Class 89 GNER Service

[Helvellyn]

I don’t believe the old “badger” failed because it was a bad loco, but rather because it was overtaken by a better idea which later became the Mk4+Cl91 IC225 formation. That these trains never fulfilled its design potential (140mph and tilt) makes one wonder if the original ECML proposal of Mk3+Cl89 wouldn’t have delivered the same results at a lower cost. We shall never know.

Could have had a Mk 3C which might have looked like the Irish Mk 3s with a Mk 3B style interior in First and possibly a Class 442 style interior in Standard.

 

[hexagon789]

Could have had a Mk 3C which might have looked like the Irish Mk 3s with a Mk 3B style interior in First and possibly a Class 442 style interior in Standard.

I believe something like that was planned with the HST-E project. The Mk3b BFO were ordered specifically for that as a 125mph brake vehicle.