THE FIRST OF SCOTRAIL’S CONVERTED CARRIAGES FOR CYCLES AND LARGE SPORTS EQUIPMENT IS NEARLY COMPLETE
First converted carriage: No 153377 outside the shed at Brodie Engineering’s Kilmarnock facility.
PHOTOS COURTESY SCOTRAIL
Travel by train for leisure and tourism will play an important role in the railway’s post-Covid recovery. So it was perhaps prescient that even before the current pandemic ScotRail had developed plans to convert five single-car Class 153 DMUs to carry cycles, large luggage and sports equipment for use on scenic routes, supported by Government agency Transport Scotland.