Date: 30/08/2017

Caledonian Sleeper has revealed the first images of a new £150m fleet of trains to be introduced in 2018.
New features on the trains include key card entry systems, more accessible rooms and on-board wifi.
There are 75 carriages currently being built, which the company said would offer a ^hotel-style experience^.
Details of the new trains are being unveiled on a dedicated website ahead of the launch of the fleet in spring next year.
The sleeper service between London and Scotland is run by Serco, who took over the franchise in 2015.
The new trains will offer more accommodation options - including suites with double beds and en-suite bathrooms.

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Seventy-five new carriages are currently being built and will be introduced in spring 2018.

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An NBL Type 2 waits at Arrochar and Tarbet with a train for Oban in July 1967, as the Fort William sleeper approaches from the north with through coaches for Kings Cross.
Location: Arrochar and Tarbet
Company: West Highland Railway
/07/1967 Colin Miller

The Highland Sleeper calls at Preston on 19 March 2010 with DBS 90036 providing the power. Having changed drivers a few minutes earlier the new man now looks back along the train for the signal to depart just before 0100hrs on the next leg of the journey to Edinburgh.
Location: Preston
Company: Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
19/03/2010 John McIntyre

Royal Scot no 46164 The Artists' Rifleman stands at the buffer stops at platform 7 of St Pancras station on 9 October 1961, shortly after arrival with the sleeper from Glasgow St Enoch.
Location: St Pancras
Company: London Extension (Midland Railway)
09/10/1961 K A Gray

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