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    HOW A “ ROYAL” EMU WAS SAVED

    Feb 28, 2022 5 minutes
    HOWARD JOHNSTON
    NEIL PULLING
    MIKE LAMPORT

    HER Majesty The Queen sometimes commented how comfortable the First Class seats were in Class 365 ‘Networker Express’ EMUs when she and the royal family travelled in them between King’s Cross and King’s Lynn en route to her winter home at nearby Sandringham.

    Now that the ‘365s’ have been withdrawn, is it just a coincidence that The Queen’s most recent journey to Norfolk was by helicopter rather than by rail? The robust ‘ironing board’ seats in the replacement Class 387s can hardly be appealing for a 95-year-old!

    The working life of the 41-strong Class 365 fleet has been surprisingly short, not least for the one scrapped after the tragic accident at Potters Bar in May 2002 (No. 365526). Despite being the final development of British Rail’s ‘Networker’ family, and the last to be completed at York

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