morning the class 390 pandolino
workhorse of the west coast mainline
we're here early eight o'clock to get
this service up to liverpool but getting
out runcorn to go to witness uh to have
a look at the refurbished pandorino
fleets
heading up the west coast courtesy of
avanti sat in first class at their
invite thanks for having me going to
runcorn being picked up there we'll go
to witness which is the depot where
these pandalino trains uh actually
officially class 390 but everybody calls
them pendlinos built back in 2001 to
early 2000 and they're getting a
complete refresh upgrade to make them as
new i've got a list of things here uh
which i want to check out for example
they've only ever had plug sockets at
the table seat i gather some charging
maybe wireless charging is coming in uh
i think they're doing a thing where one
of the first class carriages is being
turned into a stand glass carriage to
allow more standard class seats will the
toilets change will the shop change what
they're doing to the shop area are the
seats the legroom changing or is that
just like a seat marquette change we're
gonna find out what's different on the
new trains as compared to the old
this is becky from the social media team
inadvertently getting in my shot because
i just got to get this shot i want to
know is when we see the refurb unit is
will the
will the flappy table
still be a thing we're going to find out
welcome on board
west coast service to
liverpool nine street just come for a
quick pier in the shop this is what the
old shop looks like the counters there
food and snacks here there's a lovely
man there called james there hey james
he's doing some stuff there so that's
what the old shop looks like the new
shop apparently is radically different
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lou's wearing the new uniform new
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hi
okay good morning it's a pr man
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bump cap orange ppe we're inside
some discussion as to whether it's all
stomach altitude
we're heading for the trains so we've
got 156 which is inside that's train set
five which is the work in progress one
okay we have train set one five five
which is we'll see outside which is
train set four okay and that is the one
that's nearing completion with 99 five
percent of the way through that one and
just to confirm see if you know your
numbers how many sets of 390s are there
in total out in the network 56 and are
they seven eight or eleven car trains so
nines and elevens thirty five elevens
twenty one nines you know your stuff you
know your numbers i do yes is there
anything i can catch you out on
possibly yes
no the minute not at
so everything is being taken out the
train here for example there's like
there's like a toilet door here just
hanging loose like you do you come down
there's more bits of trains here i was
asking about the
flappy tables earlier i can see there
are some just
just here
about to find out when we go in if these
are new or if they're being put back in
apparently the luggage stacks not
luggage racks
are being replaced as well thomas what
are you doing yeah i'm just going
through some job instructions making
sure that things are getting ready to
stand required
someone said there's like over a
thousand operations that need to be done
for every unit is that right yes that's
correct so if we go into our digital
witness here and then we will find all
of the mis all the wizards go to aware
construction and then it's all listed so
we've got a layman's team of work
instructors that we follow look look
it's the can i touch this is that all
right so that's that's quite heavy
that's the panel which would be in the
door right lit up
that's what they
it's like a three pin dim plug
wow
someone's gonna steal these and take
them home aren't they and have it as a
souvenir cat can i have it as a souvenir
several inside that's not at all obvious
this is one that's been gutted out uh
this isn't what the new ones look like
this is what they look like
as the work is uh progressing
so this one's been a little bit more
emptied uh you can see all the seats are
gone the carpet's gone the same seats
are used we're told by the way but they
um refurbish re-upholster them i i think
we're getting close to the point where
we're gonna see uh one of the more
completed ones
that's the new one going in
if i look up you might think that this
is uh
matt you're not installing a sunroof on
there
this is where the hvac block is okay the
hvac block comes off okay to allow us to
get all the old shop out and all the new
shopping so the easiest way to take the
shop out is through the roof correct yes
i love it and the easiest way to get the
new one in is through the route and
we're outside oh sunshine and we're
heading finally been teasing the whole
video we're heading for 390 155 and we
get to see what the new interior looks
like
i'm so excited i'm going to go
wide-angled lens ready because i want to
get the full
this isn't the same
technical difficulty
i'm ready look how wide that is great
here we go here we go you know what
we're gonna i'm gonna introduce you to
richard here because richard will uh
give us uh an insightful world or two
we've got a new seat maquette here which
is
yeah this is blue and watch this
mr marshall
they've caught up each seat finally
has its own powerpoint these cameras
here
uh is linked to the seat occupancy
software so there's two or three in each
carriage and they can work out whether
people are sat in the seat and then that
links to the screens on the train so
hopefully that will make for a better
experience so when people get on the
train the screen will display where
seats are free
so we have an issue where people reserve
a seat but don't necessarily take the
seat so this is a way to make sure we we
make sure every seat gets used as
efficiently as possible in the
accessible toilet we'll get to the
accessible air itself in a minute it has
been touched up it's not completely
finished yet it's going to get wrapped
but but the balloon remember the balloon
don't mention the balloon the balloon
has now gone the accessible area is in
the same place
looks like a new phone holder there the
table's gone the table will be
back here but the accessible area is
there so richard is now demonstrating
the fact that that two seats had been
removed here one six foot
you can put an entire person
manager in in the luggage space but
genuinely that's that's the thing isn't
it people have often asked for more
luggage space absolutely long distance
yeah so and it's straight in the
carriage you know to speed up less
delays as a result i should make that
should i make my thumbnail just just you
sitting there like that
the same luggage racks up here are the
same the reservation windows are the
same i'm also because it's me i should
report that the the elbow
on the window that's that's the same but
the the new seats are nice you've got
this headrest as well you can lean your
head obviously to the side that's nice
we're in the shop area the shop has
radically changed has it not mapped it
has yes so it's drastically brighter
space now all the big horrible fridges
that are up the one side they've all
gone they were um replacing with the
windows brightening the whole area up
and we've added a window outside as well
okay and we've removed a lot of the big
bulky components out of it and really
streamlined the design for for what it
is okay so brighter better yeah okay
same tea and coffee though same team
coffee same coffee machine same boiler
okay
you can get
now because the microwave will work on
oven um
so yeah yeah same team coffee
we're into first class richard this is
just
what the new first class headrest looks
like
drumroll
right so a quick tour of first class the
seats remember the seats
so this bit this bit like the plastic is
the same but the actual padding the
cushioning here this is all new uh and
upgraded that is lovely and then over
here over here there is one of the
tables in place the table is here so
you've now got a slightly different plug
configuration here and if you can see
down here it's not actually powered on
but can you see
i believe we're getting close to
wrapping up i've spoken to the team here
uh let me see if i can get my head
around this because i meant to do this
thing where they have first-class
carriages but they quite often make a
lot of them standard premium so i
believe they'll correct me if i'm wrong
on an 11 car unit it's going to be eight
always standard and then three which is
two and a half because coach k is like
half uh with while the half the coach k
will always be first and then the other
two can either be first or float as
standard premium and on a nine car unit
it's six and three or six and two and a
half so uh did i get that right perfect
thank you
so that's three ninety one five five
there being done uh one two five it's
out on the network already what avanti
are saying is that uh the whole fleet of
56 trains should be out and completed by
early 2024 if not a little bit sooner
that is it avanti alstom uh thanks for
having us from witness cheshire thanks
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