Sad Sprinter
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The 360s found use elsewhere, and the 379s would have done sooner if demand hadn't collapsed on GTR.
Is it really any different to Avanti displacing Voyagers by taking on 805s and 807s, or WMR displacing 170s by taking on 196s? Where is the concern that either of those fleet replacements were wasteful?
Voyagers should never have been built anyway. I’m all in favour of replacing diesel with electric.
I’m afraid I have no idea what a class 196 is, I haven’t really kept up with the 3rd gen stock.
I think the difference with the examples you gave is that the 379s were less than 10 years old and now have nowhere to go. To me that’s a waste.