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The latest edition of Today's Railways UK contains a very good piece of the IOW Class 483 and some good reading, however I think the idea of just 5 Class...
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World's apart from GWR's rapid introduction of their 36 802s.... First one into passenger traffic August 2018. Last one by April this year I believe. 8 months then and 14 of them are 9 car...
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I still think it was silly not to replace the Class 150/156 units with more 195s particularly as they are only a few years younger than the pacers and 30+ years old already. Even 158s are well over 25 years old now.
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