HamworthyGoods
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There are 68 perfectly usable trimode cars sat in Long Marston which would actually save a lot of gas oil by running AC Cardiff-Filton and DC Redbridge-Pompey. I believe the other 8 cars are receiving attention in Scotland - possibly because Scotland sometimes have a more enlightened to trains than the English do. Tho problem is the DfT prefer the operators to burn diesel because it gets them off the hook for not electrifying the network.
They are not perfectly usable. The cab environment left a lot to be desired for the staff that have to spend vast amounts of time sat in them each day.
Just because they were acceptable when introduced in the late 1980s doesn’t mean they are acceptable now - I have sympathy with ASLEF over this. I wouldn’t appreciate my desk chair being replaced with a basic stool for example.
That’s aside from the reliability issues that saw them being the first legacy fleet withdrawn by TfW.