(06 Oct 2015, 9:43 am)GX03 SVC wrote 156444 went up for refurbishment last month, Bus_User. So its a full 156 refurbishment.
Good review there, mind.
When you say a refurbishment, is it to completely strip the unit down to the bodyshell or is it a refurbishment in respect of the DDA modifications?
Wonder who is paying for this then? I can't imagine Northern paying to do this seeing as they won't have the franchise next year so is it a DFT funding? I'm still led to believe one of the next franchise commitments is to completely refurbish the existing carriages.
On another note, those new CIS(customer info screens) at Prudhoe and Wylam are plain awful and they were not working when I past yesterday, signal problem I think it read. What is it with just the 2 line display also instead of the bog standard 3 line you see elsewhere. Corbridge do have the 3 line displays but that is only because the support for the display was put up earlier in the year.
Better than nothing I suppose and Northern do things on the cheap.
