>>2056581My 2p but I prefer the silver/grey livery. This setup seems pretty wasteful, a combination of the worst aspects of DMU + Loco-hauled stock.
>Loco+stock - slow acceleration, no redundancy>DMU - no flexibility, fixed sets.One way they could make it better is to have a battery and powered bogie on the DT acting as a regen brake and booster to get near line speed.
In an ideal world, the Chiltern Mainline is electrified and uses EMUs instead.