158889 - Grammer Seating Or MTB?

[MG11]

According to East Midlands Trains's official Twitter feed, this unit has been through a refurbishment, to make it the same as the rest of East Midlands Trains's Class 158s. In this https://www.flickr.com/photos/80560...x7Y-9FZUvz-dH8znv-QTPrM7-ViJ7c4-B3aPZj-AqoUqj recent picture though, the livery seems to have been altered to EMT livery, but the seats look lower (MTB style) and the first class composite coach looks still to be in place. Has it been fitted with Grammer IC3000 seats or does it still have BR MTB seats? The "East Midlands" part of the branding seems to be black, sans blue as well.

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I caught this unit a couple of weeks ago and still had its SWT interior including first class area. All looked to have been retrimmed recently and the exterior was in the EMT version of the Stagecoach livery.

My assumption at the time was that it had taken its slot at Loughborough as part of the SWT 158 upgrade but had simply been painted in the EMT version rather than SWT or SWR now of course.

 

[MG11]

I caught this unit a couple of weeks ago and still had its SWT interior including first class area. All looked to have been retrimmed recently and the exterior was in the EMT version of the Stagecoach livery.

My assumption at the time was that it had taken its slot at Loughborough as part of the SWT 158 upgrade but had simply been painted in the EMT version rather than SWT or SWR now of course.

Interesting, thank you for confirming. It must be due to return to the SWML franchisee at some point then.

 

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Interesting, thank you for confirming. It must be due to return to the SWML franchisee at some point then.

Not according to the SW franchise spec. It was stated to have left permanently.