Great Britain XVIII: 18/4 -25/4/26

Maybe I've missed something up thread stating that RYTC are advertising a passenger cap, but otherwise I would imagine both RYTC and WCRC will gladly put on more coaches if the advanced bookings are so numerous. Otherwise, as Ralph mentions, why cart around a coach that is only seating the tumbleweed?

One caveat to the above could be network capacity. Network Rail can always turn around and say that because X route/loop/station can only facilitate X coaches plus POB and locomotive/s, that the length of train is thus dictated to WCRC.

 

Another reason for enthusiasts to avoid WCR's trips is their continued refusal to come into line with the other TOCs on door locking, forcing them to use aircon MkIIs. That could be an issue for everyone else as well if the aircon is unreliable.

 

I bumped into a day trip passenger this year (3 days for him altogether) at first light in Inverness

 

Remember the GB is not like a day tour where you can add extra coaches. It will come with the need for extra hotel rooms, which may or not be available once you have sold the initial capacity. Those hotel rooms, if you find them, are then possibly well removed from where the rest are staying leading to extra costs for ground arrangements etc. If they are diners that may well exceed the production capacity of the kitchen, so does that led to an extra kitchen car, chef etc. Maybe you even need more stewards (or reps if you want to call them that) to be with these guests at remote locations.
What do you do when all these extras increase your prices, do RTC just swallow that or do you try and charge extra for those booking later? I can hear the howls of outrage already if that was proposed.
Not sure the likes of TUI say we could sell extra seats to Malaga suddenly so we had better put on a B787 that day.
The only way I could see extra stock being of use if you decide to try to sell one day trips, but most of these would be one way, due to the nature of the GB, so again comes with its own set of problems.

 

Don't say that, you can't say negative things about WCR like that on here else the hounds will be after you.

WCR Mark 1's are not tired and it very easy to get a Mark 1 looking very nice indeed as has been proven by a particular heritage railway recently. I am not sure I would call Mark 2's 'better quality' compared to Mark 1's.

I know, but the way it was worded up thread suggested that the train had been reduced from 11 to 9 coaches that was the limit regardless.

 

I am simply talking about how it was worded, I was not implying that there was a limit or that I believed there to be one. The way it was worded suggested that 9 was a hard limit.