Talk:British Rail Class 508/Archives/2024/June

507/508

Apart from the fact that the 508s were originally in four-car sets, can anybody please clarify what distinguishes the 507 from the 508? Now that the latter are in three-car sets, is there a good reason why they're not reclassified to all be the same class? The articles don't appear to list any other technical difference such as voltage etc. (I don't know the rules for reclassification, but precedent seems to perhaps exist with the 375/377 classes, where 375s were renumbered after the couplers were changed.) – Kieran T ^(talk) 13:06, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

That's not a question I think you will find an answer to on the talk page, though there's potential to make a section or at least paragraph on this. Wikipedia obviously does not decide how trains are classified, and there is a lot of different history between the two trains that means there is no point in merging them into one article. ChillyDude153198 (talk) 17:03, 14 June 2024 (UTC)