(26 Sep 2015, 9:57 pm)northern156 wrote HSTs have 8 carriages. Coach A is combined with Coach B; A being the cycle storage/guard's compartment.
TSO x 5
Buffet x 1
FO x 2
Mark 4s should have 9 carriages; sometimes being less in the case of any coach failure etc.
(26 Sep 2015, 10:13 pm)S813 FVK wrote Must be a fairly recent thing then. All of the HSTs that i have seen have had 9 carriages.
Train plans as below, both HST and Class 91 having 9 carriages each on East Coast, however I think on East midlands they only have 8.
HST
https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/gl...015-dl.pdf
Class 91
https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/gl...15-dl1.pdf