Class 395 Refresh

[reecestrains]

I travelled down to London last week and went on my first ever couple of Javelins! I was really impressed with both unrefurbed and refurbed!

395025 was the unrefurbed one I got down to Kent and 395007 was the refurbed one I catched on the way back to London.

 

[Cowley]

Thread reopened for @TT-ONR-NRN to update

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Thanks

Southeastern introduces timetable boost from May with newer trains and more carriages to support a growing railway

A new and improved timetable starting from Sunday 18 May will add extra capacity to provide more space on the busiest services More of the newer Class 377 Electrostar trains are coming in to improve the customer experience. Extra space to help to support 10 million extra journeys over the next...

newsroom.southeasternrailway.co.uk

This press release says the following:

The interior refurbishment of the Class 395 ‘Javelin’ highspeed trains is nearing completion and the first unit with the new external livery is now in customer service alongside a new passenger information system.

 

[Class 466]

Thanks

Southeastern introduces timetable boost from May with newer trains and more carriages to support a growing railway

A new and improved timetable starting from Sunday 18 May will add extra capacity to provide more space on the busiest services More of the newer Class 377 Electrostar trains are coming in to improve the customer experience. Extra space to help to support 10 million extra journeys over the next...

newsroom.southeasternrailway.co.uk

This press release says the following:

395015 is the unit in the 'new' livery (its just some vinyl stickering, no repainting has been done)

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

I’m intrigued to see the PIS.

 

[Class 466]

I’m intrigued to see the PIS.

The original plan would've seen PIS, CCTV & onboard software upgraded at once (to bring the units closer to the 80x software & camera wise) - however any upgraded units would be incompatible with non upgraded ones, I wonder if that element has been dropped or is yet to come as 395015 has worked with other units.

 

[supervc-10]

Is the 'new' livery including a stripe down the side? We overlook HS1 and I noticed a 395 with a silver strip below the windowline recently, wasn't sure if my eyes were deceiving me.

 

[Class 466]

Is the 'new' livery including a stripe down the side? We overlook HS1 and I noticed a 395 with a silver strip below the windowline recently, wasn't sure if my eyes were deceiving me.

That’s the one!

 

[supervc-10]

Thanks @Class 466! I'll have to try and catch one next time!

 

[Doomotron]

The information about the new livery hasn't been very clear I think. I assumed that the Railway 200 livery with all its special decals was a one-off - is that livery going to be put on the rest of the fleet? And if it is, will it be the full R200 livery or just the silver stripe and doors with the new window band?

 

[Class 466]

The information about the new livery hasn't been very clear I think. I assumed that the Railway 200 livery with all its special decals was a one-off - is that livery going to be put on the rest of the fleet? And if it is, will it be the full R200 livery or just the silver stripe and doors with the new window band?

The railway 200 branding is unique to Unit 15 with the rest going gaining all the other branding, including the bizarre “welcome” vinyls inside the doors.

 

[Mikey C]

By chance I travelled in the special unit this evening. The new seat covers look quite smart, with their shades of blue.

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

Here is an image of the replacement LCD PIS being rolled out now that the trains have had the seat cover and grab pole refresh:



As you can see in the background there are also TV style information screens, four per carriage.

 

[Doomotron]

Here is an image of the replacement LCD PIS being rolled out now that the trains have had the seat cover and grab pole refresh:

View attachment 180241

As you can see in the background there are also TV style information screens, four per carriage.

It's as pointless as I imagined. It doesn't even suit the design of the ceiling.

 

[Class 466]

Here is an image of the replacement LCD PIS being rolled out now that the trains have had the seat cover and grab pole refresh:

View attachment 180241

As you can see in the background there are also TV style information screens, four per carriage.

I see they still don’t have anyone doing real software design work for their Passenger information systems. 707s entered service with a slick recoloured version of the Thameslink setup and it was replaced about two months later with the current incoherence abomination. Looks like this will be equally poorly executed.

 

[Bletchleyite]

I see they still don’t have anyone doing real software design work for their Passenger information systems. 707s entered service with a slick recoloured version of the Thameslink setup and it was replaced about two months later with the current incoherence abomination. Looks like this will be equally poorly executed.

The Northern one is also pretty amateur, as is the new TfW one. One can hope that a central GBR body will take a serious look at this sort of thing (and TVM user interfaces, and other customer facing IT matters) as it really is very poor compared with most of Europe pretty much across the board.