I’m not sure what the ‘general feel’ is about it but personally, I don’t think they should be working the holyheads again.
I pretty much only ever use them Shrewsbury - Cardiff and back so there’s no bias here (unless they want to get the 67’s fitted with ERTMS
).
It seemed well known at the time that 1st class was not well used and they ran at a fair loss, where’s the Manchester's were making a profit. How true that really is, I don’t know.
But there are also issues with the 67’s stopping at the request stops on the island it seems.
So if putting them on holyheads means certain services dropping those stops then I don’t see the point as there is already Avanti who operate a fast service.
I think it would be better if something could be done with a 6th diagram to get more of the current services running through to Swansea.