Re: 150s to Gatwick?


Are these for the half-hourly Gatwick service that doesnt actually go to
Gatwick?


Just on the point of why 150s on Reading Gatwicks and nother other
diagrams, is it not true that all train between Reading and Paddington
have to be ATP fitted ?

If 150s are only a stop gap borrowed from elsewhere before some 158s
arrive (I am only reading what is in this thread and using it, I do not
know the story here) then surely these will not have ATP already, and
fitting them for a short period won't be justifiable.

Reading Gatwick is the one f-GW-Thames-Turbo-Link - or whatever they
are during this phase of the moon - line that they can cover diagrams
without the need for ATP (because I assume ECS moves to/from all the
other branches need ATP even if not for the lines themselves).

TOC media spin will make this into ''more suitable for Gatwick''
without the real reason rather than admit to them not having ATP which
some paranoid Thames valley NIMBY could mis-interpret as ''running
less safe trains''.

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Nick

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