Group seeking to purchase a class 317 to convert to a 210 DEMU.

[D365]

According to their facebook today, they have secured a TCO by taking out a loan against it.

 

[Darandio]

According to their facebook today, they have secured a TCO by taking out a loan against it.

I was able to read their posts the other day when this thread appeared as the group was public but today it's private. Strange outfit.

 

[Alanko]

I believe people should be free to donate their money to whatever aspect of preservation they like, if folks don't like a project there are plenty of others.

I should have set up a GoFundMe to 'save' 45015. Free money!

 

[ped316]

There's also a trailer from 317345 in an undustrial park near Reading

Perhaps strip the seats from a 317 trailer at the scrap yard and fit them to something else

Which industrial park is this?

 

[Spagnoletti]

I don't think their projects are going any further than Facebook.

 

[Phil Scott]

Which industrial park is this?

BR 71621 Class 317/1 EMU Trailer Composite Open built 1982

Now moved to Oracle, Thames Valley Park, Reading

 

[pdeaves]

BR 71621 Class 317/1 EMU Trailer Composite Open built 1982

Now moved to Oracle, Thames Valley Park, Reading

Visible here: https://goo.gl/maps/NBUP4DovdeZcDXvy5

 

[315801]

There is an article in the current edition of Rail Magazine on pages 44 & 45 about the class 210 project

 

[boiledbeans2]

The metal hopper vents were a modification after passenger complaints about the trains being too hot on sunny summer days. This was particularly a problem with units that had sat in the carriage sidings between the peaks, where the ventilation system was inadequate for dispersing the heat resulting from solar gain.

Are there photos somewhere of the Class 317 pre-metal hopper modification?

 

[Magdalia]

Are there photos somewhere of the Class 317 pre-metal hopper modification?

I'm wondering if this is a myth that I've fallen for. Looking closely at pictures, 317001 has vents on its delivery run, and most of the pictures I've found of units in store in 1982 seem to have vents, though when they are all properly closed it isn't always easy to tell for sure.

Maybe it was a late modification to the design, though the 317001 pictures suggest that it was before 317001 was first released from York Works.

One possibility is that the Derby built 71xxx trailers did not have them and were modified at York. I don't know if there are pictures of these in transit from Derby to York.

My excuse is that I didn't pay a lot of attention to early class 317 history as it was happening. For me class 317s only became significant when they arrived on the GN, and for a while I paid insufficient attention to that.