Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Once they had been introduced, the 159 units were not refurbished by NSE, so I assume you mean the original NSE interior.
The answer to which being not much different from now, except the seats were covered in blue instead of red. In first class, the seats were covered in red and grey instead of blue - the actual seats were changed in the second SWT refurbishment a few years back though.
We are aware of an issue with emails from the Forum to Microsoft-based email accounts (hotmail/outlook/live.com email addresses). This is being looked into currently, thanks for your patience meanwhile.