Class 318 Refurbishment

Class 318 C6X Refurbishment

HSBC Rail (UK) Ltd

This fleet of 21 x 3-car sets went through a standard C6 overhaul plus a full refresh. The key feature of this project was the removal of all of the cab end gangways and creating a cost effective full width cab utilising only the existing cab, guard's seating area and redundant gangway envelope. This combined with a new cab desk provided a more modern spacious full width cab and provided room to fit an electronic destination indicator in the new centre screen.

Key Features:

• Interior & exterior repaint
• Full body strip, corrosion inspection & repair
• Full width cost effective cab
• Installation of PIS (including PASCOM systems), destination indicators & OTMR
• New extended life floorboards
• New floor coverings
• All new moquette
• Restyled luggage racks (by glazing originals)
• Hand pole restyling
• New lighting
• Utilisation of LED lighting on new cab desks & marker lights (improving reliability)
• RVAR compliance where practical
• Reliability improvements

This ongoing work lead to a cascade of similar work on HSBC Rail's Class 321/9, which had, all the same features apart from it already had a pre-existing full width cab. Additional features were: -

• Cab air conditioning
• Award winning cycle storage area

On a similar vein, the Class 322 had all the same features with the exception that the cycle area this time was a flexible zone which could be utilised for cycles, disabled space or a seating area (utilising tip-up seats).