Schnellzug
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The 'Hampshire Locals' refers to a fairly significant number of peak extra services that run solely in the DC area, I listed them in a post a while back, but search can't find it. :cry: Stuff like this, which may not be exactly up to date, this is from 2009:
If they were all replaced by EMUs a reasonable number of DMUs, about half a dozen maybe, would become available for use elsewhere, but that doesn't seem to be the plan at all.
i suppose some of those, though, would be positioning workings so they might still have to run ECS even so.
On that theme, 159s used to run a very roundabout Reading-Brighton service via Eastleigh, didn't they. And Turbostars as well.