The Class 180s were pretty spiffy when they arrived on the scene in the UK just after the millenium & some of them still run the length of the country. But as this video shows, it wasn’t all scones and cream. Many of the onboard systems were poorly designed for resolving faults, but now you too can tell if your Class 180 is on fire when the fire supression system accidentally triggers for no reason, or whether it’s just steam from the fire suppression system spraying the engine.

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