EAST Midlands Railway (EMR) plans to refurbish its Class 158 and ‘170’ diesel multiple units and Class 360 electric multiple units.
The operator has confirmed a £60 million refurbishment plan that will be delivered in partnership with rolling stock leasing companies Angel Trains, Porterbrook and Eversholt Rail, which own the trains, and Siemens, which maintains the ‘360s’.
Once completed it will mean that EMR will have a fleet of either fully-refurbished or brand-new trains.
EMR said that the Class 360s, which operate between St Pancras International, Kettering and Corby, as well as the EMR Connect and Luton Airport Express trains, will be upgraded with 2+2 seating throughout the trains with a mixture of airline-style and bay seats, luggage racks, charging points and new passenger information systems (PIS). The EMUs were cascaded from Greater Anglia following the introduction of the Class 720s. The value of the work planned for the ‘360s’ is £28m.
Class 170s operate predominately in the East Midlands, although some are rostered to work on the Norwich-Liverpool route. They have been cascaded from ScotRail, Govia
