Active travel carriage designed for Highland line

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The manufacture for Scotrail’s first stuffed with life gallop carriage has been published.

The carriage is designated for carrying bikes and tall carrying equipment and can simply nonetheless ride along the West Highland Line.

The manufacture on the originate air of the carriage is by Scottish artist Peter McDermott.

It depicts Highland scenery and landmarks along side the Glenfinnan monument and viaduct, Skye Cuillin mountain vary, Ben Lomond, and the fortress on Loch Scare.

Five Class 153 trains are being transformed to construct as a lot as 20 bikes.

Scotrail acknowledged this might perchance perchance additionally simply “give a elevate to” the brand new services on the West Highland Line.

The first carriage is expected to be done later this one year, and can simply nonetheless near into carrier as soon as workers had been trained up.

Tom Smith, of Scotrail, acknowledged: “Peter McDermott’s glimpse-catching manufacture will pay exact homage to the shapely and composed West Highland Line.”

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