Wivenswold
Established Member
There's no debate, there's no "if" etc- the only units being built with 1st class are the 10 Norwich Intercity FLIRTs- the Stansted FLIRTs will be Standard only, the rural bi-mode FLIRTs will be standard only, the entire Aventra fleet will be Standard only. The FLIRT specification is fully locked down, the Aventra more or less (the bike space configuration was the last item). The only units with a yellow stripe above the windows will be the Norwich ones. No amount of "maybes" or "they shoulds" on an internet forum is changing that!
(Blue stripe above the wheelchair accessible section, green stripe above the bike area, if I recall correctly from the presentations. But yes, yellow above first, as it should be)
I thank you for that observation, this is a thread for discussion on the GA fleet and its developments, so it's perfectly right and proper that the specification is discussed here. However, you are rather overlooking the many reports that GA bosses were thinking about 1st class in Aventras. We also have no evidence of what the "locked-down" specification was, so again, speculation is perfectly okay until we see it. I don't think anyone is suggesting you're wrong, but that doesn't mean it won't continue to be a talking point, especially for commuters on these boards.