Great Western Railway (train operating company): Difference between revisions

The {{BRC|158}} is a two- or three-coach DMU used on regional express services in the former Wessex Trains area. In February 2008, as part of its Remedial Plan Notice, First Great Western announced that it would form some hybrid three-car Class 158 units in March 2008, made possible by the transfer of five Class 150/2 units from Arriva Trains Wales.<ref name="COO statement">{{cite web |url= http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=95|title=Chief Operating Officer Statement |date=26 February 2008 |access-date= 26 March 2008 |publisher=First Great Western |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080301132805/http://firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=95 |archive-date=1 March 2008}}</ref> ThereThis areallowed for now ten hybrid units in operation and, combined with the non-hybrid three-car unit, thisit providesprovided eleven three-car units to operate services between Portsmouth and Cardiff, Great Malvern and Weymouth, alongside the two-car units. After the introduction of Class 150/1 trains from [[London Overground]] and London Midland, three of the remaining five two-coach Class 158s willwere be reformed to provide two further three-coach Class 158s.<ref name="Class 158 Reformations">{{cite web |url= http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Documents/Custom/Customer%20panel/2010/West%20Customer%20Panel%2019%20May%202010%20MINUTES%20for%20website.doc |title= Class 158 Reformations, Customer Panel Meeting Minutes |date= 19 May 2010 |access-date= 9 November 2010 |publisher= First Great Western |archive-date= 17 November 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101117101940/http://firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Documents/Custom/Customer%20panel/2010/West%20Customer%20Panel%2019%20May%202010%20MINUTES%20for%20website.doc |url-status= dead }}</ref> However, following their operations largely being taken over by [[British Rail Class 165|Class 165]] and {{brc|166}} units in the Bristol area, most of these units were reformed to restore them to 2 coach formation.