Other Juniper EMUs

Class 334

334003 at Glasgow Queen Street Low Level 1st September 2006

40 class 334 units were built between 1999 and 2001 for Scotrail / Strathclyde Passenger Transport. These units use a.c. 25kV overhead pickup and are three car units. Four axles are motored. They are formed DMSO - PTSO - DMSO, unlike the class 458 there are no corridor connections between units and seating is 2+2 in the driving cars, 3+2 in the centre trailer. The PTSO contains one wheelchair space and a disability accessibly toilet. They are painted in the attractive retro carmine and cream livery of Strathclyde Passenger Transport. Although still not the most attractive of front ends the cab front is better looking than that on the class 458!

(above left) 334003 at Glasgow Queen Street low level on the 1st September 2006.

(left) 334010 at Milngavie, in the weather for which Scotland is renown, on 1st September 2006.

both photographs by Mark Ekiert

Class 460
	To replace their original class 73-Mk2f-GLV push pull stock Gatwick Express selected eight 8 car class 460 Juniper units. Having d.c. conductor rail pickup these are closer cousins to the class 458. They were built between 1998 and 1999. These units are formed (in order from the London end) DMLFO - TFO - TCO - MSO - MSO - TSO - MSO - DMSO. (L=luggage) Ten axles are motored. Seating is 2+1 in first class and 2+2 in standard. There is a wheelchair space plus disability access toilet in both the TFO and TSO. A third toilet is in the TCO. Like the class 334 there is no corridor connection between units (an unlikely requirement on a 8 car unit!), however to strengthen the connection to aviation the cab fronts are fitted with cosmetic GRP streamline fairings - "nose-cones" - which need to be removed if the unit fails and has to be rescued by a locomotive. Under the nose-cone Scharfenberg couplings are fitted. Gatwick Express sub-leased two former South West Trains class 458 units for use as a reserve train however this never ran in passenger service and the units have now returned to South West Trains. (upper left) Showing its 8 car length to effect, 460006 about to go under Ebury Bridge whilst approaching Victoria on 19th October 2001. photograph by Colin Duff (middle left) A rare view of a 460 without its nose jobs. 460003, before introduction to service, whilst testing without its nose cones at Ockley..... (lower left) .....and Holmwood. photographs by Belgian Marine

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