buffy500 wrote:Coxster wrote:thomascairns wrote:You actually rarely see 444s, they run on the Portsmouth Direct, and with there being 120 450s, with 17 more to come, 444s could effectively be completely OOU for a day.
Half of all trains at my local station are 9 times out of 10 444s.
I thought the original plan was that the 442's would stay on the Weymouth, and the 444's would take over from the MKI's on the Portsmouth.
But I've been on more 444's than 442's on the Weymouth line in the last year.
Well that is what has been implemented; the 442s still run the majority of services to Poole/Weymouth, very rarely is it a 444 service, and this is usually at weekends or with engineering if they are running down that way. 444s now run the Waterloo - Soton and P/Mouth trains, which were of course all in the hands of slammers before.
Slammers did used to run as headcode 92 all the way to Weymouth, but then, 442s ran down the Portsmouth Direct as well as the LSWR, so they were more spread out, but now the only route they operate is the LSWR to Weymouth, so stock availability is adequate.
You must've picked the wrong days to travel then Dave because everytime I've been down there, it has been 442 all the way.
Rich
