GWR Electrostars

[F Great Eastern]

Couldn't find a thread on this so posting a new one.

I have been on them three times since the end of last week and every single one of them, have suffered from a kind of incessant rattle at the front of the carriage, on some of them worse than others, but on the one I took this morning I was in the second coach right at the front and there was a rattle from two different places! How can they be rattling already?

Generally can't say I'm a huge fan of these, why they are better than what they replaced and look beautiful in the livery and beautiful inside as well in comparison to what they replaced, I found the seat texture horrible (why not just flat fabric?) power sockets not working on two of the three trains I was on as well.

They're a good train, but certainly nothing special and the build quality seems usual Bombardier hit and miss.

 

[D365]

There's definitely a thread for Class 387 discussion...

 

[F Great Eastern]

Indeed but a quick look at that thread seemed to be full of all other 387s but not GWR, I assumed that it wasn't a thread for these ones, but I didn't look through every page.

Since this discussion related to GWR 387s rather than 387s as a whole, I assumed it would be best to keep it separate.

 

[D365]

Don't know which one you were looking at but the discussion here has been predominantly about the GWR Class 387/1s, seeing as the Gatwick and c2c units have settled in, and the Great Northern fleet has a separate discussion.