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43159 now has HST 50 plates like 43025/048/060; they were fitted at UKRL during its repaint.
I see. By the way, I looked at the recent photo files, but the restoration stopped. Does it take some time?
The restoration has not stopped, indeed it is very much in progress.
Very much this. Whilst a lot of people have simply seen 044 sat outside at Ruddington and Cockshute Yard, Stoke for a number of years, the internals are where the work has been taking place, particularly in having a flywheel made up to couple the Valenta engine and alternator up. This, like much of our HST restoration work is costly, but things are happening in the background all the time across the three groups, be it 125 Group at Bury, 125 Preservation at The Nene and Eastleigh and 125 Heritage at the Colne Valley.
Understood. Also, is vehicle 43190 intended for parts recovery?
It's good enough that people can understand and answer your questions! Does it also work well for English to Korean?
Not going to happen on any 125 Group power car - you can’t go backwards in compliance.
What is it that makes the old units non compliant exactly? Could they not put modern LEDs in the older style fittings?
Everything is normal.
Why would you? There are sound engineering reasons (reduced water ingress, less damage from objects) for the new style clusters, even before you get to the issue of cost. Are the people who want this prepared to pay for it…
Group standards have changed for mainline running, requiring the lights to be brighter and clearer. Plus the advances in technology makes 3 head/tail lights redundant with combined head/tail LEDs now largely used everywhere.
There is a status summary of all HST power cars in this month‘s Railway Magazine and 43190 is listed as a ‘spares doner’.
Very much so. It is engineless but sat on a reasonable pair of bogies with their TMs. As spares become harder to get hold of, it made sense (and was a generous donation from Romic).
There's a status summary of the 125 Group fleet in every issue of its magazine. By far the best way to know what is going on is to join!
That showed foresight given how far in advance of preserving they must have obtained them. I did look on the website but couldn’t find that information.
