Re: To what lengths will you go to avoid poor quality rolling stock?



On 2 May, 09:31, "A.C.P.Crawshaw" <iss...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
According to Passenger Focus's Autumn 2007 survey on "the comfort of
the seating area":
FGW 64%; GNER 73%; MML 78%; VXC 78%; VWC 77%.

What's your explanation for the Pendos and Voyagers being the most
popular stock, then?

It's not possible draw that conclusion from those statistics, as FGW, GNER and MML
operate a mixture of stock.

The FGW statistic is meaningless in the context, you're right. The
GNER statistic isn't: its trains were internally identical except for
a couple of unrefurbed HSTs, which wouldn't be capable on their own of
materially swaying the totals either way.

For MML, the fleet is split evenly between 222s and more-or-less
unrefurbed HSTs. If we assume that the 222s are at least as popular as
the 220s/221s, which would be a sensible assumption to make, then its
HSTs are no more popular than the Virgin fleet.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org
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