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Old 13th April 2009, 12:31
hairyhandedfool hairyhandedfool is offline  
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Wikipedia seems to suggest it is true, I would suggest that their use on AC lines is the reason they are 365s rather than 465/3. Think of any unit introduced by BR and they tend to follow the trend below.

1xx - DMU
2xx - DEMU
3xx - AC Equipt EMU
4xx - Southern region DC only EMU
5xx - Non-Southern region DC only EMU.

The only exceptions I can think of are the 508s (which were initially put to work south of London) and possibly the 365s which were then used by Connex (did they have pans?).

The only other exceptions I can think of are much more recent, the 375/6/7 Electrostars, some of the 377s are dual voltage, the rest have only DC equipment.
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