Re: Is it viable ?

["Les Chandra" <les_chandra@asparagus.hotmail.com>]

You are quite correct. I was being simplistic in reply to the suggestion
that MKIII stock is 70s vintage and so must therefore be redundant.

BTW, I thought that MkV was the designator for the abortive WCML IC250 or
whatever it was stock. Have the resurrected the term?

Les


David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> Les Chandra wrote:
> > MKIIIs are the HSTs.
>
> Not all Mk IIIs are HSTs.
>
> > They are the main rolling stock in use on (to name a
> > few) Great Western main line, Midland Main Line,  and whatever Virgin
calls
> > Intercity Cross Country these days.
>
> Mk III loco hauled sets are in use by Virgin Trains and Anglia Railways.
> Virgin Trains also has some Mk II sets, Great Western, MML, Virgin and
> GNER have Mk IIIs in HST sets.
>
> > There are currently plans in afoot to replace most of the HST duties
with
> > modern DMUs, but these are all some time off.
>
> Not quite. There are plans to supplement the HSTs with DMUs. The HST
> replacement is still some years away. Along with the gas turbine
> locomotives will come new cars, provisinally called the Mk V.
>
> Cheers
> David