bramling
Veteran Member
They didn't look old inside though as they had a major refurbishment done between 2005 and 2008
The refurbishment wasn’t *that* extensive, indeed is was scaled down from what was originally planned - mainly due to it being much later than originally planned so the stock’s life was correspondingly reduced, so making more extensive work harder to justify. The work done to the prototype trailer was more extensive.
An example of the cosmetic nature was the door chimes simply going through the PA system, so didn’t sound if an announcement was being made!
It wasn’t a bad job for what it was, but a reasonably keen eye could readily spot that the trains were rather old.