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357223 has been refurbished with 2 + 2 seating, new floors and new seat covers, and renumbered 357323.

With these trains coming up to 15 years old and National Express having just gained a new franchise for C2C, this is a good time to start refurbishing the 357s.

Class 357/2 units are being refurbished and renumbered to 357/3.

C2C are to lease 6 x Class 387 units from Porterbrook. These are likely to come from the speculative order that Porterbrook placed with Bombardier, Derby last year.

(14/04/2016 07:40)childwallblues Wrote: [ -> ]C2C are to lease 6 x Class 387 units from Porterbrook. These are likely to come from the speculative order that Porterbrook placed with Bombardier, Derby last year.

On a 3 year lease which will end when a much larger new order for C2C is delivered.

(14/04/2016 10:14)knutstransport Wrote: [ -> ]On a 3 year lease which will end when a much larger new order for C2C is delivered.

According to this website below

http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2016/04/1...-deal.html

There will be 17 4-car sets which will be delivered in 2019.
Does anyone know what class will it be?

The first of the new 387 for C2C is now in build at Derby.

387301 the first for c2c was due to move from Derby to Bletchley for testing today.

Here are a couple of videos of the new class 387/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8_4O_GOLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3TjGJfKImI

Both 387302 and 387303 have been delivered to Bletchley.