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It is great to finally see them in the Midlands

Thanks Desiro360

Thank you, they are good units.

Thank you, so hopefully Northern may get more WMR 323,s once the 730,s are on the cross city line. We already have 323220 and 218 relocated to longsight train depot. I saw 323220 at Piccadilly running an Alderley Edge service .It was still in it's Wmr livery.

Thanks Reuben, it does make the journey interesting

I have heard April as a rumoured month that they starting on the Cross City Line.

@@Sim0nTrains around April/may yea

Thanks Johnny.

Good luck getting a seat 350 much better train

Thank you, I didn't hear about the cab door fault at Smethwick Rolfe Street

The space is quite good on these trains, the narrow seats is a compromise for more standing space but they are great unis

No worries, think there be 2 units out next week as they going to add a unit each week.

@@Sim0nTrains Ok cheers 👍🏻

Thank you, it's great they have finally entered service in the West Midlands.

Thanks Arnold

Thank you and no worries lovefive5733

Thank you

They putting a different unit on each day, guess it was a unlucky one

Sadly I had less time but still managed to do a piece of camera during a quick turn around.

350/2s are good for suburban traffic and popular with families as well with their 3+2 seating. But don't know why there less seats on the new trains, could had been a compromise in the design or they want to keep it a suburban train without the feel of being a suburban train

Thank you, they are good units

Thank you, I personally think it wasn't in purpose, they possibly think that the carriage was empty in the middle and started to board the train. I know they ran great on the Bletchley to London Service but new units will have teething troubles

Was great to catch up with you again Tico!

Thank you

@@Sim0nTrains can't wait for it to run on ccl!!!

Tico always brings the Chaos lol It was quickly fixed the door fault but did hear also at Smethwick Rolfe Street that there was problems with the driver cab as well.

They are ineed!

That one advantage with the new trains as there more capacity to take people to Witton to watch Aston Villa but totally agree that those lines are for metro-types or suburban lines, like with the XCity, people will use it at New Street just to go to University, that isn't a long journey but sadly there not many Wolverhampton to Coventry services like they used to be.

Thank you

It will be out on the same diagrams all this week

@@Sim0nTrainsso it’s on all this week and is it gonna be running again for next week as well

What was it like sleeping at Birmingham New Street?

@@Sim0nTrains That night it was quite quiet. All the vending machines were on, So i was not without hot drink and a snack.

No, they built by Bombardier Transportation and Alstom, most new trains will have teething troubles

The points raised in this comment I cannot disagree with and they are valid points. The only thing I can think off it down to Money which is why trains are being introduced with less seating capacity. Now the 5 vice 8, I dd spoke to someone at West Midlands Railway when riding the Class 196 on their very first day in service and they did say that a 5 coach Class 730 EMU and fit a 8 coach Class 350 Desiro but looking at the reduce seating on the WMR Class 730s, I don't think that is true, be interesting when they do enter service. The 6 vice 8 when the 3 coach Class 730s on the London services is only a stop gap so they could get rid of the Class 319s but think that will be going back to 8 coaches eventually. The Stafford services I thought the Crewe to Birmingham service via Tame Bridge Parkway was a bad idea to cut the service back to Stafford but that service does have one advantage and if there is disruption in the Wolverhampton area for example, you can rely on that train to get you to Crewe (That's from personal experience from a month ago) But that was also cut back to allow the 2nd Liverpool Lime Street service to run during morning and evening peak in the weekdays and all day off peak on Saturdays.

2+4? The Class 350/1s are 2+2 seating and they are still in service, it's only the Class 350/2s which have 3+2 seating but they shall be withdrawn soon