'PEP' derived stock: unloved workhorses, missed when withdrawn

[Journeyman]

Best done at around 20 - 30 years generally. I think the PEP's have missed the boat on that one.

There's also about to be a surplus of Mark 3-based EMUs coming onto the market that have already been refurbished to a high standard, like the Class 321 Renatus and the SWT 455s. If anyone needs secondhand EMUs that meet modern standards, those do it already.

 

[py_megapixel]

There's also about to be a surplus of Mark 3-based EMUs coming onto the market that have already been refurbished to a high standard, like the Class 321 Renatus and the SWT 455s. If anyone needs secondhand EMUs that meet modern standards, those do it already.

As do the soon-to-be off-lease 350s

 

[Scotrail314209]

Perhaps a heavy refurb would have been possible, but there comes a point when life-expired really -is- life-expired! Keeping it all in intensive service and a total rebuild like you suggest would have been a false economy.

They could've done similar as to what Southern did with their 313s, which I believe were even more clapped out than the 314s.

PEPs have two settings for the heating system - "off" and "nuclear".

That's very true. The nuclear setting was nice on a Winters day... then the warm heat went away whenever we stopped at a station.

 

[yorksrob]

There's also about to be a surplus of Mark 3-based EMUs coming onto the market that have already been refurbished to a high standard, like the Class 321 Renatus and the SWT 455s. If anyone needs secondhand EMUs that meet modern standards, those do it already.

Yes, I'd have thought the Thameslinky type ones would be the first choice.