LESS than a year after Class 321s finished serving London Liverpool Street in daily service, a pair of the four-car electric multiple units returned to the station on March 13, to showcase their planned return, which could happen in the very near future.
Still carrying National Express East Anglia colours from their days serving the station, Nos. 321428/429 were used to showcase just what Varamis Rail is all about.
Its business says its plans to serve Central London are quicker and more efficient, cheaper than current methods, directly reduce the carbon footprint of UK businesses, support the clean air strategies of major towns and cities and offer a sustainable alternative not achievable elsewhere.
The operator has been running trains for many months now, initially on the Birmingham International-Mossend route using No. 321334. That ‘321/3’ was the first ‘Swift’ freight electric multiple unit conversion, which its owner Eversholt Rail used as a demonstrator. Unveiled at Wabtec Rail, Doncaster, on July 1, 2021, it
