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Abellio ScotRail Class 314 Farewell Tour (18th December 2019)

Today (18th December 2019) marks the FINAL day a Class 314 EMU will run in Scotland with passengers. In 1979, BREL built a total of 16 Class 314 EMUs for the new Argyle Line which rubs under Glasgow Central Station and Argyle Street. The trains operated with the existing Class 303 and 311 fleets on the North Clyde as well. The units were delivered in the standard British Rail Blue Grey livery carried at the time, but with “GG TransClyde” branding on the car sides. In the 1980s the TransClyde branding was ripped up and replaced with SPT with a new orange and black livery under the branding “Strathclyde Transport”. After the introduction of Class 320s in 1990 all of the Class 311s and many Class 303s had been withdrawn from service and Class 314s were kept solely to operate on Argyle Line services north and south of the river. Unit 314203 was involved in a fatal Collision at Newton (South Lanarkshire) on 24th July 1991. One of the driving cars was completely destroyed after being telescoped by the oncoming Class 303. To make up for the loss, a Class 507 driving car was displaced from the Merseyrail network to be attached to 314203’s surviving units and continued to operate in service until the unit was scrapped in 2019. In 1995, all of the Class 314s came under the ScotRail franchise as British Rail was privatised, a new Carmine & Cream livery was introduced and became the standard, however one unit, 314202 retained its original SPT livery until late 2006 when it was sent for refurbishment pending the future of the Class 314s. In December 2002, Class 303s were withdrawn from service and subsequently scrapped making Class 314s the oldest EMUs in service with ScotRail. Class 314s were replaced by Class 318s, 334s and then 320s on Argyle Line services (apart from 2015 diversions when they ran to Larkhall via Hamilton.) and found themselves on Inverclyde, Cathcart Circle and later Paisley Canal services in 2012 when the line was electrified. These units by then had passed into the First ScotRail franchise. In 2008, it was decided that the units would be overhauled and refurbished still deciding the fate of the Class. All 16 units were refurbished internally and 5 (203, 204, 208, 211 and 212) received the new ScotRail Saltire livery between 2011 and 2013. This was then followed by 209 and 214 in 2016, by then the franchise was passed to Abellio ScotRail. This mean that the remaining 9 units were the last units to retain the SPT Carmine and Cream livery in regular service as all of the Class 318s by then had been fully refurbished and lost the livery (apart from one MBSO of a Class 303 at Bo Ness.) By this time, the fate of the Class 314 had been sealed. Abellio ScotRail ordered 70 new Class 385 trains of the “AT200” model from Hitachi. Initially built of the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Falkirk service, it was later agreed to build a fleet of 70s to free up DMUs and withdraw Class 314s from service due to having non DDA compliancy. Which is the regulation from 2020 onwards. The first Class 385s entered service in July 2018 allowing Class 314s to be withdrawn. On 21st September 2018, units 207, 212 and 213 were withdrawn from service and sent to Yoker for storage. However, due to brake errors with Class 385s, units 207 and 213 re-entered service temporarily. On 9th January 2019, unit 314202 was towed to Glasgow Works where it was then stripped of spare parts and was the loaded onto a lorry destined for England. It was the first unit of the Class to be scrapped. Class 318s, 320s and 385s gradually were introduced onto Paisley Canal. Inverclyde and Cathcart Circle lines to displace services operated by Class 314s. By December 2019, there were only 6 units left in service, 2 in storage and 8 had been scrapped. 14th December 2019 marked the final passenger revenue earning service for the Class as unit 314216 opened the 1805 Paisley Canal to Glasgow Central service where it was then taken out of service. This video was taken on 18th December 2019 during the Farewell Class 314 Tour. We pass several locations and see various trains passing us. Enjoy!