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CHILTERN RAILWAYS

ROLLING STOCK

Class 121

This unit usually works Aylesbury - Princes Risborough Peak Hour shuttles during the Monday to Friday working week.
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Class 121 No. 121020 at Aylesbury . (c) Peter Skuce.
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Class 121 No. 121020 at Quainton Road. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The refurbished interior of Class 121 No. 121020. (c) Peter Skuce.

Class 165/0

Chiltern Railways Class 165/0 Refurbishment

* Application of Chiltern Railways blue and white livery
*  Installation of EAO series 56 ‘easy to see, easy to press’ yellow circular LED Passenger Door Control buttons
*  Replacement of rubber floor with new ‘easy to clean’ smooth vinyl flooring
*  Repainted grab poles and new seat top hand grips
*  New dado side panels and repainted wall ends
*  Retrimmed seat moquette into new moquette trim
*  The seats in the outer ends of the vehicle were replaced by new high back seats to the 2+2 layout

* Installation of wheelchair parking area in the DMSO vehicle, located by the toilet
* The toilets were refurbished with new flooring, dado panels and ceiling
* All windows and hoppers replaced by new full length and width windows due to new air cooling equipment
* Installation of air cooling equipment
* Replacement of original ceiling mounted Passenger Information Displays with LED Passenger Information Displays
* All overhead luggage rack tips painted
* Installation of improved interior saloon lighting diffusers
* Replacement of ‘warm white’ fluorescent tubes with brighter ‘cool white’ fluorescent tubes
* Repainted ceilings

The refurbishment work took place at Railcare Wolverton Works.
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Refurbished Class 165/0 No. 165007 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Refurbished Class 165/0 No. 165024 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The interior of the refurbished saloon. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The interior of refurbished saloon, showing the wheelchair parking place. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Refurbished Class 165/0 No. 165014 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Refurbished Class 165/0 No. 165032 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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A half internal view of refurbished Standard Class accommodation aboard MSO vehicle. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The interior of refurbished Standard Class accommodation aboard MSO vehicle. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Recently mechanically overhauled Class 165/0 No. 165034 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Class 165/0 No. 165037 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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A pair of Class 165, No. 165017 and No. 165018 at Aylesbury. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Class 165 No. 16016 at Aylesbury Vale Parkway. (c) Peter Skuce.
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Refurbished Class 165/0 No. 165039 at London Marylebone. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The interior of the DMSO vehicle, showing the location of the wheelchair parking place. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The location of the universal accessible toilet aboard the DMSO vehicle. (c) Peter Skuce.
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The interior of the MSO vehicle, showing the slight alteration to the seating layout. (c) Peter Skuce.

There are twenty eight 2 carriage Class 165/0 Chiltern Turbo DMU trains (165001 - 165028)
and eleven 3 carriage Class 165/0 Chiltern Turbo DMU trains (165029 - 165039).

There is a total of thirty nine Class 165/0 Chiltern Turbo DMU trains.

They were built by BREL York in 1990.

All were refurbished at Ilford during the period 2002 - 2005 with unit No. 165013 being the experimental,
trial prototype demonstrator - however this has since been altered to match the production refurbished units
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Each Class 165 DMU train is powered by one Perkins 2006TWH per each vehicle.

FRANCHISE HISTORY

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Parent company
From
Until
Chiltern Lines / Railways
British Railways Board
01 April 1994
20 July 1996
Chiltern Railways
Management
21 July 1996
02 March 2002
Chiltern Railways
Arriva UK Trains
03 March 2002
21 December 2021

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