The Adelante fleet - what if they had remained in the South West?
"On this day" brings up Adelante (class 180) testing at Hull on 14th August 2009 - one of many pictures at
http://www.traintesting.com/Class_180.htmThe Adelante fleet of 14 x 5 car trains was new to Great Western (the old, smaller franchise) around 25 years ago - the turn of the century, at it intesting (and hypotherical) to ask where we would be today if those trains had remained as paet of the franchise / management contract to this day.
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