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ScotRail’s new inter-city look

DURING the process of Abellio taking on the ScotRail franchise it was announced with great excitement that part of the company’s bid included the introduction of High Speed Trains displaced from Great Western operations. These would be deployed on services operating between Scotland’s most important population centres, not only replacing DMUs but also providing extra capacity and comfort.

Having travelled these routes many times in Class 158s and Class 170s but only once in an East Coast HST set, it sounded like a marvellous

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