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Originally Posted by hairyhandedfool
<snip>... and possibly the 365s which were then used by Connex (did they have pans?).
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They were designed to be Dual Voltage, so when they arrived on the Southeastern they were only DC fitted, but there were cupboard voids where the 25kV equipment needed to go. They didn't have pans fitted until they went over to the GN, but I believe that the conversion was a relatively pain free process.
Evidence of the Dual Voltage design was that when a driver cut a 365 back in on the Southeastern he had to remember to press the DC Select button as well, otherwise the train would wake up but wouldn't move. At the time this was the only stock there that required this, and it caused a fair bit of confusion.
In fact just like a class 319 needs nowadays (Hint,hint for any SouthEastern drivers who sign them and can't get the AWS horn to stop
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