Peter Sarf
Established Member
According to Underground News 683...
230 001 is 7058+17058+7511
230 002 is 7122+7067
230 003 is 7069+7127
230 004 is 7100+7500
230 005 is 7066+7128
Oh - embarrassment. Yesterday I saw 7048 + 17058 + 7501 in LU livery (well ali' with red doors) from the road near the entrance to Vivarail. Now you are making me think we mis-read or I mis-noted the centre car. Is the centre car of 230001 definitely 17058 ?.
Just saw District Dave's site and my guess is we really saw 17048. What we saw appears to be a re-formed group of coaches (8048 being replaced by 7501). The 8xxx series of unit end-coaches are cab-less so the absence of 8048 makes sense. So is this destined to be a Welsh one ?.
In other news opinion from the Bletchley end is that these 230s do indeed accelerate very well.
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