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• Phil

  15 November 2008, 13:29:12

  Ooooh....

  I hope that that coach was not built by the same Leyland National who made the horrible buses i use too work on!!!

• peter Cummings

  15 November 2008, 20:00:02

  The very same. At the time, a modular coach body on a re-used underframe was seen as some sort of way forward in dire times.

  We can't but be truly grateful that squadron production never happened.

• Dave Coxon

  24 May 2009, 20:55:09

  This coach was borne out of the Leyland railbus project and was put into service for passenger evaluation on the Manchester-Brighton route in c1983. Unfortunately it was compared unfavourably with the much higher specification InterCity stock and following press criticism was withdrawn fairly quickly after its introducton

• Jon Horswell

  25 May 2009, 15:12:05

  I cannot believe that people seriously thought that this would work on the Brighton - Manchester InterCity route and also that it was a good idea!

• Dave Blacksmith

  25 May 2009, 15:20:41

  its a pile o crap, like all the other railbuses!

• Andrew Harvey-Adams

  25 May 2009, 18:11:58

  It was also used time to time on a normal inter-city departure from Euston. I used to ''commute'' into Euston at that period ,and that is where I first saw it. Given time I could prob. go back to my records of the time to find exact date etc

• Jon Horswell

  25 May 2009, 18:59:24

  What was the given top speed for this vehicle?

• Dave Birchall

  26 May 2009, 15:42:27

  100 mph IIRC

• Rob Morel

  26 May 2009, 19:58:01

  1960 vintage mark 1 underframe ex 21234 a bck ( corridor brake composite) 100mph

• kev smith

  26 May 2009, 20:31:37

  at a time when new stock was needed, this was i think an innovative idea, like all innovative ideas some succeed some fail.

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