D7666 wrote:

Depots are better off ''out in the sticks'' as that is by far the best
place to berth and hence maintain anything that has any kind of London
flow. This is why what is now Chiltern built at Aylesbury, SWT at
Salisbury, LM at Northampton, WC at Manchester, and so on. Even the
bulk of C2C stabling is not East Ham but Shoeburyness.

Reading is just about OK for Thames Valley EMU but no closer. IEP need
to be Bristol and/or Cardiff/Swansea.

Wouldn't manpower costs be lower if you maintained the trains in London
between the peaks, instead of in the sticks overnight?

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