gg1
Established Member
As a teenage 'spotter between 1987 and 90(ish), I used to regularly travel around the midlands using West Midlands day ranger tickets. I was always drawn to loco hauled services which in that area at that time meant cross country and WCML Inter City services. I remember that most standard class coach seating was either 1970s blue or 1980s red but I do remember a few mk2 aircon coaches which had a grey seating moquette not dissimilar to the current Chiltern one.
Despite extensive googling I've never seen a pic of the grey seating so I'm guessing only a small number of coaches were so fitted. IIRC they were predominantly used on the internal WCML services from Birmingham to the north west/Scotland, they may have appeared on cross country services but were definitely never used on London services.
Does anyone have any info and/or pictures of this seating, were they perhaps an experimental moquette which was not widely adopted? I always thought they looked a lot classier than red or blue.
Despite extensive googling I've never seen a pic of the grey seating so I'm guessing only a small number of coaches were so fitted. IIRC they were predominantly used on the internal WCML services from Birmingham to the north west/Scotland, they may have appeared on cross country services but were definitely never used on London services.
Does anyone have any info and/or pictures of this seating, were they perhaps an experimental moquette which was not widely adopted? I always thought they looked a lot classier than red or blue.
