Turbostar phone home

 

From the passenger’s point of view the Turbostar is a great train, even if it is now past half-life. Unfortunately, reliability of CrossCountry’s ‘170s’ has left Tyseley bereft of Golden Spanners, sinking to 14,646 miles between failures last period (Moving Annual Average), only 20 times more reliable than a Class 769.

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