Doctor Fegg
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Yes, you did read that right. Posted on a cycling forum:
There's presumably some sort of Chinese whispers going on here as it clearly won't be all the 373s. But it's been suggested here beforehand that some of them will be surplus to requirements when the 374 fleet is complete. And then there's the old chestnut of the North of London sets, mentioned here last year:
A friend of mine has a business refurbishing trains* and he will be taking the existing Eurostar rolling stock on a steady basis from about the Spring of next year - refurbishing/modifying and then they are going to another train operator - the new Eurostar stuff will be phased in over, I think, about 8 or 9 months)
* he's currently rebuilding ex London tube carriages to be re-used by one of the rail companies in the N of England.
There's presumably some sort of Chinese whispers going on here as it clearly won't be all the 373s. But it's been suggested here beforehand that some of them will be surplus to requirements when the 374 fleet is complete. And then there's the old chestnut of the North of London sets, mentioned here last year:
33Hz said:Word from an SNCF contact is that the three spare 32xx are already scrapped but the 33xx NoL sets are going to be repatriated to the UK after some modifications.