Talk:British Rail Class 150

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[edit] Naming convention

There is a discussion about the naming convention to use for articles about British locomotive and multiple unit classes at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (British railway locomotive and multiple unit classes). Your comments are more than welcome. Thryduulf 22:28, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Class 154

I notice that in the table of DMUs, Class 154 links to this article. However, there is no mention of the Class 154 anywhere in the article! I vaguely remember that the Class 154 was a prototype for something with as Class 150 bodyshell: perhaps someone with more knowledge of this could add something (or maybe create a stub article about it). --RFBailey 16:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

  • it was the re-vamped 150 002, with new gearbox etc. Sunil 131.111.36.48 12:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diesel equivalents of Class 317?

I think there should be a mention of at least the end gangwayed units being diesel equivalents of the 317/318/455 series. Sunil 80.189.37.51 03:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

  • They arn't really as such - the equivilent was the class 210 DEMU, the 150 does however share the Mark 3 bodyshell. --Enotayokel 15:38, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Well, make that Diesel Mechanical equivalent then! That picture of the Anglia unit at Cambridge does look strikingly similar to the 317s that are stalwarts on the London services. Of course, they never built 4-car 2nd-Gen DMUs... Sunil 131.111.36.48 18:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unique door controls in Class 150s

I have added a section in the article outlining the unique square blue passenger door controls on Class 150s that are rapidly being replaced. I intend to add to this with a shot I took of these buttons using a camcorder on a York to Leeds via Harrogate service (currently using Class 150s that still have these buttons). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BenjaminWWHughes (talk • contribs) 21:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC).