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route:oxford

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Maybe make them Into a 4 carriage unit? to allow voyagers tol be doubled up to ease congestion?

Ok, so...

Would an Irish Mk3 coach have the structural integrity to accommodate an engine?

It's one way of strengthening 156s.
 
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What's happened to all the ex-Virgin Mk3s that were in service before the Pendos came along? The Mk3 is the finest rail vehicle by far that UK has ever had - comfortable, smooth riding, rigid, safe.

Why weren't they cascaded to other services (eg Liverpool - Norwich or x-country routes) with locos?
 

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Why weren't they cascaded to other services (eg Liverpool - Norwich or x-country routes) with locos?

Because a lot of them (more than one hundred certainly) were cascaded onto the GEML to replace the 86s+Mk2s that had been working on that line.
 

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And quite a few more have been converted to HST trailers or have been ear marked for future conversion.
 
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