Still wearing its nameplates and crests 45143 '5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards' waits under the grand arch at St. Pancras station leading the 17.00 2G17 service to Bedford. I suspect that commuters making their way home from the capital would have appreciated travelling on this service in a 'proper' coach rather than on a rattly Class 127 DMU that were the mainstay of the stopper and local services. Having said that of course, the Class 127s were fast accelerating units that were actually one of the best incarnations of the first generation DMUs.
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