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The 153's are awful - they are conversions of the 2-car class 155 sprinter sets (an extra cab was added on the inner ends). The main problems I have with them are with the seating - I'm just under 6ft and my knees end up jammed against the ribs in the back of the seat in front, said seats are also very cramped (no elbow room at all) and poorly padded. Add in the fact that shorter people can't see out, and the noise, and I suspect the real intention behind them is to encourage road use! The older DMUs were a lot nicer - still noisy at times but far better seating and if you were lucky enough to bag a seat at the front of the lead car it was almost as good as a cab ride - you could watch the line ahead over the driver's shoulder. Luckily plenty of survivors can be found on preserved lines nationwide. <br /> <br />I'm not aware of any problems with the HST beyond age - Virgin got rid of their fleet when they bought new Voyager and Pendolino sets hence the mothballed examples. A few power cars and trailers have moved to other operators but there are still plenty of spares. The real problem is one of cost - a HST has two big power units and is designed to run at around 100mph, so operating them on a branch line would cost a fortune and might well cause problems with the power cars over time due to the repeated stopping and slow overall speeds. It would be rather like trying to drive an F1 car through city traffic!
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