Any updates bplease on when and where the five car sets are , also a recent magazine article spoke of ,various improvments to different rail services ( eg four car 170's for XC + refurb for those , could be used it said for longer routes, possibly points north ).
Another cited discussion over replacing the lost set after the awful disaster HST last year, a local rag internet story in Doncaster stated wabtec had received orders for further HST sets for Scotrail? I've not heard anything here , but a magazine article also stated some discussion about future ' lengthening , so a 4 would be 5 , with the 5 sets possibly 6 or 7.
It spoke of speculative routes to Newcastle, York, and leeds ( note this also spoke of lsl's latest set operating a full timetabled service which would also go to Scotland via Settle Carlisle. ( Perhaps the author was confusing the two , as LSL are obtaining more sets,one in BR IC Swallow )
I imagine it's just discussions at the moment, but the additional coaches making sets longer than 4 and 5 cars, I have definitely seen before.
It might be handy for peak services for 6 cars, but no mention of type of extra car , but one could easily imagine a composite 1st, and PRM coach ' TSD ' , also back to the current increase I gather all extras are TSL, surely a 5 car HST would benefit from a composite , eg TFCL .
Anyway if anyone has heard any more on this .
Also a quick question, as I'm not a regular poster , given that its more than 7 cities ' served , is there scope to run a 5 car along to Tweedbank at peak hour services, instead if two 170's, as two of those mean two crews and would have been better as X2 3 car 158 or HST?