378's

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London Overground's fleet of 378's will be getting an additional carriage making it a 5 car unit. Bombardier will be performing the modification to these units and the current rumor is that 1 unit a month will go away for work and a Merseyrail 508 will be coming down here to provide the service.

Seemingly, the LO network is a victim of its own success. I presume planners never expected the line to be as busy as it currently is, lets not mention the Gospel Oak to Barking issues

[class345]

Sure it's not a Merseyrail 508?

[Zippy]

I don't think Manchester have any 508s so it's a good bet it's a Merseyrail one. I see that platform lengthening will also be designed to take 6 car trains in the future too.

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Edited, the 2 always do confuse... Get rid of their 172's and electrify the Barking line! Have heard this is being look at, about time!

[londonboi1985]

will the merseyrail 508 be painted in lorol livery or keep the mersey rail livery

[class345]

I suspect it will keep Merseyrail.

[Deleted]

Not worth giving it a lick of paint, I could understand if it was going to be a permanent thing but its only rented. Plus, Mersey Rail would have to paint it up again when they take it back.

[MonkFish]

Forgive the naivety here but when they rent/loan a train does it work as you would expect? As in does the company pay an amount of money for a period of time?

[class345]

Yes.

[arrivawakefield]

Does anybody know exactly which units are still to be lengthened?

Observations seem to show that all the 378/1s (DC only) are done, but the 378/2s (dual voltage) still have quite a few 4 car sets - 318214 seems to be the highest I've noted as a 5.