What were the Virgin Trains Class 158s like?

[edwin_m]

a pay phone which took phone-cards and really gobbled up your units if you tried to use it.

All the 158s had these, in the vestibule near the gangway between the cars where the train was at its noisiest.

 

[Bevan Price]

The daily Liverpool-Edinburgh was a two-car 158 in the early days of VT.

Express livery but without Express branding.

The interior had red-ish pink seats (otherwise original seat type and layout), a small 2+1 First Class, an onboard trolley service, and a pay phone which took phone-cards and really gobbled up your units if you tried to use it.

Diagrams included Edinburgh - Liverpool, then Liverpool - Portsmouth southbound, Portsmouth-Liverpool the Liverpool - Edinburgh northbound - 2 coach 158, until replaced by Voyagers which could be either a 220 or 221.

 

[Masbroughlad]

There was a Doncaster to Birmingham mid-morning, Sunday service.

 

[Bletchleyite]

The daily Liverpool-Edinburgh was a two-car 158 in the early days of VT

It was a very curious portion working setup. The Manchester ran from Manchester Airport coupled to a Regional Railways 156 bound for Barrow/Windermere (forget which) splitting at Bolton with the 156 going via Westhoughton and Wigan, the 158 then joined with the Liverpool portion at Preston to head to Scotland. I forget now if both bits went to Edinburgh or it was a Glasgow split.