On Jun 2, 12:02*am, D7666 wrote:
On Jun 1, 11:23*pm, TheOneKEA wrote:





On Jun 1, 4:27*pm, D7666 wrote:

On Jun 1, 5:17*pm, Jamie *Thompson wrote:

Well, there was mooting that if demand continues to rise then we might
see 5-car trains

In a different presentation on ELL , 5car 378s are not permanently
ruled out, even on the ELL itself.

Cue stage left uk.r protests *...

... anyway the 2 people giving the presentation were the top projects
bods from LU and NR and 5car with SDO is a possibility.

That at least implies that the manufacturing components needed to
build more Class 378 bodyshells haven't been reconfigured, which is
good news if a whole new set of units needs to be built.

Not necessary ... re-form 378 and turn the present 4car units into say
3car and 5car and make enough 5car units for the ELL., and acquire
something else to make up the loss and/or expand other LOROL routes.


Any 3 car units would only really be of use on GOBLIN (and would
probably need lengthening soon afterwards anyway), all the other LO
routes need at least the 4 car units already in use, but 2 x 3 car
units would need more units anyway.

You could just order a fifth car, of class 379 exterior design, for
the current units and add some more 5 car units (with class 379
exterior/doors) onto the order, it shouldn't be too expensive to
replace the coach ends with the wider ganway version needed for
interiors like the class 378s.