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Originally Posted by hstudent
170s, like 185s were built for longer distance routes despite the door arrangements and used to be used on Sheffield to St Pancras services before MML decided that a fast accelerating 100mph train was worse than the previous 125mph trains which had poor acceleration.
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Are you suggesting that the MML Class 170s had good acceleration ?
That certainly wasn't my experience. Pulling out of Luton in either direction our 319s left them standing - they seemed little better than HSTs.
Wikipedia agrees...
"The acceleration of the Turbostars was a big let down from an operational point of view. They were originally marketed as being far superior to the HSTs on semi-fast work due to "superior acceleration and braking", but in practice HSTs easily outperformed Turbostars on these sort of services."