monopoly...look at cannock! More choice of operators pre privatisation! Lol

[monkeyjoe]

Govia it is then, what other benefits apart from wifi then?

[BK63 YWP]

Abellio has the franchise now @monkeyjoe

[monkeyjoe]

Opps your right the current ones have lost it yep that's what I meant lol

[mikestone]

On several occasions recently journey check has been showingone diagram on Bedford Bletchley trains 2 vice 1 - are they running up the mileages on the 150s before they go?

[Tony]

On several occasions recently journey check has been showingone diagram on Bedford Bletchley trains 2 vice 1 - are they running up the mileages on the 150s before they go?

probably while the 153s get their internal refresh

[DJ]

One of the Walsall - Wolves stoppers was cancelled after reaching Birmingham New Street today, right after the WBA match too, so there was a lot of people waiting and I presume the next one along was rammed.

[Tony]

One of the Walsall - Wolves stoppers was cancelled after reaching Birmingham New Street today, right after the WBA match too, so there was a lot of people waiting and I presume the next one along was rammed.

Similar; 17:42 to Rugeley cancelled; 1812 rammed with football fans

[Bob]

19.01 from Cannock cancelled due to "train crew unavailable " WTF....a joke