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The first 150 was sent to Hamburg with a load of other BR stock in 1988 for display at the Exhibition centre. I was allowed 3 days as a "steward" - quite hard work - as the unit had come off Canton - it had a good range of Welsh destinations on the blinds , so I regularly changed them round to read exotic places such as Penarth , or Treherbet. A few German hard core types queried where they were , and was happy to explain the Valleys S-Bahn to them