http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: HST 4 extra spaces - now seen in real life en Tue, 19 May 2026 03:25:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21065#post-362623 Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:40:39 +0000 Tulyar 362623@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/LaidBackBikes/status/1557993457901342720?s=20&amp;t=ScG9EMyTkQaYC_x6UXc_Rw" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/LaidBackBikes/status/1557993457901342720?s=20&amp;t=ScG9EMyTkQaYC_x6UXc_Rw</a></p> <p>Not exactly what I'd have specified as bikes can still roll around &amp; fall over - for same price as wheel-bender wings, you could use Orion Gamma or the Brodie Engineering detail from Class 153's</p> <p>Still 3 pairs of fixed seats replaced by 6 tip up seats giving 3 metres of clear bodyside space to use flexibly</p> <p>This point to be pestered on LNER, TPE and others using Hitachi trains, often with empty seats, and still due a campaign to replace or fix the cracking bolster beams due to yaw damper cyclic overloads* (during which the cycle space changes can be a minor added detail) </p> <p>*Historically relates to 1960's freight train detailments on ECML, when they started running fast on long stretches of CWR </p>