From the guard's van

Those are two words we never thought we would see together, but Porterbrook have seen fit to refurbish a class 144 to see what could be done to bring them up to date. This has involved a toilet for the handicapped and new high backed seats. Not sure what they have done to ensure that the wheelchair could get into the train in the first place. This is bad news as it suggests that it is in someone's mind that these rattling "nodding donkeys" could have their lives extended even beyond their 30 years. But then this is only the North of England and not even a marginal constituency.  144012 stands at platform 8 in York station with a Harrogate train... under overhead line which is never used.