159jim
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Does anyone know if any still have this kind of refurbishment?
Thanks.
Thanks.
No, thankfully. It must have been a contender for one of the worst ever interiors. The seats were so low that you were pretty much unable to see out the windows.
Not helped by the condition the Wessex Units got into internally either. Colourfully grim is probably the best description I could think of.
The ATW ones have seats in removed from 158s. They were raised by a couple of inches to improve the view... I don't think they are too bad really. I would be keen to remove the small cabs and pair them up though!
They're Chapman seats which are found in much of the 153 fleet. The seats that are the problem are the ones which were previously fitted to ATW 153s, and also to Wessex 153s. They were the original 158 seats which Wales and West installed when they refurbished the 153s.
Not helped by the condition the Wessex Units got into internally either. Colourfully grim is probably the best description I could think of.
Cheers for letting me know.
To be honest on the 158s that no logner have the BR 'sofas' I prefer chapman seating to the Richmond seating found on the FGW 158's refurbished from Wessex Trains, (and I beleive some Irish stock?!).
Does anyone know if any of FGW's 'sofa' (Ex-tpe 158's) had their seats replaced by Richmonds?
What happened to the pink 'Electrostar' seats that were found on units like 158748?
Thanks,
Jim.
158762 and 158767 had the original 158 seats replaced by Richmond seats. I believe there was a small shortfall of original 158 seats when the refurbishment was carried out due to changes in the seating layout from the original TPE sets, in particular the removal of the low density First Class area. All the Wessex units were given Richmond seats. I guess it was to give a degree of uniformity. It was only 158745 and 158746 that had Chapman seats, and the ex-Virgin units 158747, 748, 749 and 751 had the Electrostar seats. All the ex-Wessex units had a fairly low density layout too so again there might not have been enough of the types of seats fitted for the new layout, so they had to replaced.Cheers for letting me know.
To be honest on the 158s that no logner have the BR 'sofas' I prefer chapman seating to the Richmond seating found on the FGW 158's refurbished from Wessex Trains, (and I beleive some Irish stock?!).
Does anyone know if any of FGW's 'sofa' (Ex-tpe 158's) had their seats replaced by Richmonds?
What happened to the pink 'Electrostar' seats that were found on units like 158748?
Thanks,
Jim.