London Midland

[childwallblues]

RE: London Midland
319441 and 319457 were delivered to Kings Heath Depot, Northampton last weekend. They will enter service at the beginning of April.
319216 has received a C6 overhaul and will be the first to receive LM livery.

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: London Midland
Is there any chance of a Class 319 getting on a Liverpool?

[childwallblues]

RE: London Midland
No. As with the 321s that they are replacing neither Birmingham or Crewe crews will be trained on them. If you wish to see them in service the best place would be Watford Junction in peak hour.

[wirralbus]

RE: London Midland
To be honest in the great swing of things at LONDON MIDLAND I can not see them having this none standard fleet for too long .

London Midland seem to be having the Northern problem with these 319's as well , its as if the one's coming up from Thameslink have been there problematic units . We all know there will always be some lemons in any fleet.

[childwallblues]

RE: London Midland

(11/02/2016 12:07)wirralbus Wrote:  To be honest in the great swing of things at LONDON MIDLAND I can not see them having this none standard fleet for too long .

Why not. They had 321411-417 for long enough.

[wirralbus]

RE: London Midland
Yes but childwallblues wherever these 319's go for some reason there failing with alarming regularity now .

[childwallblues]

RE: London Midland
For operational reasons the 0755 London Midland service from Crewe to Euston was cancelled yesterday morning. The next service was at 0902 which I boarded and took as far as Tamworth LL. As this is the only service that stops down the Trent Valley during the day it was full and standing at Stafford and with many passengers boarding at both Rugeley TV and Lichfield TV passengers were standing down the aisles. When I alighted at Tamworth I estimate that at least 70-80 passengers were waiting to board. I do not know how many passengers were waiting at either Atherstone or Nuneaton but I would imagine that as Nuneaton is the busiest station on the route many passengers would have been left behind.

[knutstransport]

RE: London Midland

(17/02/2016 07:25)childwallblues Wrote:  For operational reasons the 0755 London Midland service from Crewe to Euston was cancelled yesterday morning. The next service was at 0902 which I boarded and took as far as Tamworth LL. As this is the only service that stops down the Trent Valley during the day it was full and standing at Stafford and with many passengers boarding at both Rugeley TV and Lichfield TV passengers were standing down the aisles. When I alighted at Tamworth I estimate that at least 70-80 passengers were waiting to board. I do not know how many passengers were waiting at either Atherstone or Nuneaton but I would imagine that as Nuneaton is the busiest station on the route many passengers would have been left behind.

It's not uncommon for that to happen on any route where a peak train is cancelled, the next one is unable to take 2 x service's worth of passengers without leaving people behind unless it's been strengthened.

[childwallblues]

RE: London Midland
New stations opened at Coventry Arena and Bermuda Park on the Coventry to Nuneaton line on 18 January.

[SK15 GZG (Moderator)]

RE: London Midland
It's been reported that 319455 is the seventh Class 319 to cascade to London Midland