Deepgreen
Established Member
The 'Railway Centre' web site's 'Picture of the Day' today (5th March) shows WM's 730002 on the main line at Kidsgrove bearing not only no unit number, but no coach numbers either - i.e. completely anonymous. I had thought this was strictly forbidden, and previous new stock has been prevented from running without any form of identification being carried. What is the consensus about the 'legality' of this? It certainly seems pointless not numbering the coaches even if unit numbers might be a later addition. As an aside, the units seem to have pathetically small destination indicators. It can't even fit 'Not in Service' on one line of the display, showing 'Not in Servi...ce' over two lines! What is the point of these almost illegible displays?
