307, 328, 331 and 352 were the four ex-Northern units bought for active travel and are at Landore for conversion, one or two of these are currently being worked on with the others stabled in the yard, l believe. Maybe someone got mixed up with the info they gave you.
No idea when they arrived but I know refurbishment is well underway and they've been at Landore for some months.
Is there any news on the routes they'll operate? Maybe as a luggage unit shuttling between to and from tenby or heart of Wales?
Just Heart of Wales I believe
Bit of a shame that, luggage space really is dire on the Pembroke dock branch in summer to tenby
Thank you. Sounds good. Similar to the Scot Rail 153s then. Do they plan on having more than four or only having four?
I'd presume it'll only be the four maybe a fifth if they're only for heart of Wales services.
Road transport does exist too remember. Not everything moves by rail.
Indeed but the explanation here is that they were at Landore many months ago now.
To be fair the ScotRail "Highland Explorer" / TfW "active travel" units don't add much in terms of luggage space, because you're not allowed to store luggage in the cycle spaces. It's not even clear if there's going to be an additional space saver toilet in the TfW examples, then again for the Heart of Wales that's probably not really needed, while it definitely is for the Pembroke Dock services.
A design has been agreed to enable a retention tank to the original toilets, rather than having to swap it to the other end like on the PRM sets.
That at least is a good improvement then. Though not much comfort for the other routes such as Pembroke Dock and Cambrian where many services will only have the one toilet.
