*sniggers* Pacer on HST service

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*sniggers* Pacer on HST service

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FGW are going to get lynched :lol:
Fishcakegen wrote:Pacer vice HST

142067 + 142028 are working the 0738 Paignton to Paddington as far as Bristol TM where they will swap for 43027 + LA79 + 43145 which will run ECS from Laira to Bristol due to being extremely late off Laira
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Whatever the issues. FGW got all the passengers where they needed to be, at the time they were supposed to be there. And they didn't use bus replacements.

If I was travelling on it I'd have been reasonably pleased with the outcome.
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Ok it wasn't a HST, but i remember the days when railways always substituted other stock when things went wrong. Thats why there was always spare stock parked up around the network.
I am actually surprised that FGW managed to find spare stock, but i imagine the truth is some other poor sods lost the train they were supposed to be getting. I agree with Hattie, the outcome for the people on the pacer was a lot better than the usual FGW outcome, one of their buses!
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