Patrick Crozier has been on board one of Virgin Trains’ shiny new Pendolinos, and thinks much the same about the interior as I did. Neither of are impressed.
He likes the exterior, though. I’m not so sure; while they’ve spend some effort styling the thing rather than being purely functional like many other train designs. It doesn’t have the style of the Pininfarina-designed Swiss Re460s,though.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I am going to stick with the Pendolino on this one. Does it have anything else on the Re460 and its typical coaching stock?
I’m with Patrick, ref exterior style only of course!