(08 Jun 2019, 5:10 pm)Dan wrote

697 - 700 were fitted with Wi-Fi while they were at Deptford, ahead of the service changes taking place on 19 May.

Was a slight change of plan with 697 so this one didn't join Percy Main along with the others - the reasons for this will become clear over the next few weeks - but either way this one doesn't really need Wi-Fi any more.

The NEB fleet list is in the process of being updated (shock horror - what else could I be doing on a rainy day?!) so details of these will be included when I get round to that bit.

There's been a change in stance on the feature symbols so these will eventually be removed from the full fleet. They should, at the very least, have had the ones on the side windows removed, with the harder-to-reach ones on the front destination display not being removed yet. Judging by photos on Flickr, it seems 5235 has certainly had the ones on the windows removed.

Go North East 5235 NK56KHC by Andrew Tyldsley, on Flickr

I noticed the absence of the symbol on 5235's offside when I saw it about an hour or so ago but with the front symbols still remaining, I just shrugged it off as it having had a window put out at some point. I haven't seen any of the other 4 recently, but can judge from this that they will be the same. Ideally should have been done sooner, but if the schedule doesn't allow it...