What will replace the Mk3 sleeper coaches?

[jopsuk]

With the GWR fleet I reckon if they're replaced there will be something of a tussle between charter fleet owners for the three BUOs- the only passenger carrying brake vehicles in the entire Mark 3 carriage build.

 

[jimm]

Maybe GWR could get a few at a knock-down price for the Night Riviera fleet?!

Don't think there would be anything knock-down about it.

The 'inactive' coaches in Canada are little more than empty bodyshells with bogies that were acquired by Via Rail as a job lot with the rest of the Nightstar stock - the Nightstar plan was abandoned in the middle of the production run - so you might just as well go to CAF and ask them what a follow-on run for more of the new Scottish sleeper stock will cost.

But that will have to wait until the GW franchise comes up for renewal in 2019, when I expect bidders will be asked to offer options for the Night Riviera, including new stock or fitting power doors to the Mk3s.