First photo: NI Railways C4K at CAF factory

[jamesontheroad]

Glimpsed in Saturday's Belfast Telegraph. Click through for photograph. In the same way that the Capitalstar features an evolution of previous Electrostar/Turbostar light clusters, it looks like the C4K's will have slight scallop shade added to their clusters, which are rectangular on the C4K.

Northern Ireland's new trains right on track
By Linda Stewart
Saturday, 14 August 2010

Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/northern-irelands-new-trains-right-on-track-14910908.html

It’s strangely flesh-coloured and doesn’t yet look like the cross-country speedster it will eventually become, but this is the bodyshell of the first of 20 state-of-the-art new trains being built for Translink.

It mightn’t look like much now... but this is the future of our rail network

The ‘proto-train’ is the first of a £105m order for the Class 4000 trains which are being manufactured by Construcciones y Auxillar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) in Zaragoza, Spain.

The finished bodyshells will next move on to the assembly line for interiors and equipment to be fitted, following by factory testing, and the first train could be in commercial use as soon as next summer.

...continues

 

[MCR247]

The capitalstar clusters aren't an evolution of turbo/electro clusters though, this is

 

[Pumbaa]

Thanks for the link, they look like fine units. I still need to visit them...!

 

[4SRKT]

Thanks for the link, they look like fine units. I still need to visit them...!

Visit soon before these new trains arrive and the last first generation traction in regular use gets replaced on the Larne and Portrush lines

 

[jamesontheroad]

The capitalstar clusters aren't an evolution of turbo/electro clusters though, this is

Ag, yes technically that's true. But it's nice to see a subtle evolution to the design; will no doubt please photographers who want to distinguish them as they approach