The driving cars are flat floored. All intermediate vehicles, whether they have a diesel engine underneath them or not, have a common body shell with the raised floor section
That's what I was thinking of, Thanks!
All in all though, I wonder how fun these ramps will make pushing a catering trolley through the train. They wont be that steep considering it's a 26m vehicle, but those catering trolleys can be heavy.
Of course the least best seats to use in the 800s will remain as the ones by the vestibule doors, underneath the air conditioning unit, by the start of the ramp with no windows and arm rests due to the additional interior space required for the door pockets. It's not that I don't understand Hitachi's design at the time not to use the more conventional (In Europe at least) plug door design, it's that they slide into the passenger saloon than the ends of the vehicles. But it's a problem that's sadly too late to be altered and something we'll have to live with.
Do we know if any of the timing data - or even realtime trains links are available to view - I'm thinking Performance wise of the 800 up the Devon banks, seeing as there were a few concerns about how they'll cope up Dainton & Hemerdon banks.
