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South Kenton Virgin Voyager 2012-07-25--046
South Kenton Virgin Voyager 2012-07-25--046

221115 passes South Kenton with a Virgin West Coast service bound for London Euston.

The class 220 "Voyager" and tilting 221 "Super Voyager" fleets were built for Virgin Trains, to replace its loco-hauled services and HSTs on the Cross Country franchise and on the West Coast franchise to destinations not under the wires; the two franchises were run as one operation. They were also used on a few services which ran completely on electrified routes, usually as part of diagrams which ran on non-electrified routes. The first entered service in 2001.

When Arriva took over the Cross Country franchise in November 2007, twenty class 221 units remained with Virgin. These units then passed to Avanti when it took over the West Coast franchise in December 2019, but Avanti planned to replace them with Hitachi-built class 805 bi-mode units - very sensible given the high mileage operated under the wires by the diesel-only 221s. Of course, this livery became history during Virgin West Coast days when the company introduced a new white livery, while Avanti also introduced a new livery.

Note the Metropolitan Line S Stock train crossing in the background.

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Taken on: July 25, 2012
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Sets appears in:   • Class 220 and 221 "Voyager" DEMUs   
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