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Originally Posted by Foghut
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.... |
I have to agree with Foghut here, 170s are pants at acceleration, so much so that my sister, who knows nothing about trains, commented, at the time, that 'those new trains are slow, my train [2x319] overtook one at Elstree [northbound]'. Ofcourse there is no accounting for signals, but given that the 170 would have left STP before her train left KXTL there would have to be an 08 in front of it!
Why MML ever selected those units I will never know, and then to pick a slightly longer 222, with fewer seats per coach, the mind boggles.