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RE: Arriva Rail North

(22/01/2016 16:41)wirralbus Wrote:  I think the Class number will really depend on what numbers are available for the coaches as they do not like to have numbers for the coaches which are too closely aligned with locomotive numbers .

With so many new classes coming online soon or in the near future the rolling stock library will make interesting reading .

The new Desiro City (Class 700/707), Aventra (Class 345/710) and A-Train (Class 800-802) units will all have six digit carriage numbers instead of five - so there's more than enough carriage numbers available when class designations are assigned. Class 190 seems a reasonable assumption for the Civity UK DMUs considering the last few new DMU types (Coradia and Pennine Desiro) to enter service in the United Kingdom have all been Class 175, Class 180 and Class 185 respectively - with no class designations in between those currently in use

For EMUs it could be anything really. If it was a 3xx number (which I think it probably will be) I'd guess at Class 335 myself. Don't think it'll be too long before we find out anyway