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AFTER a series of setbacks including later than expected delivery, dealing with the respective impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, technical problems involving battery overheating (solved through the fitting of a replacement component) and most recently the collapse of Vivarail (the company supplying them), No. 230010 became the first of the five Transport for Wales (TfW) Class 230s to work a revenue-earning service on April 3.
Following months of testing and training with the fleet, which was also subject to pauses and restarting as a result of the issues, the unit’s first working was the 07.31 from Wrexham Central to Bidston.
Owned by TfW, each of the trains, which have
