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"Recliner" wrote in message
... Yes, I'm talking about the unloved class 458 fleet. I'd not travelled in them before, so I felt I should give them a try while they're still in service. I found that they're surprisingly comfortable — I wonder if Ian Walmsley managed to sneak comfortable seats in when the 458s and 460s were being refurbished to become the 458/5s? I commuted on the 460s for a while when they were new. The seating was their only redeeming feature. Otherwise the interior lighting was very harsh, the announcements and door chimes stupidly loud, and the air-conditioning extremely noisy. At least the journey only lasted 30 minutes if you were lucky. I think the 458s were essentially the same train with another stupid cab end - the original end doors had to be locked OOU when units ran in multiple - and nasty high-density seating. I also used the latest version of the 458s fairly frequently for a while and, as far as I could tell, the 460 seating was retained when the cars were incorporated into the fleet so maybe you were just lucky. -- DAS |
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