Was looking back through some railway magazines from earlier this year, and I see that the two Pendolino carriages from 390 033 which had been at the fire service training place at Moreton in Marsh for a number of years were taken to Newport for scrapping in January. Slightly surprising really – I know they replace with newer cast-off railway stock periodically, but they aren’t going to be able to obtain anything newer than those!
That means that only three vehicles now survive from the set of nine:
Coach B – at Cranfield University’s accident investigation training department, minus bogies and propped up on what appear to be piles of sleepers. It can be seen in some of their promotional videos.
Coaches C (shop) and K (first class driving car) at the Avanti (formerly Virgin) training centre in Crewe.
I found some photos online of Coach C soon after the accident, and again after preparation for training use, and it was actually quite badly damaged on one side, with one leading corner stove in and the other door on the same side badly bashed, along with other bashes and dents along the bodyside. This no doubt accounts for it ending up like this after repair:
https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/images.locoscene.co.uk/sess/m487_1280610085.jpg
Both passenger doors clearly plated over on that side, along with the gangway. Does anyone know how they did this, given that it’s aluminium which is notoriously difficult to weld? Was it a case of cutting out the damaged bits and cosmetically replacing with steel framework, sheet and filler? Not managed to find any photos of the inside of the vestibule areas to see how it looks there.
That means that only three vehicles now survive from the set of nine:
Coach B – at Cranfield University’s accident investigation training department, minus bogies and propped up on what appear to be piles of sleepers. It can be seen in some of their promotional videos.
Coaches C (shop) and K (first class driving car) at the Avanti (formerly Virgin) training centre in Crewe.
I found some photos online of Coach C soon after the accident, and again after preparation for training use, and it was actually quite badly damaged on one side, with one leading corner stove in and the other door on the same side badly bashed, along with other bashes and dents along the bodyside. This no doubt accounts for it ending up like this after repair:
https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/images.locoscene.co.uk/sess/m487_1280610085.jpg
Both passenger doors clearly plated over on that side, along with the gangway. Does anyone know how they did this, given that it’s aluminium which is notoriously difficult to weld? Was it a case of cutting out the damaged bits and cosmetically replacing with steel framework, sheet and filler? Not managed to find any photos of the inside of the vestibule areas to see how it looks there.
