Date: 01/03/2018

Vivarail has reached an agreement to supply three two-car Class 230 D-Train diesel-electric multiple-units to West Midlands Trains for operation from December on the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Bletchley.
Vivarails D-Train uses aluminium bodyshells and bogies from former D78 metro trainsets withdrawn from service by London Underground.

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D-Trains ordered for Bedford “ Bletchley

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UK: Vivarail has reached an agreement to supply three two-car Class 230 D-Train diesel-electric multiple-units to West Midlands Trains for operation from December on the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Bletchley. Vivarail's D-Train uses aluminium bodyshells and bogies from former D78 metro trainsets withdrawn from service by London ...

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