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Future use for LO 172s

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Locos and DVTs take up valuable platform space for little reward compared to a DMU.
 
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ml said:
At one point chiltern seemed to want rid of all turbostars in favour of locos not the case anymore?
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Don't think so. Chiltern have never mentioned LHCS as a replacement for anything, just a way of achieving extra capacity in a period when there are no spare DMUs at all.

It seems to me far more likely that if there was a windfall of compatible DMUs the Chiltern LHCS would go back in its box...
 
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swt_passenger said:
Don't think so. Chiltern have never mentioned LHCS as a replacement for anything, just a way of achieving extra capacity in a period when there are no spare DMUs at all.

It seems to me far more likely that if there was a windfall of compatible DMUs the Chiltern LHCS would go back in its box...
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Quite. If there had been an equal number of available 170s as there were locos and Mk3s Chiltern would have taken the 170s. However there weren't a load of extra compatible DMUs available so they took what they could get.
 
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