The Intercity Express Project has hardly gone well. GWR's Class 800s and 802s (known as Intercity Express Trains), in particular, have failed to meet expectations, and things are only getting worse. So, beset with poor reliability, comfort and allocation, is it possible to save these trains?
Discord: https://discord.gg/7E2YHzsRgy
Sources (or lack thereof!):
[1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-gives-green-light-for-more-state-of-the-art-intercity-trains
[2]: https://www.compinfainsa.com/railway/seats/?lang=en
[3]:Amazingly, I cannot find any source for this (and no cost) bar a Wikipedia caption. It definitely did happen, though, as displayed in the photographic evidence in the video. If anyone can find any definitive documents detailing this, I'd love to see them.
Photography/Imagery:
ImagesUnite and Jollyroger, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
TheTransportHub, Bananaman28, Florian Pépellin, Vanmanyo, Slenderman7676 and Ural-66, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walk Ride Bath
Deutsche Bahn AG / neomind
GWR
Bacon roll offer, Torquay by Derek Harper, Elsie esq., Hitachi's Rail Vehicle Manufacturing Facility, Newton Aycliffe by Thomas Nugent and The Basingstoker, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
TheFrog001, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
GWR
Hitachi Rail Europe - Creative Commons
Carl Watson? (Class 442, unsure of origin)
Music:
Drop the Tapes - TrackTribe
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