How old are the 379s now?
I came back from Liverpool Street on 379001 this afternoon and it's already looking pretty worn, but worse than that are the buttons.
Two in the (disabled) toilet, two on the outside to open the toilet doors and as I walked through the carriage, one button to open the internal doors and also some broken buttons on the external doors! Can't imagine the other carriages being much better.
I didn't want to go taking loads of photos on a fairly busy train, but here are the two in the toilet.
Where did Bombardier find these? It seems like a pretty bad design to me, as I can't remember ever seeing any buttons broken on any other train! The only good thing is that they still work if you press the little microswitch in the middle, but that's hardly ideal.
These trains really aren't going to manage 40 years are they!
I came back from Liverpool Street on 379001 this afternoon and it's already looking pretty worn, but worse than that are the buttons.
Two in the (disabled) toilet, two on the outside to open the toilet doors and as I walked through the carriage, one button to open the internal doors and also some broken buttons on the external doors! Can't imagine the other carriages being much better.
I didn't want to go taking loads of photos on a fairly busy train, but here are the two in the toilet.
Where did Bombardier find these? It seems like a pretty bad design to me, as I can't remember ever seeing any buttons broken on any other train! The only good thing is that they still work if you press the little microswitch in the middle, but that's hardly ideal.
These trains really aren't going to manage 40 years are they!