ScotRail Class 380 Refresh?

[Alasdair Clift]

This may have been covered already but I just saw on Twitter that ScotRail had retweeted a photo of what looked to be a refresh 380 with new seat covers with leather on the sides similar to the refreshed Greater Anglia 360 interior in first class (although with ScotRail colours rather than GA). Does anyone know anything about this? https://twitter.com/amycobb_/status/1037058094772248577

 

[youngac]

As far as I'm aware there's no interior refurb going on at the moment. These bits of leather on the seats have been in place on some units since last December after ScotRail attempted to fit a first class section on them when they were first introduced on Glasgow - Edinburgh via Falkirk High services. The planned first class section never came to fruition after a negative response to what was going to be offered, but the 380s that were having first class sections prepared kept the leather feature on the seats. I think only a few seats up the front of a small handful of units have this feature.

 

[Alasdair Clift]

Ah right, makes sense now. Didn’t see anything else about it online and don’t see 380s that often so didn’t know anything about it

 

[route101]

To be fair the 380s are generally in good nick and modern for a unit that is 7 to 8 years old.